Benefits
Maintaining precise humidity levels in hospitals and healthcare environments has many benefits. It improves health and comfort, safeguards medical equipment and materials, and contributes to a stable, hygienic indoor climate.
Healthy outcomes
Appropriate humidity reduces infection risk, supports healing and ensures patient comfort.
Protect equipment
Humidity control prevents static and damage to sensitive medical devices and materials.
Tailored solutions
Custom humidity control for each hospital zone - from ICUs to surgery rooms and burn units.
Stable Humidity for Infection Control and Patient Wellbeing
Humidity plays a vital role in every healthcare setting—from operating rooms and intensive care units to laboratories and patient rooms.
Dry air increases the risk of infection and causes discomfort, while excess moisture promotes microbial growth. Condair systems maintain 40–60% RH to provide safe, hygienic, and comfortable conditions that protect patients and staff. The result is a stable, healthy indoor environment that supports faster recovery and improved clinical outcomes.
Dry air increases the risk of infection and causes discomfort, while excess moisture promotes microbial growth. Condair systems maintain 40–60% RH to provide safe, hygienic, and comfortable conditions that protect patients and staff. The result is a stable, healthy indoor environment that supports faster recovery and improved clinical outcomes.
Tailored Humidity and Temperature for Every Hospital Zone
Different areas within a hospital require precisely controlled indoor climate conditions. Operating rooms typically maintain 40–60% relative humidity at 68–75°F (20–24°C) to reduce the risk of infection and ensure surgeon comfort. Intensive care units (ICUs) and neonatal units also benefit from 40–60% RH, as it supports patient breathing and helps prevent the drying of mucous membranes. Burn units often operate with significantly higher humidity levels—up to 90% RH—to promote wound healing and improve patient comfort. Laboratories and hospital pharmacies rely on controlled humidity to ensure accurate test results and the stable storage of reagents and medications.
Condair’s flexible portfolio of humidifiers and dehumidifiers—including adiabatic, steam, hybrid, and desiccant systems—can be tailored to the specific requirements of each department, helping healthcare facilities maintain compliance with hospital hygiene standards.
Condair’s flexible portfolio of humidifiers and dehumidifiers—including adiabatic, steam, hybrid, and desiccant systems—can be tailored to the specific requirements of each department, helping healthcare facilities maintain compliance with hospital hygiene standards.
Proven Reliability and Comprehensive Support
Condair's humidifiers and dehumidifiers are designed for maximum reliability, hygiene, and seamless integration into critical healthcare environments.
Compact units and modular installation options make them ideal for space-constrained areas, including rooftops and mechanical rooms.
Condair supports every stage of a humidity control project—from system design and specification to installation, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance. This helps ensure consistent performance and compliance with hospital standards and regulations.
Compact units and modular installation options make them ideal for space-constrained areas, including rooftops and mechanical rooms.
Condair supports every stage of a humidity control project—from system design and specification to installation, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance. This helps ensure consistent performance and compliance with hospital standards and regulations.
Dehumidifiers and Dehumidification for Hospitals
High humidity can cause condensation on cold surfaces, promoting the growth of mold and bacteria and increasing the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). It can also accelerate the degradation of pharmaceuticals and sterile supplies.
Certain healthcare applications may require active dehumidification to achieve particularly low humidity levels. For example, some surgical procedures require drier conditions to optimize surgeon performance and maintain a controlled operating environment.
Condair offers a comprehensive range of dehumidifiers to meet the needs of healthcare facilities, including both desiccant and refrigerant (condensing) technologies.
Certain healthcare applications may require active dehumidification to achieve particularly low humidity levels. For example, some surgical procedures require drier conditions to optimize surgeon performance and maintain a controlled operating environment.
Condair offers a comprehensive range of dehumidifiers to meet the needs of healthcare facilities, including both desiccant and refrigerant (condensing) technologies.
Humidifiers for MRI and CT scanners
MRI suites are tightly controlled, air-conditioned environments and can often experience low humidity. Without humidification, dry air can cause discomfort for patients and staff while increasing the risk of electrostatic discharge (ESD). Static electricity can damage sensitive electronic equipment and may affect imaging performance.
MRI manufacturers typically specify a humidity level of approximately 50% RH ±5% to help protect equipment, prevent component degradation, and maintain image quality. This recommendation is also supported by ASHRAE Standard 170.
Steam humidifiers are commonly used in MRI suites and are typically installed in the equipment or control room adjacent to the scanner room to avoid the strong magnetic fields within the MRI environment. Condair offers a wide range of steam humidifiers that are ideal for MRI and CT imaging applications, along with expert guidance to help healthcare facilities select the appropriate system for their requirements.
MRI manufacturers typically specify a humidity level of approximately 50% RH ±5% to help protect equipment, prevent component degradation, and maintain image quality. This recommendation is also supported by ASHRAE Standard 170.
Steam humidifiers are commonly used in MRI suites and are typically installed in the equipment or control room adjacent to the scanner room to avoid the strong magnetic fields within the MRI environment. Condair offers a wide range of steam humidifiers that are ideal for MRI and CT imaging applications, along with expert guidance to help healthcare facilities select the appropriate system for their requirements.
Use Cases
Humidification Boosts the Immune System
Controlled humidity in buildings protects the self-cleaning function of the mucous membranes, reduces the risk of infection and strengthens the immune system. Dry air promotes respiratory diseases. Additional humidification ensures healthy indoor air and strengthens the immune system.
Humidity Reduces Respiratory Infections
Optimal humidity reduces the risk of respiratory infections, shortens the lifespan of viruses, inhibits the spread of infectious viruses through the air and protects against colds, flu and COVID-19.
Discover Condair in action
Lapland Central Hospital
The patient-oriented hospital complex serves the residents of all of Lapland. In planning and construction, the minimization of the ecological footprint and the overall economy of investment and use were taken into account. The construction was on-going between 2019 and 2023. Condair supplied steam generators for the ventilation of operating rooms, special patient rooms and imaging rooms. The facilities in question require reliable and accurate temperature and humidity control, which Condair RS resistive steam humidifier offers. Images: Lapin hyvinvointialue, Jarno Niemi
Hospital CUF Tejo
Dunkerque Hospital Center
The Dunkerque Hospital Center is a public healthcare facility located in Dunkerque, serving a large population across the coastal area. It offers an extensive technical platform, including CT scan, MRI, surgical units, and a clinical research department. The hospital provides care across a wide range of specialties such as medicine, surgery, neonatology, obstetrics, oncology, intensive care, and rehabilitation. The facility is certified at Level A by the French Haute Autorité de Santé, reflecting its quality standards. It plays a key role within the Dunkerque Territorial Hospital Group, working closely with other regional healthcare institutions.
Pasteur Institute of France
The Pasteur Institute is an internationally renowned biomedical research center, distinguished across numerous disciplines. By deciphering the fundamental mechanisms underlying life, its researchers contribute to advancing scientific knowledge and improving human health, leading to cutting-edge medical applications.
Turkey-Albania Fier Friendship Hospital
The hospital, which was completed in 68 days and was put into service, has 6 operating rooms as well as 20 intensive care units, 130 service beds, biochemistry, microbiology laboratories, MRI, tomography, mobile x-ray machine, colonoscopy, endoscopy, laparoscopy and angiography. When the hospital serves at full capacity, a total of 387 healthcare personnel, 56 of whom are Turkish and 331 Albanians, are planned to work and the joint operation period of the hospital, which will be jointly operated by Turkey and Albania for 3 years, will be extended every year with the mutual consent of the parties.
Banner Ironwood Medical Center
Banner Ironwood focuses on providing outstanding care and an unparalleled patient experience through the latest in medical technology, a vision of compassion, and a concentration on patient and employee safety.
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bendigo Hospital
Canberra Hospital
Canberra Hospital is the largest district hospital in the Australian Capital Territory. Multiple Condair RS humidifiers were installed to maintain an optimal environment in the hospital. A resistive steam humidification system such as the Condair RS enables Canberra Hospital to carefully control the humidity levels in its facilities. Not only does an optimal humidity level provide a comfortable environment for staff and patients, it critically reduces the likelihood of infection and spread of viruses and also lowers the potential for electrostatic shocks.
Cochlear
Cochlear is the global leader in implantable hearing solutions with products including cochlear implants, bone conduction implants and acoustic implants. Cochlear's global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney. Cochlear implants use a sound processor that fits behind the ear. The processor captures sound signals and sends them to a receiver implanted under the skin behind the ear. The receiver sends the signals to electrodes implanted in the snail-shaped inner ear (cochlea). The signals stimulate the auditory nerve, which then directs them to the brain. Cochlear implants are assembled under a microscope at the company's factory cum campus at Macquarie University in Sydney, with implants sent to a small, sealed room for the key manufacturing process. There, a laser welder runs round the outside of the titanium implant case, protecting the electronic components with a hermetic seal. The company has manufactured more than 600,000 implantable devices, helping people of all ages to hear. Cochlear has a significant international footprint, selling in over 200 countries, and a global workforce of more than 4,000 employees (2020). Cochlear invests more than AUD$180 million each year in research and development and currently participates in over 100 collaborative research programs worldwide.
Frankston Hospital
Frankston Hospital provides healthcare services to residents on the outskirts of Melbourne. Several Condair RS units have been installed on the site. These resistive steam humidifiers ensure that conditions are kept to an optimal level. Humidification in hospitals not only provides a more comfortable environment, it also lowers the risk of airborne transmission of viruses. Humidity control also significantly reduces the risk of electrostatic shock from medical equipment and instruments.
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital
Liverpool Hospital
Liverpool Hospital is located in the south-western suburbs of Liverpool, New South Wales and is 50 minutes away from the Sydney CBD. It is the largest hospital in New South Wales and one of the leading trauma centres in Australia.
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