[Greenbuilding] Legionaires disease and water temperature

[Nick Pyner]

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Behalf Of John Straube

Here is one of the papers I mentioned on the study of water temperature and electric water heaters in particular and the risk of Legionnaires disease.

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Prof. John Straube, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Dept of Civil Engineering / School of Architecture

Maybe more to the point than studies and Safe Kids Canada media campaigns, is what the codes say. In Australia, storage heaters have a minimum thermostat setting at 60, and tempering valves at 45 are required in all new construction. That has been the law for years and, somewhat ironically, I understand a lot of the research on which it is based came from Canada.


   
Nick Pyner

Dee Why   NSW