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Vacuum Plumbing for Healthcare Facilities

Vacuum plumbing offers unique features and benefits that make it particularly well suited for healthcare facilities such as outpatient surgical centers, clinics, medical offices, and other healthcare related facilities, such as medical laboratories.

Benefits

A Health Solution
  •  Minimizes spread of bacteria by controlling vaporization of flush cycle
  •  Reduce health and safety risks
  •  Provides protection from waste piping leaks
A Cost Solution
  •  Vacuum toilets use only 1/2 gallon per flush
    (68% less than conventional low flush toilets and flush valves on every flush)
  •  Reduces maintenance requirements
An Environmental Solution
  •  Reduces water consumption
  •  Reduces sewage output
  •  LEED Point Potential Under Water Efficiency Section
  •  Innovative Wastewater Technologies
  •  Water Reduction 20-40%
A Renovation Solution

Addresses concerns with:

  •  Structural limitations
  •  Restrictive site issues
  •  Embedded contaminants
A Construction Solution
  •  Self-venting eliminates roof penetrations
  •  Smaller diameter piping and fittings
  •  Piping can be routed vertically or horizontally
  •  Facilitates an “open architectural” environment
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"Essentially, AcornVac made it possible to do our project in confined space for a reasonable sum, and master control over wastewater from cradle to grave - an impossibility with gravity plumbing… Ninety-five percent of the work was done right within the space. A nice, neat package."

Jim Hudspath
Project Manager
Center for Medical Science

Customers LOVE AcornVac!

Learn from Healthcare Strategist, Randal Brand, how Acornvac systems can make the impossible possible in healthcare facilities. Watch to see our customers share their OWN experiences, in their OWN words.

When I made requests for different things that were not necessarily standard within their product line, they were ready willing and able to come back with the product modifications or the right product to make it work.

— Randal Brand, MBA, RA Healthcare Facilities Strategy Consultant

The training process that AcornVac provides is exceptional. They are ready and willing and they will do pretty much any type of training that the customer desires…

— Randal Brand, MBA, RA Healthcare Facilities Strategy Consultant
 

When I made requests for different things that were not necessarily standard within their product line, they were ready willing and able to come back with the product modifications or the right product to make it work.

— Randal Brand, MBA, RA Healthcare Facilities Strategy Consultant

I’ve looked at hundreds of buildings trying to figure out how to fit medical into them and one of the first things you look at is the plumbing system and you can cross it off and move on. With vacuum plumbing it doesn’t matter what the building is, you will be successful.

— Randal Brand, MBA, RA Healthcare Facilities Strategy Consultant
 

Resources

Article: ASPE Pipeline, April 2012 - "A New Direction in Patient Room Design and Construction"Article: ASPE Pipeline, April 2012 - "A New Direction in Patient Room Design and Construction"View
Case Study: Center for Medical Science (pdf)AcornVac Enlisted to Stop Dangerous Pathogens from Entering the Public Waste Water SystemView
Healthcare Construction and Renovation Without Disruption Flyer (pdf)Healthcare Construction and Renovation Without Disruption Flyer (pdf)View
Clearing the Pipelines for Community-Based Care (pdf)Clearing the Pipelines for Community-Based Care (pdf)View