如果要达到可接受的性能，医院手术室必须满足任何室内环境中最复杂的控制要求之一。该研究项目的总体目标是确定和证明控制策略，以减少能源需求，同时不会对手术室内的环境质量产生有害影响。这一目标是通过广泛的文献检索实现的，其中引用了1400多篇引文，通过开发数学和生物物理模型，并通过分析两个具有不同系统性能特征的现有手术室中获得的数据实现的。

Hospital operating rooms must meet one of the most complex set of control requirements of any indoor environment, if acceptable performance is to be achieved. The overall objective of this research project was to identify and demonstrate control strategies that could reduce energy requirements while not producing deleterious effects on the environmental quality within the operating room.The objective was achieved through an extensive literature search in which more than 1400 citations were referenced, through the development of mathematical and biophysical models, and through analysis of data obtained in two existing operating rooms with different system performance characteristics.