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Target 100 : Re-Envisioning Today ’ s Hospital Prototype for Greatly Improved Energy Efficiency , Human Well-Being and Performance
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Loveland, Joel Burpee, Heather Hatten, Mike |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Cost control, maintaining quality healing and working environments, and more sustainable, energy efficient operations are topics of many conversations in healthcare today. The University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab, in collaboration with a team of experts in design, engineering, operations and hospital ownership have developed research directed at much higher performing buildings – targeting both energy performance and interior environmental quality, for little capital investment. This research provides a conceptual framework and decision-making structure at a schematic design level of precision for hospital owners, architects and engineers. It offers access to design strategies and the cost implications of those strategies for new hospitals utilizing 60% less energy and don’t require substantially increased project capital commitment. Two acute care hospital prototypes have been developed at a schematic level of architectural and mechanical systems detail. These two prototype architectural schemes and six energy performance options have been modeled for energy use and cost of construction. Both architectural schemes were able to achieve more than a 60% reduction in energy use from typical operational examples, meeting the 2030 Challenge for 2010. This research and design exercise has shown that there is little cost implication for high levels of energy efficiency with an overall premium of approximately 2% of the total project cost, a premium reconcilable through the prioritization of project specific goals and outcomes at the schematic design phase, or easily recaptured in a short-term simple return on investment. Introduction to the Project and Project Team Funded by the BetterBricks Program of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab with the collaboration with Solarc Architecture and Engineering, TBD Consultants, Cameron McAllister, NBBJ Architects, Mahlum Architects, and Mortenson Construction has developed a body of work that encompasses: 1. Knowledge about the actual operational energy-use characteristics of hospitals in the Pacific Northwest and abroad, 2. Building architectural systems, building mechanical systems and central plant systems design strategies for radically reducing energy use in the hospital sector to meet the 2030 Challenge for 2010, 3. Two prototype hospital configurations that meet the 60% energy reduction goal for the 2030 Challenge, for 2010-2015, 4. Cost implications for these prototype hospital designs. 3-259 ©2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings As part of this work, the group has developed an overall strategy for reducing energy in hospitals by more than 60% in the Pacific Northwest, and these architectural, mechanical and central plant strategies provide a road-map to even greater energy savings. The study of Scandinavian hospital designs illustrate that achieving these aggressive energy goals is possible while simultaneously creating superior interior environmental qualities for patient care and staff retention, and they serve as a model for this work. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://aceee.org/files/proceedings/2010/data/papers/2003.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
