by Rebecca Walker — May 11, 2009— Consulting firm Environmental Health & Engineering has announced its new Hospital Energy Performance Service, saying it can help hospitals analyze and improve their energy systems to make them more efficient by 25 percent or more.
The service measures hospitals’ current operations, including equipment, to find out where inefficiencies can be fixed. Some of those inefficiencies come about due to hospitals being modified to meet equipment and service requirements, with the facilities focusing on maintaining services, and not looking at how to optimize energy use.
The first phase of the Hospital Energy Performance Service creates a profile of the building’s systems, identifying where improvements can be made, and suggesting low-cost and no-cost actions that have a return on investment of less than a year. The second phase takes a more detailed look at engineering to find more complicated areas that could be improved. And the final phase prioritizes and corrects equipment and systems that can be made more efficient.
The service can focus on specific systems, areas of buildings or the entire building itself.
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