CARBON REDUCTION
Carbon and energy saving for the Model Hospital
Against the backdrop of the Lord Carter Productivity and Efficiency Agenda, the Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF), with the support and endorsement of IHEEM and HefmA, has put together what it dubs ‘an essential piece of literature for all Trusts’ – A Standards Guide: Carbon and Energy Saving for the Model Hospital. Here David Mackey, director of the Carbon and Energy Fund – which funds, facilitates, and project manages complex energy infrastructure upgrades for the NHS and wider public sector – explains the background to the compilation of, and the key elements within, this key report.
According to IHEEM’s President, Peter Sellars, ‘the economic benefits of investing in energy-related cost-saving schemes within the NHS are well known and understood’. The former director and head of Profession/Policy at NHS Estates & Facilities England, who also recently served as national lead for the Lord Carter EFM Productivity & Efficiency Programme, and is a Trustee of the CEF, adds: “The NHS is already benefiting through the significant carbon and cost reductions that have been delivered by our profession over the last 10-15 years, but, as evidence suggests, there is still a long way to go. To support this next phase of investment, the new CEF publication, A Standards Guide: Carbon and Energy Saving for the Model Hospital, has been developed for the NHS. This document will provide a valuable source of information to estates professionals about both proven and new energy technologies that are suitable for including in future Trust-wide energy strategies.”
Meanwhile, Paul Fenton, national chair of the Health Estates & Facilities Management Association (HefmA), said: “The NHS has had a proven track record in achieving energy savings and carbon reductions over many years, using both innovative and tried and tested initiatives. The challenge now is to encompass the learning and the success it has brought into a consolidated form through the development of this Best Practice Energy Guidance document for the benefit of the NHS and the estates professionals that work within it. The document will provide a concise source of information on new
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The new publication is subtitled ‘Knowledge is power to achieving the Lord Carter challenge’.
and proven energy initiatives, and HefmA endorses its use as essential guidance for any Trust writing its energy strategy and planning for the future.”
Confronting difficult challenges Since Lord Carter delivered his report and recommendations in February 2016 outlining opportunities for efficiency savings and environmental benefits within the healthcare system, the NHS, social care, and public health system has had to confront some difficult challenges to ensure that future investments made have
Rampton Hospital replaced a coal-fired heat plant with a CHP unit and a wood chip boiler. The Trust reduced energy costs by 44%, saving around £790,000 per year, cut 8,614 tonnes of CO2 and now produces significantly less air pollution
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the best possible outcomes for current and future generations. Without doubt, one of the biggest challenges facing all NHS Trusts is energy – whether it be energy infrastructure, energy generation, energy usage, or carbon emissions. In full appreciation of these difficult challenges, IHEEM and HefmA have partnered with the CEF, which will later this year publish an essential piece of guidance literature for all Trusts – A Standards Guide: Carbon and Energy Saving for the Model Hospital. This document, which will be launched within HEJ in the early autumn, and will be widely available thereafter, has had input from all of CEF’s specialist team and suppliers. Covering every aspect of the energy infrastructure upgrade process, the guide will clearly demonstrate the financial and environmental benefits of each energy technology, and the suitability of the various technologies for particular situations.
Structured around a Model Hospital Structured around a ‘Model Hospital’, the guide has been created with exclusive data garnered from more than 40 schemes commissioned by NHS Trusts that are already in commission, under construction, or in the initial stages of sign-up. Independent of all suppliers and pricing, the guide offers detailed information on the broad spectrum of technologies available to use within today’s health estate. All of the information featured has been tested and verified on ‘live’ schemes ranging in value from £1 million to £32 million – not ‘lab tested’, or derived from a sales brochure. As well as examining technologies available now, the guide also looks at those which will be available in the future, and at recent innovations that are starting to become financially viable. Each technology will have its own section featuring a description of the technology; how it can benefit a Trust, what to consider in order to achieve parity across
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