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Speaking last month in the second in a series of Healthcare Estates Online webinars being staged by IHEEM and Step Exhibitions in the run-up to a Healthcare Estates Digital Week, being held from 5-9 October, Christopher Roberts, Director & Healthcare Solution Architect at Schneider Electric, gave a fascinating insight into Internet of Things technology’s potential to transform how healthcare facilities are run. With access to a wealth of data on everything from patient flow to how comfortable an environment HVAC and BMS systems are creating at different times of day, he predicted that healthcare providers will increasingly not only be able to create a significantly more efficient and therapeutic care environment, but also substantially reduce their energy bills and carbon footprint – for example by ensuring that an operating theatre’s air-handling system is not in use during periods of unscheduled activity. He also highlighted such technology’s advantages in improving conditioned-based maintenance and responsiveness to equipment issues, citing the example of a data centre’s transformer starting to overheat, which, had the IoT technology not warned engineers about, could have resulted in a fire. He cautioned, however, that for such technology’s benefits to be fully realised, embedding the required


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The Carbon & Energy Fund (CEF) will this October publish a new guide, Energy Roadmap for Achieving Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050.


The CEF explained: “Estates has played its part in hitting statutory CO2


targets so far,


with many hospital sites implementing energy-saving schemes – repaid through efficiency savings, and using Salix, Trust, and private capital, but we are not on target to hit 2030 statutory targets.


Infrastructure upgrades take time, and have a 15-25 year life, so, looking beyond 2030, the next step in any infrastructure upgrade has to be ‘2050-ready’.


“The National Grid has adopted renewable energy at pace, but the government’s 2050 net zero carbon target is unachievable via electricity decarbonisation alone. The biggest challenge is decarbonising heat, especially as the average hospital is fossil fuel-reliant. Many sites operate ageing high temperature infrastructure, including steam, with poor efficiency through pipe losses and unrecovered


condensate. Crucially, high temperature heat has limited ability to incorporate low carbon heat sources. What are these, and what upgrades will best drive savings to give cash revenue and viability? “The good news is that there is a roadmap and strategies ready to utilise the Treasury’s green funding boost. The new CEF guide outlines the roadmap for CO2 neutrality through achieving progressive carbon reduction before 2030. These compliant stages towards decarbonisation start with a minimum primary stage (level 1), through to more progressive decarbonisation (level 2), that can also be started now, and which move a Trust further towards a future net zero (level 3) position by 2050. Sites that have embraced level 1 compliance, but retained steam, should move to LTHW now, and Trusts looking to upgrade now, for the first time, need to skip level 1 and move to level 2.”


For a copy of the guide, visit www.carbonandenergyfund.net, or email admin@cef.net.


infrastructure will need to considered early in the construction process. Equally, there remains considerable scope to further ‘educate’ architects, contractors, and engineers, about the advantages that more ‘connected’ buildings can bring. During the ‘lockdown’, webinars such as the Healthcare Estates Online digital events, which continue this month and next (see pages 7-8 and www.healthcare-esates.com), have provided a great way for the healthcare engineering and estate management community to stay in touch with the latest developments. Last month Health Estate Journal launched its own supplier-led webinars (see page 11) – which will continue over coming months – with Jason Cox, Energy Upgrades leader at Armstrong Fluid Technology, explaining how the company works with healthcare facilities to devise strategies that enable them to ‘intelligently upgrade’ HVAC equipment. Next to present, in an HEJ webinar this month, will be Courtney Thorne, while in September, Beacon Medæs will be the host. Keep an eye on the HEJ website and Linked In for further details and information on registering.


Jonathan Baillie I Editor jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


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