CARBON AND ENERGY SAVING
The project team has installed around 1 MW of solar photovoltaics on the roof of the North Tyneside General Hospital.
North Tyneside General Hospital is the site of a complex multi-million pound heat decarbonisation scheme, scheduled for completion in late 2022.
Processing Centre at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital site in Cramlington was a Net Zero development (see text box, page 54), but has also helped support the decarbonisation of North Tyneside General Hospital, since the sterilisation department previously located there was a major steam user. He said: “It’s hoped the successful implementation of this programme at North Tyneside will prove an exemplar of how a working hospital can become much more environmentally-friendly, not just for the rest of the Trust’s sites, but for the NHS nationally.”
Chartered Engineer Owen Cusack, an IHEEM member for the past 25 years, is a Chartered Engineer who has been with the Northumbria Trust for 21 years. He previously worked at hospitals including London’s Great Ormond Street, Guy’s and St Thomas’, and Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals. Originally a marine engineer, his current role sees him involved in major capital projects, and especially those involving ‘more intense’ M&E services installations. His most recent previous major project for the Trust saw him project manage the construction of the new Central Sterile Services Department at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH). He elaborated: “In the
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project, which we completed in May 2021, we centralised the CSSDs from North Tyneside General Hospital and Wansbeck General Hospital into a single new building on the Cramlington site. It was a Zero Carbon project, all electric – harnessing all the usual technologies – heat pumps, heat recovery, etc.” His colleague, Chartered Energy Manager, Michael Blades, has been with the NHS for 19 years, 15 of them with the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. As Energy and Sustainability Officer, he looks after all the Trust’s ‘sustainability paths’ and ‘energy engineering’ to meet the decarbonisation targets. A former IHEEM North-East Branch Chair, he is also involved with the Energy Institute and CIBSE.
Involvement in previous ‘Green Plans’ Before we discussed the heat decarbonisation scheme in more detail, and with such plans extremely topical, I asked both gentlemen about the Trust’s Green Plan. Michael Blades said: “Northumbria Healthcare completed its first Sustainability Management and Implementation Plan soon after its establishment 12 years ago, very much on its own initiative. We have since run two consecutive five-year Sustainability Management Plans, and have just released our current three-year Green Plan, which has been slightly more challenging – due
The project includes de-steaming the North Tyneside General Hospital – removing the three existing steam boilers (two of which are 45 years’ old, and the other 21 years’ old) and all the steam pipework
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The Energy Centre at North Tyneside General Hospital. Three ageing boilers within it, and the hospital’s steam distribution system, will be removed and replaced by an extensive network of low- temperature hot water pipes.
to the emergence of Integrated Care Systems. With the NHSE/I ‘Greener NHS’ team’s ‘vision’ being for our regional ICS to lead managing healthcare in north-east England, we have been working with other Trusts in the region, and fomulating a plan to meet ICS ambitions for an organisation which doesn’t take full control until July.” Michael Blades and Owen Cusack said
the exercise had required the input of a wide range of Trust departments. The former said: “Our current Green Plan covers areas including energy, travel and transport, waste management, procurement, and the wider integration of healthcare with other providers.”
North Tyneside heat decarbonisation scheme Turning to the decarbonisation scheme at North Tyneside, Michael Blades explained that it had been initiated seven years ago. He said: “Our then Estates and Facilities director, Brian Griggs, Owen, and I, got the project under way, aware we were seven years from the end of our existing externally managed energy contract with Veolia. Under the 18-year agreement, Veolia managed our Energy Centre, constructed when the hospital was built in 1980, and extended in 1999 to include a CHP, and sold us heat and power.” Owen Cusack added: “The heat decarbonisation scheme was one of our long-term aspirations, and with the existing contract approaching renewal, we really pushed it through the Trust’s Sustainability agenda. The scheme fits strongly into the Trust’s long-term carbon aspirations, and will be a blueprint for the rest of our hospitals.”
Parallel streams “As part our wider sustainability activity,”
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