‘GREEN’ STRATEGIES AND NET ZERO CARBON
Meeting the challenge of ‘Net Zero’ carbon
Speaking at a webinar staged by IHEEM in conjunction with HEFMA and the Carbon & Energy Fund (CEF) on 14 April, at which the three organisations officially launched their jointly produced A Healthcare Engineering Roadmap for Delivering Net Zero Carbon document (see also pages 27-30), Dame Sue Ion, DBE, FRS, FREng, FIMMM, addressed the topic, ‘Decarbonising the NHS in the Context of National Policy’. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
Dame Sue Ion spoke to an online audience of around 600 attendees in the opening session of the webinar, and was immediately followed, in the speaking slot’s second ‘half’, by Dr Nick Starkey, Director of Policy at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Later in the morning, Stephen Lowndes, Technical Director, and Steven Heape, Technical Adviser/Project Manager, both of the CEF, and Guy Kieser, Associate Director of Estates at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, introduced the updated version of A Healthcare Engineering Roadmap for Delivering Net Zero Carbon document, which was published online on 1 March this year. It is effectively an update of the CEF publication, Implementing Energy Strategies in Healthcare Estates – a best practice guide to the Model Hospital, first published in October 2017 (
https://tinyurl.com/3fm5yrp7).
‘Original’ commended by Lord Carter In his foreword to the 2017 ‘Roadmap’, which was published at IHEEM’s Healthcare Estates 2017 event in October that year, Lord Carter commended the
110-page document for ‘its suitability for a diverse range of audiences’, as well as its ‘in-depth content, writing style, and design’. The 2021 ‘Roadmap’, which has been co-published this year by IHEEM, HEFMA, and the Carbon & Energy Fund, with input from the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering and its IFHE-EU ‘group’, ‘builds on previous work, and sets out a clear three-staged approach to decarbonising NHS Estates’. IHEEM, HEFMA, and the CEF say that – like it forerunner – it has been developed and reviewed ‘by experts from across industry and the NHS’. It draws on real NHS project experience, reviews emerging and future technologies, and explores how Trusts can ‘develop strategies that decarbonise now, while simultaneously preparing for future innovation’.
An ‘exceptional’ speaker line-up Dame Sue Ion, who was the first speaker at the ‘official’ launch, was introduced by IHEEM CEO, Pete Sellars, who welcomed attendees, and told them they would hear from ‘a number of exceptional speakers’
Dame Sue Ion is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.
during the day with their thoughts on the Net Zero challenge’, ‘but, importantly, not just from an NHS standpoint’. He said: “This is a global challenge, and not just one faced by the healthcare or engineering sectors. There are numerous components which will come together to make this whole effort successful. Look at the impact of COVID over the past 12 months, and the way the science community has come together globally, particularly to provide vaccines. I think there’s a similar opportunity for engineers to come together globally, and innovate, look at new practices/ideas, and share their experiences with one another, so that we – as an engineering fraternity – can play a key part in such an important agenda.”
IHEEM CEO, Pete Sellars, introduced the two complementary webinar presentations by Dame Sue Ion and Dr Nick Starkey.
Moving to introduce Dame Sue Ion, Pete Sellars explained that she is currently Honorary President of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear, and a Member of the Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Independent Advisory Panel. He said: “Dame Sue spent over three decades in the nuclear sector, before moving to an advisory role on energy matters. She was Chairman of the United Kingdom’s Government Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board,
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