A GUIDEBOOK FOR

DECARBONIZING HEALTHCARE

Join us on our mission to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050

How?

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Reduce

Understand how you use energy, then lower your emissions and save money with these ideas for reducing your consumption.

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Electrify

Efficiency can only take you so far - convert what remains from fossil fuel to electricity. The Guidebook can help you shift your heating and domestic hot water needs to the grid.

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Advocate

Learn how building codes affect energy use and restrict decarbonization - then advocate for change!

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Hence, we are on a mission to decarbonize healthcare, and we invite you to join us. Healthcare represents almost 20% of the US National Economy, 10% of US carbon emissions, and 5% of global carbon emissions... and growing. Rather than “doing no harm,” healthcare is actively fueling the carbon fire. In response, we have created a “living” guidebook to help hospitals and those who design them take meaningful steps toward decarbonizing healthcare facilities. We intend to harness the passion and curiosity of the healthcare design community, to crowdsource “best in class” thinking for our collective benefit, including future generations.

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CURRENT CLIMATE

Understand the current state of healthcare emissions

The world’s top climate scientists have declared a Code Red for Humanity, telling us that the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century is Climate Change.

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DECARBONIZATION

Why do we need to decarbonize our buildings?

If global healthcare were a nation, it would be the 5th largest in terms of emissions. We have a responsibility to provide those communities that we serve with a healthy and clean environment in which to live.

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Motivation

As we know, we need little motivation to perform behaviors that are (or at least perceived) easy. Alternatively, as the effort increases, the amount of necessary motivation increases. According to Making Shift Happen, motivation is driven by internal factors, such as perceptions of the positive or negative consequences of the behavior, perceptions of the social acceptability of the behavior, and the degree to which personal identities and value systems align with the behavior.

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Alternative Steam Generation Methods

Traditionally, healthcare facilities generate steam for sterilization and humidification ...

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Variable Air Volume Ventilation

A Variable Air Volume (VAV) system can help decarbonize hospital buildings by reducing reheat energy through its ability to adjust the amount of airflow and cooling/heating capacity based on the actual demand.

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Executive Summary

Join the movement to truly decarbonize healthcare.

Become a member of a robust community – healthcare engineers, designers, architects, facility managers, energy experts, financial wizards, regulators, and more - working together to tackle one of the greatest challenges facing the Healthcare industry: decarbonizing our facilities. Our methods are workshops, conversations, and an online community. Our product will be a living Decarbonizing Healthcare Guidebook. Our goal is transformation. Share your expertise, your ideas, your experience. Share your passion to help us build healthcare facilities that truly create healthier environments.

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