Sustainability

Alternative funding models, including Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS), are making comprehensive upgrades more accessible. Explore five key questions to help healthcare facilities and finance leaders assess EaaS and choose the right funding strategy for infrastructure upgrades.
This session will explore best practices to reduce water usage while also deploying accepted protocols to reduce the risk of Legionella and other hospital acquired infections (HAIs).
This monograph equips health care facilities leaders with perspectives, tools and strategies to embrace capital planning as both a core responsibility of healthcare facilities leadership and a key component of operationalizing a healthcare organization’s mission and strategy.
From conserving resources to reducing waste, healthcare facilities are under growing pressure from regulatory expectations, ESG initiatives and internal performance goals to demonstrate measurable progress. Yet treating each system separately presents challenges that could have been avoided by…
Munson Medical Center partnered with Trane to implement a 2.5 MW cogeneration (CHP) system that produces electricity while capturing waste heat for steam and hot water, cutting electricity costs by over 50% and improving overall energy efficiency. The project enhanced resiliency, reduced carbon…
ASHRAE/ASHE Guideline 43 provides practical, operations-focused guidance for managing ventilation systems in health care facilities. The guideline helps facilities leaders optimize HVAC performance, manage compliance risk, and implement a structured Ventilation Management Program that supports…
AI-powered sustainability is transforming health care facilities by turning data into actionable insights, enabling predictive maintenance, optimizing HVAC systems, and supporting smarter decarbonization planning. Learn five practical ways AI helps hospitals reduce energy costs, extend asset life,…
Emerging funding and financing strategies are making it possible to upgrade aging infrastructure, reduce energy costs, and strengthen reliability.
Increasing energy demands, aging infrastructure and digitalization present unique opportunities for modernization and sustainability like never before.