Hospitals are increasingly finding ways to segregate patient space from operational space for safety and efficiency reasons, and one Wisconsin hospital took to the air to maintain that separation. Read More …
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8 Steps to Being Disaster Ready
Successfully operating a hospital and providing exceptional care on a conventional day requires significant leadership. Yet, in the case of an emergency or disaster, the need for swift decisive action is exponentially important. Being prepared in advance is the key. Read More …
Dewberry to Assess MEP Systems at Alamance Regional Medical Center
FAIRFAX, Va.— Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, will document and assess the conditions, capacities, compliance and remaining useful life of mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems at Read More …
Two-Day Parking Symposium Provides Insights on Best Practices, Latest Technology
CLEVELAND, Ohio — How can the parking experience at your healthcare facility efficiently and effectively meet patients’ needs and still meet the parking needs of employees, visitors and guests? Read More …
Recover, Rethink, Thrive: Responding in the wake of natural disaster
Every time a major storm capable of widespread damage and destruction occurs, organizations and their facilities are severely impacted. For healthcare organizations, this can lead to levels of damage that render key spaces or entire medical centers inoperable for extended periods of time. There is very little healthcare organizations can do to predict when these natural disasters will occur, but there is a great deal they can do to prepare and respond. Read More …
Analyzing systems controls, temperature, airflow and pressures to determine long-term energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is a pressing area of concern in the modern healthcare industry. On one hand, unlike many other industries, hospitals have stringent health and safety requirements that make energy reduction difficult. Read More …
Predictive Maintenance: Making proactive choices to mitigate potential failures
A mentor once told me: “Maintenance is like aspirin. Too much will kill you, too little is not effective and if it could cure baldness you would never catch me without it.” Just like aspirin, if predictive maintenance, or PdM, is not used for its intended purpose it becomes useless. Read More …
Web-based Chiller Plant, Building Monitoring Stretch Energy Dollars
In today’s difficult economic climate, when financial savings are critical to every healthcare institution, facility managers demand even more from energy systems while looking to spend less. One way to achieve significant energy savings without making a substantial capital investment is through energy monitoring and chiller plant optimization. Read More …
Full-system integration: Solutions and benefits of optimizing lighting and HVAC control
Not surprisingly, hospitals rank among the most energy-intensive of building types. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, acute-care hospitals use more than 2.5 times the energy per square foot of a typical U.S. commercial building and have an equally outsized environmental footprint. Read More …
