What are sustainable healthcare buildings?
Sustainable buildings are buildings that are safe, healthy and productive for their users and owners, make a positive contribution to their local surroundings, and have a minimal impact on the local and global environment both today and for generations to come.The following matches should help explain what sustainable healthcare buildings are..
Sustainable Healthcare Buildings
Please see
Module 0 - What Are Sustainable Healthcare Buildings? for more information, an introduction and to lead you through the module itself. This should explain what you need to know. You can also download a SHINE introductory presentation. These should explain what you need to know.
Matching articles:
Articles from Guidance Modules
1. What do we mean by sustainable healthcare buildings?
Module 0 - 1.1
On a human level, defining sustainable buildings is fairly simple - it means balancing the economic, social and environmental factors of a building pr...
Case Studies
1. Integrated services in a low energy building
Braunstone Health & Social Care Centre
The key sustainability aspects of the Braunstone project are:
1. Meeting local needs through provision of integrated services
2...
2. Tall, lean and green at Riverside
Lewisham Hospital redevelopment
The Riverside Building at Lewisham provides a high quality, mainly naturally ventilated environment, despite the pressures of a seven-storey building ...
3. Putting patients at ease through excellent design
Rutland Lodge Medical Centre
Key sustainability aspects that define the Rutland Lodge building:
1. Reduced energy use and CO2 emissions through natural ventilation...