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Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, MA, opened as a small community medical facility in 1884.

Atypical load profile for a hospital might show heat energy increases in the winter, with electric demand peaks in the summer as seen in Figures 1 and 2.

As a physician, I say, “Yes.” However, building managers and engineers sometimes answer differently.

What should hospital facilities prioritize — maintaining healthy IAQ or decreasing energy consumption?

This month, the focus is on high-performance health care, and so it got me thinking about IAQ and infection control (IC) within hospi-tals.

How often has an AHU or system been reused as part of a building renovation project and/or to expand the area served by the associated unit to provide additional air conditioning or heating?

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP-Columbia) is increasing its chiller plant performance — and reaping big savings — with the use of weather forecast-based analytics. 

Like several industries, if HVAC makes real headlines in national publications, it’s probably because something bad happened.