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Carilion Clinic is a not-for-profit health care organization based in Roanoke, VA. In line with their mission to improve the health of the communities they serve, and with the intent of becoming a teaching facility, Carilion Clinic set upon upgrading their operating rooms and related existing HVAC systems at the Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in Christiansburg, VA.

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.