Green Building Council designated the facility with its Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design v4 Gold certification, making it among the first hospital facilities to achieve this level of certification..
Along with efficiency, one of the major goals for sustainability was to use prefabrication elements as much as possible to leverage off-site production to speed up the construction and, thereby, reducing waste.
The construction on the hospital began August 2017, and the building was opened for patient care October 2019.
Additional materials and finishes throughout the project were selected for sustainability, including responsible sourcing of raw materials life-cycle effectiveness and the use of healthier, low-emitting content that promotes improved IAQ..
By reducing the amount of heat that needs to be rejected to the atmosphere to meet the cooling demands of the building and use of energy to bring the source to distribution level, This involves the use of energy to transfer this energy and provides savings.
The recovery is achieved using chiller that is put in arrangement with cooling and heating sources with the water return connected on the evaporator side with the building eating the water return on the condenser side.
While the tower supply temperature would float based on outside air wet temperature, for climates like those in Texas, it provided lot of opportunity for the system to decrease the lift on the recovery chillers ranging from 40°-70°.
The byproduct of this on the evaporator side of the chiller was cooling tower supply water at temperature than what the cooling towers can provide.
The load profile for the building was trended for year after the building went operational and was used to model the use of traditional heat operation versus the installation.
Amit Bhansali, P.E, PMP, CEM, BEMP is president and health care practice leader with WSP USA, one of the largest engineering and infrastructure firms.
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