Energy Efficiency Criteria for Planning and Design of Green Hospital Buildings Rating System

Abstract

Energy efficiency in buildings nowadays are objectively important to be achieved and it requirements being underlined in energy policy for buildings at regional, national and international levels. It circulates among the utilization of building services. This paper analyses available information concerning energy efficiency criteria for hospital buildings, whereby particularly, most hospital buildings are operating in 24 hours with high energy consumption. An analysis of green hospital development is conducted and is aimed to emphasize the important aspects energy efficiency applies in hospital building. An overview related to the present sustainable energy efficiency practices that influential green hospital building planning accomplished by a matrix survey is presented. This gives the possibility to assess the motivation for a sustainable or green hospital buildings development through building rating system. Attention is devoted to the review of energy efficiency criteria as they have to be introduced in the future planning and design of green hospital buildings. Several criteria are listed and their relevance to the sustainable energy development for green hospital building development is accessible. The results indicate that several significant criteria for sustainable hospital can improve the practices of energy efficiency to hospital buildings at the planning and design stages. The energy efficient criteria in green hospital building rating system is potential in providing a positive contributions to energy engineering science, which also may lead to more reduction of hospital building energy consumption, thus, directly improve the carbon footprints.