Building resilience to overheating into 1960's UK hospital buildings within the constraint of the national carbon reduction target: Adaptive strategies
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In this article, the design and delivery of robust hospital environments in a changing climate has been investigated, where the authors use dynamic thermal models calibrated against measured data to understand the environmental performance of the current NHS Estate and to establish its resilience.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2012-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 77 citations till now.read more
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A medium-rise 1970s maternity hospital in the east of England: Resilience and adaptation to climate change
TL;DR: The likely extent of overheating risk and a series of potential adaptation plans for a recurring NHS hospital building type are described and estates and facilities decision makers in NHS organisations and Public Health England officers charged with the mitigation of risk resulting from overheating of wards and clinical spaces will benefit directly from the findings.
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Overheating and Hospitals - What do we know?
Catriona Carmichael,Graham Bickler,Sari Kovats,David Pencheon,Virginia Murray,Christopher West,Yvonne Doyle +6 more
TL;DR: Improved responses to hot weather could improve patient care and staff comfort, and proper planning will also enable hospitals to reduce health care costs, increase efficiency and meet carbon reduction targets.
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Functional Recovery of a Resilient Hospital Type
TL;DR: Four adaptation options for ‘Nightingale’-type hospital ward buildings devised with practising clinicians are presented and evaluated, and the authors argue for health estates’ strategies that place value on resilience in a changing climate.
Design margins: impacts on building energy performance
D. A. Jones,C. M. Eckert +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the addition of design margins for building services energy infrastructure during the design process and argue that care must be taken when applying margins; ensuring cumulative effects do not undermine the ability of systems to be energy efficient.
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Experimental validation of an energy model of a day surgery/procedure centre in Victoria
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a building energy simulation model for an existing free-standing day surgery/procedure center that is located within the campus of the main general hospital in Geelong, Australia.
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