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In-house experts, Matt Ebejer and Bill Scrantom will be presenting "Greening Healthcare with Geothermal: 2 Case Studies"
Wednesday, September 15, 8:00am

Hospitals are one of the largest energy use building types in the US. Not only do they use a lot of electricity, they also use more natural gas than most other building types. Their cooling loads are typically a significant portion of their electrical usage, but it is the heating processes which drive their large natural gas use. This session will show how GEOEXCHANGE can be implemented to save considerable energy and water; improve the aesthetic; and enhance the healing environment of a hospital campus. By using the earth as a heat synch, ground-coupled geothermal can provide high-performance cooling and heating in hospitals. You will see why acute care hospitals, in particular, are such good geoexchange applications and how this strategy can significantly reduce the maintenance headaches and cost of hospital HVAC systems. We will also discuss cost models and financing alternatives to make these approaches a reality. Our findings related to two current case studies will be shared.

Open to conference attendees only.

Terry Rodgers (CPE, CPMP) will be teaching this one-day course, which was jointly developed by The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and The U.S. Department of Energy will provide information on energy efficiency strategies to improve data center energy performance. It will be targeted toward data center operators and will be useful for information technology (IT) professionals, as well as facility professionals. The course is based, in part, on the ASHRAE data center book series, which provides a common knowledge base that can be shared among IT and facility organizations. This shared knowledge helps to identify more comprehensive efficiency opportunities that are sometimes lost because of poor communications between these key groups. Optimum performance requires a holistic systems approach, and an integrated data center operational team is most desirable.

The increasing robustness and complexity of critical facilities has created a need for equally robust operation and maintenance practices which will be explored in this talk. Topics covered will be designing for maintain-ability; commissioning/construction startup and testing; and operation and maintenance staffing and organization. Please join Terry Rodgers (CPE, CPMP) and Donald Strunck (LEED AP) as they discuss these matters in their presentation.