LEED for Healthcare

Promotes sustainable planning, design, and construction for high-performance healthcare facilities.

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Sustainability and wellness were a focus in the design, as well, with the building achieving LEED for Healthcare Gold certification and designed to meet Austin Energy Green Building Commercial 2-Star certification requirements.

MAKING THE CONNECTION: Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, opened June 2017

Hospitals looking to achieve LEED certification can get help from LEED for Healthcare, which provides medical facilities with a roadmap to save energy and reduce waste.

How much are hospitals pitching in?

The hospital and clinic buildings are designed to achieve LEED for Healthcare certification.

United States : $648 Million deal for Clark/McCarthy Joint Venture

The first LEED for Healthcare (LEED-HC) certification was recently awarded to a hospital in Puyallup, WA.

New LEED for Healthcare awarded to first recipient

Green Building Council's LEED for Healthcare, available for new and renovated facilities.

Healthcare furniture goes modular: the increased need for flexibility in function and layout is helping to drive the usage of modular furniture in healthcare environments

Green Building Council's (USGBC) introduction of LEED for Healthcare, QA Graphics encourages healthcare facilities to share their sustainable accomplishments with patients, staff and visitors.

QA Graphics Assists Healthcare Facilities in Demonstrating Sustainable Initiatives

"I anticipate that LEED for Healthcare will be a catalyst for Rather market penetration in the health care sector, particularly as the human health and wellness, building performance and business-related benefits associated with green building are more broadly disseminated," says Gaff Vittori, co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and founding chairwoman of the LEED for Healthcare Committee.

New environmental designation expected to spur green health care; LEED certification recognizes the unique challenges faced by hospitals

In the United States, our firm is one of many design companies helping to draft guidelines for the LEED for Neighborhood Development and LEED for Healthcare Construction pilot programs.

Sustainability challenges architects' creativity

What she's been up to: Co-coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care and the founding chair of the LEED for Healthcare core committee through 2009; co-wrote Sustainable Healthcare Architecture in 2008 with colleague Robin Guenther, and the second edition in 2013; worked on Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas as the principal LEED/sustainability consultant for the base building and on its W.H.

Master class: Healthcare Design catches up with past recipients of its professional awards programs to find out what they've been up to and how they're continuing to influence the industry

At best, they've offered it up as an optional credit." That may be changing, though: Efforts to include acoustical credits in LEED for Schools and LEED for Healthcare are promising.

Meshing green design with acoustics: discover which green elements have the most impact on sound and noise

With submittal in progress for LEED for Healthcare Gold certification, it seeks to reduce annual energy costs at least 28 percent below an ASHRAE 90.1-2007 standard.

Kaiser Permanente, San Diego Central Hospital: San Diego

So rather than mimicking its previous green strategies in the addition, Dell Children's instead opted for the more challenging task of pursuing LEED for Healthcare (LEED-HC), says Alan Bell, director of design and construction for Seton Healthcare Family, Dell's not-for-profit healthcare organization.

Pathway to platinum: Dell Children's new bed tower pushes its tradition of sustainable design forward in water and energy conservation and healthy materials sourcing

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