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Pupu Pujiawati, Eufemia Maria, Shony Mandala, and Vip Paramarta. "Pentingnya Sertifikat Laik Fungsi Di Rumah Sakit." DIAGNOSA: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan dan Keperawatan 2, no. 1 (January 15, 2024): 107–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.59581/diagnosa-widyakarya.v2i1.2609.
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A Building functional certificate, hereinafter referred to as SLF, is a certificate issued by the regional government except for special function buildings by the central government, to state the building's functional fitness as a condition for it to be utilized. Based on Minister of Health Regulation Number 40 of 2022 concerning technical requirements for hospital buildings, infrastructure and health equipment in article 1, the regulation of technical requirements for hospital buildings, infrastructure and health equipment aims to create functional hospital buildings, infrastructure and health equipment. Referring to the regulations above, hospital buildings must meet the requirements for safety, health, comfort, convenience, efficient use of resources, harmony and harmony with their environment, realizing orderly, effective and efficient hospital building management. This literature review was made to include journals published in Indonesian, journals published in the 2022-2023 period regarding certificates of functional fitness for hospital buildings, especially regarding the requirements for fulfilling certificates of functional fitness in hospitals. After going through screening, inclusion and exclusion criteria, 3 articles were analyzed. As a result, hospitals need to adjust permits and proper functioning of buildings in accordance with new regulations, then hospitals are expected to follow new regulatory updates in order to maintain the security and safety of patients, visitors and hospital employees from unexpected events.
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Hanan Perkasa, Garindra, and Maria Ulfa. "A Mapping Model of the Sustainability Hospital Buildings in Post Occupancy Evaluation: A Bibliometric Analysis." International Journal of Research and Review 10, no. 1 (January 10, 2023): 189–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230121.
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Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) has proven to be an important tool for assessing interior environmental quality and a useful strategy for continuous building quality improvement in addition to standard tools. This study aims to provide an integrated evaluation model for occupant needs by investigating how the Sustainability Hospital Buildings are related to POE. This research employs a qualitative method with Bibliometric Analysis. The information used in this study was obtained by searching the keywords "Post Occupancy Evaluation" in the Scopus database from 2010 to February 2022. The identification of the time range resulted in the discovery of 305 documents. Overall, the sustainable Buildings scores were positively associated with intelligent buildings (r= 0,584). In addition, the sustainable Buildings had a significant relationship with low-energy buildings, low carbon building design, green building performance, and green buildings with correlation coefficients ranging from 0.5833 to 0.550. Concurrently, Hospital Building and sustainable building design showed a correlation (r= 0,538). Therefore, with the aspect of the sustainable Building in the hospital can determine a strategy for designing hospital buildings that produce results hospital management will be able to keep the building's quality, both in terms of indoor air quality and comfort. Keywords: Post occupancy evaluation, Sustainability Building, Bibliometric, Hospital
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Ikeuchi, Junko. "Who Can Evaluate the Safety of a Hospital Building Just After a Great Earthquake?" Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 34, s1 (May 2019): s177—s178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x19004084.
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Introduction:The earthquake-resistant standard of the buildings of Japan is maintained by several levels. After the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake(1995) the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism in Japan classified the earthquake-resistant performance for the base facilities into 3 levels. The hospital manager often selects the middle level of earthquake-resistance. However, 10 hospitals were closed down for the destruction of facilities by the Kumamoto earthquake. Who may evaluate the safety of a hospital after a great earthquake? The purpose of this study is to consider the methods to evaluate the safety of hospital buildings just after a great earthquake.Methods:The damage to hospitals and the measures based on Japanese Law are arranged. Then it is considered who can declare the safety of hospital buildings after a great earthquake.Results:Hospital buildings collapsed in the Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake and many hospitals lost a function by a tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake. In addition, the glass and the ceilings of the hospital were damaged in the Kumamoto Earthquake. The damage occurred although these many hospitals had an earthquake-resistant standard established in the Building Standard Act of Japan. It is necessary for the experts to judge the safety of the hospital building just after a great earthquake.Discussion:The safety of hospital buildings is the responsibility of the hospital manager. However, there isn’t an expert of building structure employed as staff at a hospital. Thus, the hospital personnel must allow the expert of the building structure to advise a manager. In the future, it is important that the evaluation methods that can judge the damage of a hospital are developed, and the practical training for the hospital personnel are repeated.
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M. Kadhim, Esraa, and Meervat R. Altaie. "Factors Affecting Maintenance Practises in Iraq’s Hospital Buildings." Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering 17, no. 3 (July 10, 2023): 408–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14525/jjce.v17i3.04.
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A lack of adequate building maintenance is a significant obstacle faced by governmental hospitals. This paper evaluates factors that negatively impact building-maintenance practices in Iraq. A literature review was conducted to identify factors affecting maintenance. A list of 42 factors affecting hospital-buildings was collected from previous studies and tested using a structured questionnaire distributed to hospital-maintenance experts. During the data analysis, 76 valid questionnaires were used. Based on the respondents’ ratings, the relative-importance index (RII) was used to determine the level of importance of each factor. From the results, it was concluded that twelve factors affect maintenance practices in hospital buildings: faulty design (0.889), lack of funding (0.874), inadequate training (0.871), misuse of building facilities (0.866), construction errors (0.863), lack of work experience (0.858), building age (0.826), individual modifications carried out by the hospital staff (0.826), shortage of maintenance staff (0.824), administrative corruption (0.821), selection of unqualified maintenance contractors (0.816) and unavailability of skilled appointed maintenance personnel (0.808). Understanding these factors’ effects is essential for maintenance-department managers to develop strategies for maintaining hospital buildings in Iraq by controlling them, as well as identifying problems and finding appropriate solutions to avoid them. KEYWORDS: Governmental hospitals, Maintenance, Iraq, Building maintenance, Maintenance practices, Factors affecting maintenance
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Ebekozien, Andrew, Solomon Oisasoje Ayo-Odifiri, Angeline Ngozika Chibuike Nwaole, Aginah Lawrence Ibeabuchi, and Felix Ebholo Uwadia. "Barriers in Nigeria’s public hospital green buildings implementation initiatives." Journal of Facilities Management 20, no. 4 (August 18, 2021): 586–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfm-01-2021-0009.
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Purpose The high consumption of energy by buildings may have enhanced land degradation, flooding, air pollution and many other hazardous environmental issues. However, green practices in buildings have been proved as one of the successful technologies to mitigate these issues. Past studies have shown lax green practices in Nigerian buildings. Concerning public hospital buildings, this is yet to be explored. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the barriers to green practices and proffer possible policy solutions to promote hospital green buildings. Design/methodology/approach In attaining these objectives, the view of hospital building contractors, design team, hospital management and policymakers in the relevant ministries/agencies was engaged via virtual interviews. The collated data were analysed and presented in the thematic pattern. Findings Findings show that green building construction is extremely low in Nigeria, but the worst hit is the health-care buildings across the states. Government/policy-related, organisational/leadership-related, financial-related, technical-related, design team-related and stakeholders’ behaviour-related barriers emerged as the main six themes of barriers affecting public hospital green buildings implementation initiatives. Findings show that proffering possible policies to addressing these barriers may improve public hospital green construction across the states. Research limitations/implications This paper is limited to barriers to green buildings implementation in public hospitals in Nigeria, and data collection was through virtual interviews but does not affect the strength of the findings. Thus, this paper suggests that the sub-themes and variables/items that emerged from the collated data as presented in Figure 1 can be further developed quantitatively via questionnaire survey to validate and improve the reliability of results from this paper. Practical implications As part of this study’s implications, suggestions from this paper will stir up policymakers’ decisions, to be tailored towards achieving green buildings implementation initiatives in Nigerian public hospitals. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is probably the first that attempted to investigate the barriers to green buildings implementation in public hospitals in Nigeria.
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Li, Yan Jun, and Zeng Feng Yan. "Study on Analysis and Quota of Energy Consumption for Large Comprehensive Hospital Buildings in Shaanxi Province of China." Advanced Materials Research 512-515 (May 2012): 2817–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.512-515.2817.
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As social and economic development in China，building scale and medical devices have greatly improved in hospitals, and patients and medical staff are requiring a more and more comfortable indoor environment. All these lead to rising energy consumption of hospital buildings. How to save energy and reduce consumption on the basis of keeping medical quality? This paper takes studies on energy consumption of hospitals in Shaanxi province. First of all, questionnaires about energy consumption of hospitals were carried out. Total energy consumption and electricity consumption were analyzed and energy consumption law was summarized. Then, quota principle and quota method of energy consumption were explored, and energy consumption quota of hospital buildings in Shaanxi province was established. This research contributes to energy-saving of hospital building and provides reference for other public buildings in Shaanxi province.
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Roesdiana, Novada Indra, and Maria Ulfa. "Sick Building Syndrome on Healthcare Workers in Hospital Buildings." Galore International Journal of Health Sciences and Research 7, no. 4 (March 29, 2023): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/gijhsr.20221007.
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Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is characterized by discomfort, eye pain, nose problems, tightness in the chest, lethargy, and sore throat. However, there is currently a deficiency of study in this field on bibliometric analytical mapping investigations. This research aimed to identify hospital development strategies for the use of advanced future research. Information for the research is acquired by searching through the database (https://www.scopus.com) with the keyword “Sick Building Syndrome” from a publication starting from 2020 to 2022; there are 108 documents recorded. The data were analyzed with VOS viewer and NVivo 12 Plus software. The findings show that sick building syndrome research studies increased in 2021. The study on sick building syndrome revealed seven dominant theme groups. Indoor environmental quality and sick building syndrome in hospitals, infrastructure development and mobilizing human resources, green and healthy hospitals, and COVID-19 are current research trends. Through bibliometric analysis and network visualization, the researchers summarized recent developments in sick building syndrome research involving healthcare professionals to explain their research trends, boundaries, and popular issues. These results can offer helpful direction for future study and viewpoints in this quickly changing sector. Keywords: Sick Building Syndrome; Healthcare Workers; Hospital Buildings
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Olanrewaju, Abdullateef, Wong Wai Fang, and Seong Yeow Tan. "Hospital Building Maintenance Management Model." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2.29 (May 22, 2018): 747. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.29.14010.
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Wellness of the patients correlated with the hospital building performance. For building to achieve it design objectives and provide value added services to owners, users and other stakeholders, maintenance functions are strategic. As a result, management of the maintenance of hospital buildings is a delicate and expensive task to perform. Despite the fact that there is a lack of representative data on the maintenance of hospital buildings in Malaysia, there is a growing concern surrounding the subject. Fire outbreaks and decay in hospital buildings suggest a need to conduct critical research to investigate the maintenance management practices of hospital buildings. This paper reports part of an ongoing research that aims to develop a maintenance model for hospital buildings. Hence, this current research reports the results of literature reviews and observations on hospital buildings in Malaysia and their maintenance practices. Upon reviewing the literature, a conceptual framework of maintenance model for hospital buildings was proposed. The research found that the current approaches to maintenance management in the hospital buildings were corrective, fragmented, cost-driven and expensive. The procurement of maintenance services was mainly outsourcings. All these call into question, the decision making processes of the hospital maintenance organisations. Collectively, the above considerations have led to the formulation of the main research question- what are the critical success factors [CSFs] for the maintenance of hospital buildings? The current study also discussed a proposed research methodology for the main research. Furthermore, issues pertaining to the research design, ontology and epistemology were briefly discussed. It was established that to enrich the findings of the main research, it was imperative to collect primary data using both quantitative and qualitative research paradigms.
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Jia, Zhuo, Song Pan, Haowei Yu, Yiqiao Liu, Shen Wei, Mingyuan Qin, Li Chang, and Ying Cui. "Modeling Occupant Window Behavior in Hospitals—A Case Study in a Maternity Hospital in Beijing, China." Sustainability 15, no. 11 (May 25, 2023): 8606. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15118606.
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Nowadays, relevant data collected from hospital buildings remain insufficient because hospital buildings often have stricter environmental requirements resulting in more limited data access than other building types. Additionally, existing window-opening behavior models were mostly developed and validated using data measured from the experimental building itself. Hence, their accuracy is only assessed by the algorithm’s evaluation index, which limits the model’s applicability, given that it is not tested by the actual cases nor cross-verified with other buildings. Based on the aforementioned issues, this study analyzes the window-opening behavior of doctors and patients in spring in a maternity hospital in Beijing and develops behavioral models using logistic regression. The results show that the room often has opened windows in spring when the outdoor temperature exceeds 20 °C. Moreover, the ward windows’ use frequency is more than 10 times higher than those of doctors’ office. The window-opening behavior in wards is more susceptible to the influence of outdoor temperature, while in the doctors’ office, more attention is paid to indoor air quality. Finally, by embedding the logistic regression model of each room into the EnergyPlus software to simulate the CO2 concentration of the room, it was found that the model has better applicability than the fixed schedule model. However, by performing cross-validation with different building types, it was found that, due to the particularity of doctors’ offices, the models developed for other building types cannot accurately reproduce the window-opening behavior of doctors. Therefore, more data are still needed to better understand window usage in hospital buildings and support the future building performance simulations of hospital buildings.
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Wahyuningrum, Sri Hartuti, Mustika Kusumaning Wardhani, and Robert Rianto Widjaja. "AUTHENTICITY IN BUILDING ADJUSTMENT SIMULATION (Case Study: Emergency Room of St. Elizabeth Hospital Semarang, Indonesia)." DIMENSI (Journal of Architecture and Built Environment) 48, no. 1 (October 26, 2021): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/dimensi.48.1.19-28.
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This paper aims to simulate adjustments for new functions in hospitals that respect the authenticity of cultural heritage buildings. The development of heritage buildings should be integrated, especially in adjusting building functions, such as room arrangement. The emergency room is a vital function for hospital services, and consideration is needed to arrange procedures. The research method chosen in this research is descriptive qualitative with a case study in the Magdalena Daeman building St Elizabeth Hospital. Design simulation can be realized by adjusting the standard emergency room requirements into the layout of the building. Additionally, cultural heritage buildings should be maintained to be used in operational functions by carrying out development. This study's results can be a guideline in developing new functions of cultural heritage buildings that meet the conservation technique guidelines.
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Jain, Nishesh, Esfand Burman, Samuel Stamp, Clive Shrubsole, Roderic Bunn, Tin Oberman, Edward Barrett, et al. "Building Performance Evaluation of a New Hospital Building in the UK: Balancing Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Performance." Atmosphere 12, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12010115.
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Hospitals are controlled yet complex ecosystems which provide a therapeutic environment that promotes healing, wellbeing and work efficiency for patients and staff. As these buildings accommodate the sick and vulnerable, occupant wellbeing and good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) that deals with indoor air quality (IAQ), thermal comfort, lighting and acoustics are important objectives. As the specialist nature of hospital function demands highly controlled indoor environments, this makes them energy intensive buildings due to the complex and varying specifications for their functions and operations. This paper reports on a holistic building performance evaluation covering aspects of indoor air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, acoustics, and energy use. It assesses the performance issues and inter-relationships between IEQ and energy in a new building on a hospital campus in the city of Bristol, United Kingdom. The empirical evidence collated from this case study and the feedback received from the hospital staff help identify the endemic issues and constraints related to hospital buildings, such as the need for robust ventilation strategies in hospitals in urban areas that mitigate the effect of indoor and outdoor air pollution and ensuring the use of planned new low-carbon technologies. Whilst the existing guidelines for building design provide useful instructions for the protection of hospital buildings against ingress of particulate matter from outdoors, more advanced filtration strategies may be required to enact chemical reactions required to control the concentration levels of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and benzene. Further lessons for improved performance in operation and maintenance of hospitals are highlighted. These include ensuring that the increasingly available metering and monitoring data in new buildings, through building management systems, is used for efficient and optimal building operations for better IEQ and energy management. Overall, the study highlights the need for an integrated and holistic approach to building performance to ensure that healthy environments are provided while energy efficiency targets are met.
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Ekhaese, Eghosa Noel, Ibrahim Abudulsalam Mohammed, and Praise Ojuoluwa Akindoyin. "Bioclimatic design strategies and energy efficiency in an orthopaedic hospital in Nigerian cities: A cross-sectional study." Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development 8, no. 7 (July 15, 2024): 2736. http://dx.doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v8i7.2736.
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2050 building stock might be buildings that already exist today. A large percentage of these buildings fail today’s energy performance standards. Highly inefficient buildings delay progress toward a zero-carbon-building goal (SDGs 7 and 13) and can lead to investments in renewable energy infrastructure. The study aims to investigate how bioclimatic design strategies enhance energy efficiency in selected orthopaedic hospitals in Nigeria. The study objective includes Identifying the bioclimatic design strategies that improve energy efficiency in orthopaedic hospitals, assessing the energy efficiency requirements in an orthopaedic hospital in Nigeria and analysing the effects of bioclimatic design strategies in enhancing energy efficiency in an orthopaedic hospital in Nigeria. The study engaged a mixed (qualitative and quantitative) research method. The investigators used case study research as a research design and a deductive approach as the research paradigm. The research employed a questionnaire survey for quantitative data while the in-depth Interview (IDI) guide and observation schedule for qualitative data. The findings present a relationship between bioclimatic design strategies and energy conservation practices in an orthopaedic hospital building. Therefore, implementing bioclimatic design strategies might enhance energy efficiency in hospital buildings. The result of the study revealed that bioclimatic hospital designs may cost the same amount to build but can save a great deal on energy costs. Despite the challenges, healthcare designers and owners are finding new ways to integrate bioclimatic design strategies into new healthcare construction to accelerate patient and planet healing.
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Ji, Ru, and Shilin Qu. "Investigation and Evaluation of Energy Consumption Performance for Hospital Buildings in China." Sustainability 11, no. 6 (March 21, 2019): 1724. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11061724.
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Energy use in hospitals is higher than other public buildings, so it is essential to investigate and evaluate its energy consumption performance to save energy. In this paper, a comprehensive investigation was conducted to study energy consumption of hospitals in China. The investigation results show that electricity use accounts for the maximum share in total energy consumption of hospitals, especially in south China. Improving air conditioning systems is the most direct and effective way for realizing hospital building energy savings. What’s more, a new evaluation system of energy-saving performance for hospital buildings was developed. This evaluation system could evaluate performance of energy use in hospital, find out the weakness of energy use, and provide improving suggestions. Furthermore, a kind of visual software was given by our paper, which can be used intuitively by practitioners to evaluate building energy consumption performance of a hospital.
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Olanrewaju, A., W. X. Tan, and Z. Gou. "Evaluation of defect in hospital buildings." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1218, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 012014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1218/1/012014.
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Abstract There are many complaints and criticisms in media and research literature on defects in hospital buildings despite the consistent increase in maintenance expenditures. This research investigated the nature of defects in private hospital buildings. Primary data for the study were collected through a survey questionnaire administered to hospital building users. Based on the findings, the defects that often require frequent maintenance are leaky faucets, defective doors, defective windows, broken lights, and faulty ventilation. The major conclusion drawn from the survey was that although there are many different defects in the buildings, the urgency at which they require maintenance interventions varies. Therefore, in order to avoid value mismatch and resource misallocations, resources and attention should be directed to the defects that are more important to the users and the other should be included in the next maintenance rolling programme. Maintenance management should be implemented to achieve good maintenance, capable to meet the expected requirements of the end-user and increase building performance and reduce the maintenance backlog.
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Scialpi, G., J. Declercq, L. Grisay, and D. Perrotti. "An urban hospital base79,2d on the principles of circular economy: the case of Joseph Bracops hospital." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1078, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 012011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1078/1/012011.
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Abstract The building industry has mainly focused on improving operational energy consumption to minimise the environmental impacts of buildings which are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). However, considering the full life cycle of buildings, energy use and GHG emissions occur for reasons that extend beyond the operational phase and involve the embodied impacts of construction and disassembly. Circular building design can provide a holistic approach where the building’s whole life cycle is considered in a manner consistent with circular economy principles, minimizing global material consumption, reducing waste and insuring a more circular building material stock. To date, research on the wide-scale adoption of circular design and construction strategies in public projects is still lacking. On this basis, the case study of the new Joseph Bracops hospital in Brussels shows that circular building design principles can be applied in the healthcare sector within the framework of a public tender. The project integrates circular economy principles at different scales (city, site, building, element), optimises different material and energy flows and takes into account different timespans (short and long term). The study also offers insight and guidance for future research into how the urban hospital of tomorrow will be a resilient public venue. Such a venue can enable a more comprehensive approach of health promotion, reflected by the qualitative integration of circular economy principles both with a social and technical focus, connected to the community and capable to mutate over time.
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Jesumoroti, Christtestimony, AbdulLateef Olanrewaju, and Soo Cheen Khor. "Exploring the Condition of Wards in Malaysia Hospital Buildings." International Journal of Real Estate Studies 17, no. 2 (December 31, 2023): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/intrest.v17n2.293.
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Hospital buildings condition necessitated the findings of this study especially the state of the wards in the hospital buildings. The objective of this study is to examine the conditions of the wards in the hospital buildings, and proffer recommendations to various stakeholders for enhancement. A quantitative approach was used where the condition of the hospital wards was ranked respectively by the participants were physicians, psychologists, dentists, veterinarians, medical doctors, medical officers, nurses, and other hospital buildings professional users constitute the sample stratum. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 was used to analyse the data; descriptive and inferential such as reliability, validity, and ranking. The salient finding is that polluted ventilation, faulty ceiling lamps, faulty fire alarms, faulty wall (wall finishes/painting) and faulty window handles, were the condition of wards that were ranked highest (slightly bad) and merely affected. This implies that there is the need to use a better maintenance management approach to avert further decline in the condition of the hospital wards. Also, the research findings states that hospital buildings conditions and components of wards could be in the good state at all times using a holistic approach that will reduce more wards component depreciations for quality services outputs for the users. The wards conditions in the hospital buildings could be greatly improved by using proper strategies and maintenance management plans. Most of the studies about hospital building wards had focused on thermal comfort, but there is a paucity of studies that investigate the hospital buildings' condition of wards with low number in respondent active participation. Despite the constant rise in maintenance costs, there are numerous complaints and critiques of hospital buildings reported in the media. The lack of proper consideration for maintenance management and weaknesses in Malaysia hospitals has led to the deterioration of hospital buildings and reduced healthcare services. The study was being able to highlight some beneficial qualities and were also highlights some weaknesses of wards condition in the Malaysian hospital buildings which can tentatively be curtailed so users can be comfortable and satisfied.
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D, Hadeel Abdulkareem. "Integrating Renewable Energy Storage with Solar, Including Micro-Grid Functionality in Modern Healthcare Buildings." ECS Transactions 107, no. 1 (April 24, 2022): 16813–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/10701.16813ecst.
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This research focuses on three major Turkish hospitals case studies to demonstrate how input parameters for renewable energy internal load and temperature control patterns influence the accuracy of annual energy simulation results for healthcare buildings using micro-grid lines. The three cases studies include: The Central Hospital Istanbul and the Medicana International Hospital Building, both part of the state hospitals, and the Koc Hospital Istanbul Building. These specific case studies are selected to represent three different types of buildings with enhancing energy capacity with renewable energy (solar and wind). The Koc Hospital Istanbul is an example of a new certified building. The Central Hospital Istanbul provides an example of a small retrofit project, and the Medicana International Hospital is an example of a building that has gone through major retrofitting for energy management. This research uses MATLAB, an interface of MATLAB to simulate all case studies for renewable energy generation with micro-grid lines. The program offers the option to model the building with simple or detailed HVAC systems. It has built-in templates for renewable energy management, weather data, typical loads, and schedules. For renewable energy, the modified model achieved a lower accuracy in heating energy than in renewability. However, it is still a substantial improvement over the default model.
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Dainese, Enrico, Shalika Walker, Wim Maassen, and Wim Zeiler. "Towards zero energy hospital buildings: a polyclinic building as case study." E3S Web of Conferences 111 (2019): 04021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911104021.
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The need for (nearly) Zero Energy Buildings (nZEBs) becomes increasingly important due to climate change and increasing energy prices. Considering that, on average the existing hospitals use 3.5 times more energy than the nZEB requirement, reaching zero energy a very challenging task. However, monitoring hospitals’ energy flows together with a holistic view on building functions and occupancy can contribute to achieving potential energy savings, which is lacking in the current hospital buildings. Therefore, in this study, the energy saving potentials of a polyclinic building of a hospital in the Netherlands was investigated through a holistic inspection of the building and its occupancy. The analysis is performed in order to investigate the building characteristics, energy supply and demand. It was found that the number of people present was considerably lower than the full capacity, with 30% average occupancy in the medical facilities and 70% for the administrative areas. The air supply of the current ventilation system was found to be constant irrespective of the number of people present in these rooms. Furthermore, a discrepancy of 30- 50% was found between designed and installed lighting systems. The analysis of the polyclinic showed possible energy-saving measures with controlled ventilation rates and lighting according to the occupancy.
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Sahamir, Shaza Rina, Rozana Zakaria, Raja Rafidah Raja Muhd Rooshdi, Noor Akmal Adillah Ismail, and Zainab Mohmad Zainordin. "Key influencing factors for green public hospital building development in Malaysia." MATEC Web of Conferences 266 (2019): 01025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201926601025.
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The green hospital movement began years ago, following by several countries release their green rating system for the hospital buildings. In the past few years, a few newly constructed private hospital buildings in Malaysia have strived for the green building index certification. Paucity studies demonstrate that public hospital buildings have established for certifying the index. Despite the recognition of the importance of green building in achieving sustainability goal and the existence of many studies on issues associated with green innovations adoption in general, few have specifically examined factors influencing the development of green public hospital building. As a result, with the intent to enhance green building promotion efforts, the primary objective of this study is to investigate the key factors influencing the development of green public hospital building. A review of literature has been conducted and a set of factors were identified. A questionnaire survey was carried out based on the literature review to solicit experts’ opinions. The experts were requested to evaluate the degree to which factor was an important in the implementation of green public hospital buildings. Feedbacks from 82 design experts were collected and analysed using descriptive analysis. The findings indicate that several factors were identified as key factors for the development of green public hospital buildings. The identified factors have incorporated with the accomplishment of environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity.
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Zhan, Zhaoxi, Wenna Xu, Lin Xu, Xinyue Qi, Wenjie Song, Chen Wang, and Ziye Huang. "BIM-Based Green Hospital Building Performance Pre-Evaluation: A Case Study." Sustainability 14, no. 4 (February 11, 2022): 2066. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14042066.
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With ecological problems and energy crises intensifying today, greening is essential to sustainable development. Compared with other types of buildings, hospital buildings account for a relatively larger proportion of building energy consumption. In order to realize the rapid cycle optimization of a green hospital project in the design stage and improve the green grade of the building, a pre-evaluation Building Information Model (BIM) of green hospital building performance was established in this study. Firstly, the literature review and expert consultation established the building performance pre-evaluation index system for green hospitals. Then, BIM technology is taken to extract data needed for building a performance pre-evaluation system, and the Cloud Model and the Matter–Element Extension Theory are used to build models. The final green grade calculation is realized in MATLAB. Finally, the Maluan Bay Hospital is taken as an example to test the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed model. The results show that the green hospital building performance pre-evaluation model has advantages of simulation, cyclic optimization and fuzzy quantification, which can effectively guide the design and construction of a green hospital.
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Hwang, Cho, and Moon. "Feasibility Study on Energy Audit and Data Driven Analysis Procedure for Building Energy Efficiency: Bench-Marking in Korean Hospital Buildings." Energies 12, no. 15 (August 3, 2019): 3006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12153006.
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Growths in population, increasing demand for health care services and comfort levels, together with patients on the rise in time spent inside hospitals, assure the upward trend that energy demand will continue in the future. Since the hospital buildings operate 24 hours, 365 days a year for the treatment and restoration of patients, they are approximately 2–3 times more energy-intensive than normal buildings. For this reason, energy efficiency in hospitals is one of the prime objectives for energy policy at regional, national and international levels. This study aims to find how meaningful energy performance, reflecting good energy management and energy conservation measures (ECMs), can be operated for hospital buildings, a category encompassing complex buildings with different systems and large gaps between them. Energy audit allows us to obtain knowledge from the healthcare facility, in order to define and tune data driven analysis rules. The use of benchmarking in the energy audit of healthcare facilities enables immediate comparison between hospitals. Data driven energy analysis also allows ascertaining their expected energy consumption and estimating the possible savings margin by using the building energy flow chart. In the 2015–2017 periods, bench-marking of four public hospitals in Seoul were audited for the energy consumption related to weather conditions, total area, bed numbers, employee numbers, and analyzed for building energy flow by zones, energy sources, systems and equipment. This is a practice-based learning in a hospital project. The results reveal that the average annual energy consumption of a hospital under normal conditions, and energy efficiency factors are divided into energy baselines, energy consumption goals for energy saving and energy usage trends for setting ECMs, respectively. The indicator dependent on the area of inpatients (number of beds) proved to be the most suitable as a reference to quantify the energy consumption of a hospital.
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Montiel-Santiago, Francisco Javier, Manuel Jesús Hermoso-Orzáez, and Julio Terrados-Cepeda. "Sustainability and Energy Efficiency: BIM 6D. Study of the BIM Methodology Applied to Hospital Buildings. Value of Interior Lighting and Daylight in Energy Simulation." Sustainability 12, no. 14 (July 16, 2020): 5731. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12145731.
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One of the least used aspects of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the ability to obtain the energy model of the building using the BIM methodology known as BIM 6D. This digital information model allows simulating the real energy behavior of the building and the improvement in the building’s lighting systems, both natural and artificial, in particular daylighting. In this way, the BIM 6D simulation allows us to make design and operation decisions for the building, not only for new buildings that must be, in accordance with current legislation, NZEB (Nearly Zero-Energy Building) but also for the rehabilitation of existing buildings. Particularly in buildings for sanitary use, BIM 6D allows an exhaustive analysis of the energy impact of said rehabilitation, guiding it towards an improvement in energy and light efficiency, which in turn provides greater quality and comfort in the use of the sustainable building. This subject of study is especially important in public buildings for hospital use. Buildings where energy efficiency and comfort, oriented towards optimal and efficient lighting, are two fundamental criteria highly appreciated by patients and citizens in general. Once the energy model of the building has been obtained, it is possible to study and identify possible alternatives to improve energy efficiency and improve lighting, as well as to analyze the possibilities of incorporating other more efficient forms of renewable energy, such as the use of daylight. In this work we can see how applying a set of simulated improvement actions in BIM 6D achieves an energy saving of 50% in general and up to 13% only by acting on lighting systems, allowing the decarbonization of buildings with high energy consumption, such as hospitals, and in turn, will lead to an improvement in the energy certification of these buildings; thus achieving a better and higher quality of habitability, using more efficient forms of lighting and transforming buildings into more sustainable spaces.
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Wong, Wai Fang, AbdulLateef Olanrewaju, and Poh Im Lim. "Importance and Performance of Value-Based Maintenance Practices in Hospital Buildings." Sustainability 13, no. 21 (October 28, 2021): 11908. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132111908.
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After two decades of privatization of building maintenance service in government hospitals in Malaysia, evidence of under-maintained hospital buildings suggests a need to raise the level of hospital maintenance service delivery. This study identified the critical success factors to enhance the value outcomes of hospital maintenance service. A total of 66 questionnaire survey responses from maintenance personnel in public hospitals were analyzed using the Importance-Performance Matrix Analysis (IPMA) in the SmartPLS3.0 software. The Importance versus the Performance of value-based practices was mapped to identify the critical areas that require greater considerations to improve maintenance service delivery. The findings revealed four critical success factors: Responsive to Needs, Integrated Service Solutions, Innovative Improved Practices, and Value for Money. These practices were found to be the impetus that can bring significant enhancement to hospital building maintenance service delivery. Although the findings are based on data derived from public hospitals in Malaysia, the outcomes are applicable to private hospitals both in and outside of Malaysia.
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Zuo, Jian, Xue Liang Yuan, and Stephen Pullen. "Post Occupancy Evaluation Study in Hospital Buildings – a Pilot Study." Applied Mechanics and Materials 94-96 (September 2011): 2248–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.94-96.2248.
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Building stock plays a critical role in the sustainability agenda worldwide. It consumes a large proportion of energy and is one of the biggest carbon emitters. Hospital buildings are no exception. Therefore, the performance of hospital buildings is critical to achieve the overall carbon emission goal. Post occupancy evaluation has been a popular tool and technique to evaluate the building performance which provides feedback to the building design and construction. This paper investigates the post occupancy evaluation of hospital buildings. A typical hospital campus in China is selected for this research purpose. The results showed that, even though not being implemented widely in China, the POE is an effective and useful tool for building performance evaluation. In addition, the relative importance of POE study criteria is highlighted.
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Dubey, Apoorva, and Mohammad Arif Kamal. "Evaluating Energy Efficiency in a Hospital Building with Reference to GRIHA: Case of Trauma Centre at Aligarh, India." Architecture Engineering and Science 3, no. 2 (June 15, 2022): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.32629/aes.v3i2.843.
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With the rise in problems mainly ecological as well as energy crises that are intensifying today, the concept of green has become essential concerning sustainable development. The hospital building consumes much more energy and generates more waste, as compared to the other types of buildings. The climate change, contamination of chemicals, and use of unsustainable resources are all making health worse day by day over the world. The health sectors are themselves causing these problems on a broad scale. So, hospitals, health sectors must be green, there must be proper management of resources, waste etc., which means that it must have a minimum negative impact on the environment. The term Green Hospital has evolved as a way of addressing environmental issues, overcoming them and meeting society’s need. In India, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) is one of the tools that provides green building certification to hospital buildings also. This paper aims at analyzing and investigating a hospital building (Trauma centre), Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh, based on major criteria of the GRIHA variant for existing buildings. This hospital building had been provisionally-rated by GRIHA in the year 2016 as 3 stars. This paper includes the analysis of building based on various calculations and in depth study of how this 3 star rating was provisionally achieved. This paper involves two main calculations, one regarding peak heat gain and the other is EPI.
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Solak, Kemal. "Green Building Concept with The World’s Largest Seismic Isolated Hospital in Turkey." Applied Research on Civil Engineering and Environment (ARCEE) 1, no. 02 (February 5, 2020): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32722/arcee.v1i02.2678.
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Certification systems used to test green buildings have become popular nowadays. In addition, there has been a gradual increase in the involvement of the players in the construction sector and public awareness of sustainability. These systems, which are useful in mitigating the building's environmental impacts, reveal difficulties in their implementation, especially for devoloping countries. Because of the problems affecting the population, such as air pollution and health problems, most world states came together and held conferences to take joint binding decisions. In Turkey, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is first on the total number of certified green buildings, followed by the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) and the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). This article summarizes the methodology used by some of these rating methods, shows a comparative approach between these rating systems, and provides an overview of how green building relates to sustainable development practices. Lastly, the building of the hospital was analyzed using LEED certification system as a case study and the differences in the results were evaluated.
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Bashyal, Chandramani, Anjay Kumar Mishra, and P. S. Aithal. "FIRE SAFETY COMPLIANCE AMONG HOSPITAL BUILDINGS: A CASE STUDY FROM NEPAL-ASIA." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 10, no. 10 (October 31, 2022): 33–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v10.i10.2022.4827.
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Purpose: Hospital building is more sensitive to fire as it has large number of patients who might need assistance during evacuation. The assessment focuses to the Compliance for fire safety by accessing different standards; availability of equipment and systems, exit requirements and awareness among the departmental staffs of Hospitals.Design/Methodology/Approach: The study confined to the 4 hospitals from Bharatpur Metropolitan, Nepal based on judgmental sampling viz; Bharatpur Hospital, BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, College of Medical Science and Chitwan Medical College building. Literature review was done followed by observation with checklist, questionnaire survey and key informant interview.Findings/Result: The study revealed that the fire safety preparedness was not a priority in the hospitals. All hospital buildings were designed following National building codes. Both private and public Hospitals, practically every one of them uncover a similar degree of readiness. Bharatpur hospital lacked many firefighting equipment such as smoke detector, heat detector, fire alarm and water hose reel. Water sprinkle was missed on all hospitals. Obstruction was found in the escape route. Lacked exit signs and floor indications. Staffs were found aware about the general component of the structure like structure plan, area for exit and assembly points but lacked awareness on emergency procedure.Originality/Value: This research complements the existing building code requirements and fire safety implementation especially for hospital building as Nepal is not having specific provisions for hospitals fire safety. It is assumed to be applicable for policy making in concerned authority & forms basis for further research.
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Olanrewaju, AbdulLateef, and Yu Lin Ooi. "Determinants of Maintenance Cost of Hospital Buildings: An Artificial Neural Network Approach." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1067, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 012083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1067/1/012083.
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Abstract Hospital maintenance organizations are under constant pressure to plan maintenance work due to insufficient budgets. The ability to predict maintenance costs is a significant function of the maintenance organization. This paper reports a study that investigated the critical determinants associated with the maintenance costs of hospital buildings. The research developed a questionnaire instrument that included 18 determinants of the maintenance cost of hospital buildings. The average maintenance cost is about RM550,000, and the average age of the buildings is about 20 years. The size of most of the hospitals is more than 21,000 square meters. Using maintenance cost as the dependent variable, an artificial neural network model to predict maintenance cost was presented. The model revealed that the critical determinants of maintenance costs are the size of the hospitals, improper use of the hospital buildings, poor budgeting, absence of forecasting techniques, and high-performance expectations of the buildings. This research provides new information on the cost profile of the maintenance cost of hospital buildings.
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Liu, Yan Fen. "Shanxi Datong Mosse Memorial Hospital – Beautiful Scenery on the Northern Boundary." Advanced Materials Research 671-674 (March 2013): 2313–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.671-674.2313.
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By reviewing the construction background of Datong Mosse Memorial Hospital, organizing its building functions, and analyzing the building elevation, this paper tries to illustrate the perfect combination of locality and building functions reflected by this architecture which is the excellent example among modern buildings in Datong and has enlightenment significance for modern design of hospital buildings.
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Kadric, Dzana, Rejhana Blazevic, Hadis Bajric, and Edin Kadric. "Evaluation of Energy Renovation Measures for Hospital Buildings using the PSI Method." Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research 14, no. 1 (February 8, 2024): 12753–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.48084/etasr.6558.
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This study investigated the potential for energy savings and reduction in CO2 emissions in hospital buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), through the implementation of energy renovation measures. The building sector in B&H is characterized by significant energy consumption, and hospitals account for a substantial portion of the total energy consumption in public buildings. This study analyzes certain energy renovation measures for selected hospital buildings, including the installation of thermal insulation on exterior walls and flat roofs, and the installation of a photovoltaic plant on the flat roof. The Preference Selection Index (PSI) multicriteria decision-making method was employed to evaluate and rank renovation scenarios based on energy, environmental, and financial criteria. The results indicate that the most preferred measure is the installation of a photovoltaic plant on a flat roof, resulting in significant primary energy and CO2 savings, with an acceptable discounted payback period. The findings emphasize the effectiveness of energy renovation measures in enhancing energy efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of hospital buildings in B&H.
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KAPROL, Timur. "HERITAGE OF MODERNISM IN ÇORLU: MILITARY STATE HOSPITAL." INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNAL OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, no. 29 (2023): 24–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17365/tmd.2023.turkey.29.02.
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Aim: Çorlu Military State Hospital, which was constructed in the modernist era in Türkiye, has been proven to be authentic by DOCOMOMO Türkiye. Method: First of all, the need for hospital buildings in our country in the years when the building was built was discussed. The importance of the hospital, the health units it contains, within the scope of the architectural appreciation observed in the buildings and its comparative analysis with periodical buildings in our country were made after the literature review. In the study, the survey and restitution projects of the hospital building were used. Results: The advantages brought to architecture by the innovations that the university reform brought both to the medicine and architecture after the establishment of the Republic have been analysed in terms of the contribution of scientists who came to our country after the political events in the West. One of the innovative buildings constructed, similar to particularly the ones in Ankara, Çorlu Military State Hospital is concluded to be an important document of its era in Trakya. For this reason, it has been concluded that it is indispensable for the city’s history and for the survival of social memory. Conclusion: In terms of Historical, Vital, and Stylistic Use, Urban Landscape, Authenticity, Technique and Technology, Integrity, and Group Values, it was concluded that the building should be transferred to future generations.
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Zamri Noranai, Nurul Farahin Mohd Joharudin, Noradila Abdul Latif, Nur Liyana’ Amirah Mohd Kamil, and Mohd Azahari Razali. "A Case Study on Potential Saving of Energy Consumption at Hospital Putrajaya." Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences 100, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.37934/arfmts.100.2.1522.
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Efficient electrical energy usage has been recognised as one of the significant factors to reduce the cost of electrical energy consumption. In this world, hospitals are public buildings that use the enormous energy of other buildings. Due to its 24 hours service, the use of hospital building energy is estimated to be among the highest compared to commercial and residential buildings. In this research, the main building of Putrajaya Hospital has been selected. The main building covered by the first floor until the fifth floor will be focused to conduct this research. This research aims to identify energy consumption, cost savings and the provision of solutions to achieve the cost savings target of Putrajaya Hospital. The characteristics and location of the building were recognised at the beginning of the research. Besides, this study was continued by identifying the lighting system presented at Putrajaya Hospital and the electricity tariff published by Tenaga Nasional Bhd. The calculation of energy consumption and cost for each floor of the main building, starting from the first floor to the fifth floor proposed the energy saving method. Four potential savings methods are proposed later in this research which include the switch to LED lighting saving potential, occupancy sensor, regular maintenance, and reduce light operation hour by using the alternate system. The result was found that energy consumption can be reduced up to 73.38% by switching the current lamp to LED lamp.
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Jideofor Anselm, Akubue, Salman Mohammed, Salihu Tyabo, and Abdulkadir Mohammed. "Study of Spatial Disorientation and Wayfinding Challenges in Buildings Using Axial Analysis: A Case of Hospital Buildings in Nigeria." Journal of Architectural Environment & Structural Engineering Research 7, no. 1 (March 10, 2024): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/jaeser.v7i1.6233.
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All living creatures rely on spatial orientation to navigate through familiar environments. For humans, everyday activities depend on spatial orientation for navigating routes from outside locations to final destinations. The study suggests that the larger buildings get, the more the challenges of spatial orientation for their users. Likewise, building forms and configurations impact significantly on the course of wayfinding. In the case of hospitals, spatial configuration has been identified as significant in influencing human movements, performances of users and efficiency of services. This paper analyses the layout configurations of selected large hospital buildings in Nigeria using axial lines and relates the analysis with spatial orientation and wayfinding process. The aim of the study was to identify the extent of the impact of building layout configuration on spatial orientation and wayfinding process. The three large-sized hospitals selected for the study presented different scenarios which identified simplicities and complexities of building layout configurations as significant in the process of wayfinding. A comparative summary of the three hospitals in the study suggests that the less complex hospital layout presented the least spatial disorientation effect. This is mostly due to the linear sightlines utilized in the layout configuration design with fewer turns that enable visual connectivity to destination points thus indicating lesser challenges for wayfinding.
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Samoilov, V. O., and N. V. Milasheva. "From the hospital barracks to the general hospitals at the Vyborg Side." Bulletin of the Russian Military Medical Academy 21, no. 2 (December 15, 2019): 267–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/brmma25956.
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For our study, we used lots of documentary materials from the collections of the Russian State Historical Archive in Saint Petersburg, documents from the funds of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts in Moscow relating to the construction of an architectural complex of buildings of the general hospitals at the Vyborg Side in the epoch of Peter the Great. All the facts of the history of construction of the general hospitals are confirmed by archival documents, including decrees and orders by Peter I on the construction of hospital buildings, contractors hiring, by official documents and protocols of the Chancellery of buildings on the non-completed construction of wattle and daub huts for hospital purposes as well as by documents on the run-away contractors, on the demolition of wattle and daub huts and transfer of buildings to Admiralty college«for use as cable sheds», about the stay of the sick and wounded in old wooden hospitals, by documents on the construction of stone buildings of the Admiralty (Marine) and Land military hospitals, the correspondence of the Chancellery of buildings with the Military and the Admiralty collegia, by contractors’ agreements, reports by D. Trezzini on the construction of wattle and daub huts (1718) and stone hospital buildings («Part of hospital buildings at the Vyborg Side…», 1720), reports by D. Trezzini on the prolonged period of construction works and other documents. The study shall be continued.
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Zielisa Nur Qadimah and N. Vinky Rahman. "Reliability Analysis of Fire Stairs in Hospital Buildings (Case Study: Malahayati Islamic Hospital and University of North Sumatra Hospital)." International Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 3, no. 3 (November 18, 2019): 310–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/ijau.v3i3.3747.
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One important aspect of hospital buildings is the safety of the occurrence of fire hazards, especially in the fire stairs. The hospital is classified as very crowded because of the large number of inpatients or outpatients who consult at the Malahayati Islamic Hospital or the University of North Sumatra Hospital, both middle and upper-middle class. Because the density level of occupants in hospital buildings is high, it requires a fire ladder that meets the standards, how to apply the fire ladder reliability system and its future recommendations on the Malahayati Islamic Hospital building and the University of North Sumatra Hospital. This study aims to determine the application and analyze the level of reliability of fire stairs in hospital buildings. This study uses data analysis method, namely AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) which is based on very effective research to help solve problems in the fire stairs reliability system in the case study of the Islamic Hospital Malahayati, the level of reliability is sufficient, while the University of North Sumatra Hospital has a very good level of reliability. Several design recommendations were made and tested to increase the reliability of fire stairs at Malahayati Islamic Hospital and the University of North Sumatra Hospital; the results can be improved.
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Soyler, Ibrahim, and Ercan Izgi. "Electricity Demand Forecasting of Hospital Buildings in Istanbul." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (July 5, 2022): 8187. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14138187.
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Electricity demand forecasting is essential for utilities. For the consumer, predictability of demand is vital for efficient operation, installation, sizing and maintenance planning. Hospitals, which are among the institutions with high-energy consumption, provide uninterrupted service 24 h a day, 7 days a week. Every hospital building is unique, and many do not conform to a typical shape or floor plan. Depending on the services provided, each hospital can differ significantly in terms of energy demand. Therefore, demand forecasting is one of the most complex elements of hospital construction. Although there are many studies on energy optimization related to hospital buildings in the literature, there is a knowledge gap regarding the maximum power estimation of hospitals. In this study, the annual electrical energy use of 23 public hospitals with over 100 beds in Istanbul is measured, and after determining the monthly peak loads, two new forecasting models are generated using regression techniques for maximum demand forecasting. It is determined that the design criteria used in power calculations in hospitals was very high. A positive result was obtained from the linear regression technique, which is one of the basic regression techniques, and it was shown that the maximum power needs of the hospital can be estimated with great confidence by determining a new design factor in the light of the determined values. This study allows designers to set maximum demands and select transformer and generator sizes with a single formula.
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Soldatova, Liudmila, and Sulaiman Jumukov. "Seismic isolation of hospital buildings." Smart Structures and Systems 2, no. 4 (October 25, 2006): 329–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/sss.2006.2.4.329.
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Shaikh, Javeria Manzoor, Khan Muhammad Brohi, and Sabeen Qureshi. "Identifying the Wasted Spaces within Hospital Buildings in Pakistan." July 2019 38, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 799–818. http://dx.doi.org/10.22581/muet1982.1903.22.
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The built environment of hospital buildings are generally not accepted to be pleasant. In the design of healthcare facility, it is quite important that its design, spatial arrangement and areal distribution must respond to curative needs of people so as the outcome emerge in the form of healing environment in the physical spaces.This kind of healing environment is quite adequately available in the developed countries of the global north. However; in developing countries of the global south like Pakistan, the healing environment in healthcare facilities is neither documented nor evident in any available published literature. Whereas, it needs to be well documented and analyzed. Thus, this study aims to identify the healing environment in two selected hospital buildings in Pakistan that is ICP (Peshawar Institute of Cardiology) and FCP (FC Hospital Peshawar) by determining the percentage of wasted spaces within the building. The selected buildings are analyzed from the following aspects; circulation pattern in the hospital, accessibility, connectivity and barrier free movement within buildings, along with the walkability status of over stressed staff inside the hospital building while navigating, functionality of the schematic designs, the problem of the users concerning repetitiveness in their circulation pattern and the way to increase the efficiency of spaces, their spread and flow in the hospital building. In general, three key factors were investigated in this study, therefore, design determinents, areal distribution and adequate spatial organization. In this regard, total eight design determinants were investigated, i.e. entry, parking, waiting area, connectivity, visibility, walkability, accessibility, and way finding. Study approached the spatial simulation method therefore 3M analysis which is a Japanese model referred as Muda (waste), Muri (over burden), Mura (unevenness) based on the Kaizen theory for eliminating wasted spaces from Hospital buildings. Based on the findings and through the approached tools, the waste spaces within the hospital buildings were removed up to 40%.
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Shohet, Igal M. "Building evaluation methodology for setting maintenance priorities in hospital buildings." Construction Management and Economics 21, no. 7 (October 2003): 681–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144619032000115562.
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Deng, Qingtan, Chenxia Jiao, Guangbin Wang, Xiaoyi Song, and Jiayao Zang. "A Study on the Layout of Hospital Ward Buildings in Cold Regions of China Based on the Efficiency of Nurse Rounds." Buildings 13, no. 6 (May 29, 2023): 1399. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13061399.
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As an important public facility, the number, area, and scale of hospital buildings are growing rapidly. The efficiency of nurses’ rounds to beds is an important indicator of the efficiency of nursing units in ward buildings. Ward buildings occupy a very important position in the overall energy consumption of hospital building complexes. The type and scale of nursing unit floorplans are some of the key factors affecting the energy consumption of ward buildings. In this paper, three typical floorplan layout types of hospital ward buildings in cold regions of China are selected. The relationships between rounding efficiency, building energy consumption, floorplan layout, and building size were quantified using Origin based on linear regression and non-linear regression. The study showed that at 60 beds, the efficiency of nurse rounds was 35.68% higher in the double-corridor layout compared to the single-corridor. At 44 beds, the difference in average bed energy consumption between the double-corridor type and the single-corridor type is the greatest, with a 9.02% saving in energy consumption. This result confirms that the layout and scale of the ward building has a significant impact on the efficiency of nursing unit rounds and building energy efficiency.
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Mungmunpuntipantip, Rujittika, and Viroj Wiwanitkit. "Building Pathology and COVID-19: A Literature Review and Commentary on Field Hospital Setting." International Journal of Real Estate Studies 15, no. 1 (June 23, 2021): 112–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/intrest.v15n1.14.
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In 2019, there was an emerging disease, namely Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). This disease firstly emerged in Asia before there was a worldwide spreading. COVID-19 is highly contagious. The pandemic results in more than 100 million infections worldwide (by the end of January 2021). Each country has to have a good public health plan to correspond with the increasing number of the patient. To correspond with the rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 patients, finding for sufficient space for patient care is needed. The presently available number of hospitals might be limited and it usually requires an urgent setting of the new building for management of the situation. The field hospital is usually set. In this work, the authors performed a retrospective literature review to summarize the available data on building pathology and COVID-19. The aim of the study is about the quality of the field hospital buildings and the defects in the buildings. The standard databases, SCOPUS and PubMED are used for literature searching. The derived publications are summarized and extracted for a conclusion. According to the literature analysis, there are very few publications on the topic of building pathology of a field hospital for COVID-19 containment. The role of field hospital in outbreak management is confirmed in thee literature. However, the specific report regarding building pathology of field hospital is limited. The newly constructed field hospital is usually in the rapid emergency mode. Based on the present analysis, it can show that there is a lack of concern on building pathology of the field hospital. Due to the rapid construction of field hospitals for COVID-19 outbreak management, the quality control and standardization are important. Further researches on the building pathology and quality management of field hospital are recommended.
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Hama Radha, Chro. "Retrofitting for Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in the Hospital Building." Sustainability 15, no. 4 (February 14, 2023): 3464. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15043464.
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A growing body of research shows that retrofitting practices can potentially reduce energy demand in hospital buildings and enhance indoor air quality. Yet, there is a lack of comprehensive reviews associated with green retrofitting practices in hospital buildings. This study aimed to undertake a systematic review of the past literature on retrofitting techniques used to improve indoor air quality and energy efficiency in hospital buildings, to identify barriers to its uptake, and to recommend solutions to identified challenges. For this reason, a systematic review was conducted for the published research from various academic databases. Findings showed a growing uptake of various retrofitting strategies for indoor air quality in hospital buildings. As a result, hospital management or building owners might consider addressing these challenges to facilitate the uptake and implementation of retrofitting practices in their facilities.
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Aalto, Leena, Sanna Lappalainen, Heidi Salonen, and Kari Reijula. "Usability evaluation (IEQ survey) in hospital buildings." International Journal of Workplace Health Management 10, no. 3 (June 5, 2017): 265–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijwhm-03-2016-0014.
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Purpose As hospital operations are undergoing major changes, comprehensive methods are needed for evaluating the indoor environment quality (IEQ) and usability of workspaces in hospital buildings. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework of the characteristics that have an impact on the usability of work environments for hospital renovations, and to use this framework to illustrate the usability evaluation process in the real environment. Design/methodology/approach The usability of workspaces in hospital environments was evaluated in two hospitals, as an extension of the IEQ survey. The evaluation method was usability walk-through. The main aim was to determine the usability characteristics of hospital facility workspaces that support health, safety, good indoor air quality, and work flow. Findings The facilities and workspaces were evaluated by means of four main themes: orientation, layout solution, working conditions, and spaces for patients. The most significant usability flaws were cramped spaces, noise/acoustic problems, faulty ergonomics, and insufficient ventilation. Due to rooms being cramped, all furnishing directly caused functionality and safety problems in these spaces. Originality/value The paper proposes a framework that links different design characteristics to the usability of hospital workspaces that need renovation.
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Dwi Pratama, Andhika Ronald, Jojok Widodo Soetjipto, and Krisnamurti Krisnamurti. "Evaluation of Building Vulnerability to Earthquake Using Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) Method." Jurnal Teknik Sipil dan Perencanaan 23, no. 2 (October 28, 2021): 114–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/jtsp.v23i2.31399.
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Indonesia is one of the countries prone to earthquakes. One of the earthquake disasters that occurred several years ago hit Palu and Donggala on September 28, 2018. It caused severe damage to infrastructure. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate buildings vulnerable to earthquakes as a form of prevention. One of the buildings in Jember, the dr. Soebandi hospital, experienced cracks in the walls during an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale in Nusa Dua Bali on July 16, 2019. This study carried out the risk assessment of the vulnerability of buildings to earthquakes using the Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) method from FEMA P-154. RVS is a method to identify a building that is potentially vulnerable to earthquake hazards based on visual observations from the exterior and interior of the building. The results of the evaluation using the RVS method showed that the dr. Soebandi hospital is categorized as safe and not prone to earthquakes, with a potential vulnerability percentage of 0.0126%. Based on these results, the building does not require special treatment to anticipate earthquakes; however, maintaining the occupants' safety and extending the building's life requires routine maintenance.
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Jesumoroti, Christtestimony Oluwafemi, and Khor Soo Cheen. "Critical Insight into Defects in Malaysia Hospital Buildings Maintenance Management." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 945, no. 1 (December 1, 2021): 012055. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/945/1/012055.
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Abstract Healthcare buildings require efficient maintenance management to afford patients, visitors, and other users of hospital buildings such as healthcare professionals a serene and safe environment that accelerates wellbeing and provides maximum comfort. To achieve this goal, hospital buildings must adopt effective maintenance management approaches and services. Apart from ensuring the safety of the environment, users of the buildings must be satisfied with the quality of available services, particularly, those offered to patients. Against this backdrop, this study assesses the effects of defects on hospital buildings and analyzes the practicality of maintenance best practices such as sufficient allocations of funds and appropriate management of resources (including time and labor) towards the improvement of the prevalent status quo. This is important because the maintenance practices employed in hospitals intrinsically impact the performance of the hospital buildings as a result of defects. Survey questionnaires were administered to users of hospital buildings in Malaysia. The most significant defects reported concerned Algae on concrete floors, weather and climate conditions, and sanitary appliance & fittings damages. These defects depreciate the appearance, functionality and utility of hospital buildings thereby lessening their performance and efficiency. Therefore, this study asserts the pertinence of reevaluating the maintenance management approaches employed towards the rectification of the highlighted defects in hospital buildings across Malaysia. The study posits the adoption of systemic proactive maintenance procedures to preempt decay, causalities and reduce cost implications.
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Abdullatief AL Taie, Huda, Basim Hasan Hashim Almajidi, and Ahmed Hashim Hameed El-Eqapy. "The role of technology in shaping the coexistence of local hospital buildings." BIO Web of Conferences 97 (2024): 00095. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20249700095.
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Architecture is one of the reflections of the development of societies and an indication of the extent of their development from the technological aspect, as this results in products characterized by uniqueness and positivity, as the role of technology is highlighted in the occurrence of symbiotic interference on existing buildings, especially hospital buildings, because this type of building has a constant need for expansion, so the relationship between the origin and the symbiont differs. Depending on the time of addition and the subsequent technological developments that give possibilities and possibilities for coexistence, in addition to the factor of the surrounding environment, the general fabric, and the original building, the important role in determining patterns for reconfiguration of coexistence. However, the concept of technology has the fundamental role in determining the type of relationship and connection and its degree between two cities, as the research aims to clarify the perception. Knowledge about the impact of technology on existing local hospital buildings in terms of materials, structures and mechanisms used when merging old and new, and applying the theoretical framework that has been reached on two samples of existing local hospitals and showing how to achieve the coexistence formation of this type of building to arrive at the most important conclusions (developments affect Technology on hospital configurations when adding and expanding, especially at the levels (structures - materials - facades - basic composition)).
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Fauzan, Febrin Anas Ismail, and Zev Al Jauhari. "Structural Response and Pounding of Andalas University Hospital Building Using New Indonesian Seismic Code SNI 1726-2012." Applied Mechanics and Materials 845 (July 2016): 274–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.845.274.
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Keywords: Earthquake, Internal Forces, Displacement, Response Spectrum Analysis, Time History Analysis, PoundingAbstract. Teaching Hospital is an educational facilitiy for students in the Faculty of Medicine and also as a health services for the general public. The hospital building must be built in accordance with earthquake-safe building standards, so that buildings are not damaged in an earthquake. Andalas University Hospital was built at Padang in 2014 which was designed using Indonesian Seismic Code SNI 03-1726-2002 with quakes zone 6. Since 2012, a new Seismic Code, SNI 1726-2012, was issued and all the buildings should be designed by using the new code. Therefore, the authors are interested in analyzing the structural response of the hospital building by using new seismic code SNI 1726-2012. The results, then, were compared with the responses of the structure which calculated by using SNI 03-1726-2002.The results of analysis show that the structural responses in the internal forces and displacement by using SNI 1726-2012 was higher than those using SNI 03-1726-2002. In this study, an analysis of potential Pounding was also conducted by using dynamic analysis Time History method. The analytical result shows that there is no pounding between adjacent buildings at Andalas University Hospital Buildings.
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Song, Yuxian, Xiyu Zhang, and Zhuwei Xu. "Layout Optimization of M Hospital based on SLP." Academic Journal of Management and Social Sciences 3, no. 2 (June 26, 2023): 100–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ajmss.v3i2.10262.
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At present, the comprehensive functions of hospitals are becoming increasingly complex and diversified, and the scale of buildings is also showing a trend of large and comprehensive development. The functional layout of hospitals continues to highlight its importance. However, there are still issues with the functional layout of hospital building facilities that do not meet or conform to the current medical service functions and service processes. Based on this, this article takes M Hospital as an example to analyze its logistics and non-logistics lines, and optimizes the layout of M Hospital based on the SLP method, in order to provide certain reference and guidance for the layout of hospitals in the same industry.
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Xu, Xing Liang, Zeng Wei Sun, and Liang Jia. "Monitoring Study of Guang'anmen Hospital Outpatient Building Foundation Pit Excavation." Applied Mechanics and Materials 501-504 (January 2014): 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.501-504.88.
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Monitoring is playing an important role on the building under construction (especially in deep foundation construction phase). By professional, scientific and timely monitoring, reliable monitoring data and information on security incidents that may occur can be provided timely. In this paper, Guang'anmen Hospital outpatient building foundation pit project was analyzed. The horizontal displacement at the top of supporting structure and settlement of the surrounding buildings were discussed. The results show that the horizontal displacement and the impact on surrounding buildings is within a permissible range, which entailed the safety of the foundation pit.
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Dobosi, Ioan Silviu, Cristina Tanasa, Nicoleta-Elena Kaba, Adrian Retezan, and Dragos Mihaila. "Building energy modelling for the energy performance analysis of a hospital building in various locations." E3S Web of Conferences 111 (2019): 06073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911106073.
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The building sector has been identified as having the greatest energy reduction potential and therefore represents a key factor for the European Union climate change combat objectives of achieving an 80-95% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2050. Hospitals buildings represent 7% of the nonresidential building stock in the European Union and are responsible for approximately 10% of the total energy consumption in this sector. The design and construction of hospital buildings is a complex and challenging activity for all the involved specialists, especially when energy performance is one of the objectives. This paper discusses the energy performance simulation on an hourly basis of a new hospital building that was constructed in the city of Mioveni, Romania. At this stage of the study, the building energy model solely investigates the performance of the building envelope, without modelling the HVAC system. The complexity of the building model derives from the multitude of thermal zones depending on interior temperature and ventilation air changes conditions. Several simulations are performed investigating the heating and cooling energy need depending on the building location.