Choosing Measures for Energy Efficient Hospital Buildings

The improvement of the energy efficiency of a complex system such as an existing large non-residential building, requires multi-disciplinary engineering knowledge, practices and teams, as well as support from equally complex software tools and modelling methodologies, especially during the initial planning and feasibility assessment phases of relevant projects. In this paper, the peculiarities of the special case of hospital buildings are discussed and a number of use cases are described, identifying significant components and setting the basic needed tooling interventions and methodology steps in order to address the complexity of assessment of different energy conservation measures