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A New Healthcare Initiative Promises Leadership in Green Building (July 24, 2008)
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Resources
Goals
- Green Guide for Healthcare
Construction
The Green Guide for Healthcare is the premier green building guide for the health care industry and a transformational new tool for building hospitals that are healthy for people and the environment. Similar in structure to the USGBC LEED system but addresses the
particular structural, usage, and regulatory challenges of healthcare
buildings and emphasizes environmental & public health issues.
GGHC Fact sheet (PDF)
PowerPoint presentation slide handout
on the GGHC as presented at Green Into Gold workshop April 2004.
(PDF)
- ASHE
Green Healthcare Construction Guidance Statement
(PDF)
Vision statement and comprehensive check list of green design
and construction goals and strategies developed by the American
Society for Healthcare Engineering.
- Green
Building Priorities for Healthcare (PDF)
Priority setting for green construction in healthcare developed
by the Building Green Health Care work group of the Healthy Building
Network and Health Care Without Harm.
- Green
and Healthy Buildings for the Healthcare Industry
(PDF)
Article by Gail Vittori of the Center for Maximum Potential Building
Systems on planning for a green healthcare facility.
- Kaiser Permanente Position
Statement on Green Buildings (PDF)
Mission statement from Kaiser on green construction in its healthcare
facilities.
- Kaiser Permanente Eco Tool
Kit (PDF)
Guide developed by Kaiser for use by its design teams based upon
the ASHE Guidance Statement, LEED and internal research on green
construction in its healthcare facilities.
Selecting Healthy Materials
- Future of Fabric
Analysis of health and environmental challenges raised by fabrics used in healthcare buildings and analysis of trends in the industry to solve these issues
- Designing the 21st Century Hospital
Series of papers surveying issues in design, construction and operation of hospitals to improve the health, environment and social impact.
Includes Mark Rossi & Tom Lent's “Creating Safe and Healthy Spaces: Selecting Materials that Support Healing” evaluation of different plastics
used in healthcare construction and operations for preferability on health and environmental criteria
- Kaiser Permanente Antimicrobial Analysis
Analysis of the efficacy and hazards of antimicrobial use in building materials by Kaiser Permanente
- Kaiser Permanente EPP Policy
Environmental preferability policy adopted by Kaiser Permanente for selecting materials with better health profile
- CHPS
1350 Specifications (PDF)
Review of the progressive specifications developed by and now
in use by the State of California with an emphasis on their treatment
of indoor air quality issues and discussion of issues for healthcare.
- Key
Questions for Environmentally Preferable Building Materials Selection
(PDF)
Questions to ask a manufacturer to understand the life cycle impact
of a building material or product
Presentations
Conferences
- Clean
Med Conference
International health care conference on environmentally preferable products and green building design and construction. This conference covers green practices in purchasing and construction in healthcare institutions. The web site has archived copies of the presentations from 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2006, plus information on the upcoming conference in 2008.
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