Energy consumption is expected to be cut by over 940,000 kWhrs annually at East London’s Newham University Hospital in a project which will see energy company E.ON work with the healthcare facility to improve its energy efficiency and reduce its carbon emissions.
The project is among the first in the London Development Agency’s (LDA) RE:FIT programme, which aims to reduce the capital’s carbon emissions by updating public buildings with energy-saving measures. E.ON has developed an Energy Performance Contract with Newham University Hospital, which guarantees the level of energy savings which will be achieved within a fixed budget. The project’s first phase involves replacing “old inefficient air handling units”, supplying wards and theatres, with modern, “significantly more energy-efficient”, systems. The new energy solution is expected to pay for itself within seven years, while cutting the hospital’s carbon emissions by more than 3,000 tonnes over the same period. The new AHUs will use heat recovery. Planned future improvements include further air handling plant replacement, and installation of dry air chiller heat recovery systems.
