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Autor:

Clark A. Reed
National Healthcare Manager, Energy Star, US Environmental Protection Agency

Introducción:

The question of how you know where you are going, unless you know where you have been is powerful. What lies at the heart of this question is the belief that you must track how far you have come in order to know how far you have left to go. In facility management, measuring progress is sometimes easier said than done. Not only is a baseline needed to benchmark from, but a clear destination is also needed. Historically, healthcare engineers in the US and
abroad have not had an easy way to gauge the energy performance of their hospitals, or for that matter a destination to shoot for. This changed in 2001.

For the past decade, thousands of hospitals, schools, hotels and other organisations have partnered with the US Environmental Protection Agency?s (EPA?s) voluntary Energy Star® programme to demonstrate environmental leadership and adopt best energy management practices that produce twice the energy savings as typical approaches. Many Energy Star partners have asked for guidance, especially for energy performance tracking tools and targets. The
response was to create the national energy performance rating system, now available to 50% of the commercial building spaces in the US, including office buildings, K-12 schools, hotels, supermarkets and hospitals.
Reed, Clark A.