Intelligent HVAC systems in hospitals

Reijula, Jori; Holopainen, Rauno; Kähkönen, Erkki; Reijula, Kari; Tommelein, Iris D.

doi:10.1080/17508975.2013.778192

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“…In the long run, building and maintaining a new, well-designed health-care facility may even become cheaper than maintenance of an outdated one due to, e.g. new HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems, which significantly improve energy savings (Bizzarri and Morini 2006;Vanhoudt et al 2011;Ascione et al 2013;Reijula et al 2013).…”

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Lean design improves both health-care facilities and processes: a literature review

Reijula

Nevala

Lahtinen

et al. 2014

Intelligent Buildings International

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This article presents a literature review of the challenges and possibilities for Lean design in modern health-care facilities. Many of today's health-care facilities are in dire need of renovation since limited financial resources among health-care demand improved work process efficiency, safety and employee well-being. Lean philosophy has been successfully implemented into hospitals with up-and-running hospital processes, but has not been thoroughly tested as a design methodology. The principles of Lean do not contradict with user-centric, participatory or ergonomic design approaches and thus the possibilities of using Lean as a complementary design methodology to the aforementioned approaches are discussed in this article. Lean fundamentals are also useful when dealing with change management issues. Lean offers a fundamentally solid ideology and a wide range of toolsmany of which seem fitting to solve several urgent design problems in today's health-care design.

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Lean design improves both health-care facilities and processes: a literature review

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Nevala

Lahtinen

et al. 2014

Intelligent Buildings International

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“…The facilities at H1, which was planned in the 1950s and built in 1968, were becoming obsolete: there were operation bottlenecks, problems with the quality of indoor air, frequent sewage breakdowns, and fire safety issues [7]. Renovation of the old facilities would have stipulated a temporary hospital for the duration of the work.…”

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Participative Facility Planning for Obstetrical and Neonatal Care Processes: Beginning of Life Process

Reijula

Karvonen²,

Petäjä

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Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Introduction. Old hospitals may promote inefficient patient care processes and safety. A new, functionally planned hospital presents a chance to create an environment that supports streamlined, patient-centered healthcare processes and adapts to users' needs. This study depicts the phases of a facility planning project for pregnant women and newborn care processes (beginning of life process) at Turku University Hospital. Materials and Methods. Project design reports and meeting documents were utilized to assess the beginning of life process as well as the work processes of the Women's and Children's Hospital. Results. The main elements of the facility design (FD) project included rigorous preparation for the FD phase, functional planning throughout the FD process, and setting key values: (1) family-centered care, (2) Lean thinking and Lean tools as the framework for the FD process, (3) safety, and (4) cooperation. Conclusions. A well-prepared FD project with sufficient insight into functional planning, Lean thinking, and user-centricity seemed to facilitate the actual FD process. Although challenges occurred, the key values were not forgone and were successfully incorporated into the new hospital building.

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“…A review of intelligent HVAC systems implemented in hospitals has been performed by Reijula et al . . In their research, the optimization and energy conservation techniques for HVAC systems in hospitals are presented.…”

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“…Bakos and Sismanis [30] used ANNs as a technique of modeling real nonlinear energy systems such as the flow and pressure processes related to pump and valve input voltages of a small scale central heating system aiming at low electric energy consumption in the Energy Economics Laboratory of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. A review of intelligent HVAC systems implemented in hospitals has been performed by Reijula et al [31]. In their research, the optimization and energy conservation techniques for HVAC systems in hospitals are presented.…”

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Remote control‐based energy management for energy savings in a central heating system

Şahin

Ipek

Başoğul

et al. 2016

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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In this study, to enhance the performance of a central heating system, the following tasks were performed on the system via Radio Frequency modems: collection of data, evaluation of the system, real time monitoring, remote control, and management processes. A central heating system testing apparatus and related software and hardware were developed. Both short‐time and long‐time experiments were conducted. In the experiments, Case 1, in which the system operated under ambient conditions for an hour without remote control, was compared with Case 2, in which the space temperature was kept constant at 21°C. The experimental results indicated that Case 2, in which remote control‐based energy management was conducted, resulted in 20 L of fuel savings compared to Case 1, and a 57–60% thermal efficiency was measured. As a result, a central heating system using remote control‐based energy management is more efficient, economical, and less harmful to the environment. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 36: 600–609, 2017

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Intelligent HVAC systems in hospitals

Cited by 24 publications

References 63 publications

Lean design improves both health-care facilities and processes: a literature review

Lean design improves both health-care facilities and processes: a literature review

Participative Facility Planning for Obstetrical and Neonatal Care Processes: Beginning of Life Process

Remote control‐based energy management for energy savings in a central heating system

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