Decarbonize Healthcare with IESVE

Industry leading tools for the design & retrofit of efficient healthcare facilities

Deliver Energy Efficient, Carbon-Conscious Healthcare Buildings

With 24/7 operations and criticial health and safety standards to maintain, healthcare buildings are some of the most challenging to decarbonize. Whether a new construction project or retrofit, our best-in-class building performance modeling software empowers designers, engineers and healthcare operators to substantially reduce energy consumption and operating costs, minimize use of natural gas, and define the pathway towards an electrified, decarbonized healthcare sector. All while optimizing the internal environment for patients, staff and visitors through one central modeling tool.

Minimize Loads & Energy Costs

HVAC Sizing & Optimization

Optimize IAQ & Ventilation Safety

Comply with Codes/Standards

Electrification & Renewables

Refine Control Strategies

Minimize Loads & Optimize HVAC Design

IESVE streamlines quick and easy loads calculations into energy modeling workflows to help design engineers iterate on healthcare building design and minimize loads. Unlocking efficiencies across even the most energy intensive facilities while maintaining critical systems and occupant requirements.

Accurate (sub)-hourly loads calculations powered by the leading APACHE engine
Detailed HVAC sizing and optimization for airside, plant & waterside systems
Minimize excessive cooling & reheat energy, e.g. with variable air volume (VAV) systems & displacement ventilation (DV)
Leverage unique Heat Acquisition & Rejection Coil (HARC) modeling capability with advanced control logic to reflect real building operations
Optimize building envelope performance to minimize unwanted heat loss/gain
Zone systems & refine control strategies to match realistic occupancy schedules
HVAC system optimization across all climate zones

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Comply with Building Codes & Design Standards

We offer the industry’s most comprehensive suite of approved solutions to comply with various building codes, regulations, design standards and rating systems globally. Leverage built-in navigators and streamlined workflows to cost-effectively meet & exceed performance requirements for healthcare projects.

Integrate ASHRAE Standard 170 Supply, Exhaust & Ventilation Air Requirements and other global IAQ standards
Approved solutions for ASHRAE 90.1, Florida Building Code, California Title 24, NECB, IECC, Part L, Estidama, AIA 2030, LEED, BREEAM and more
Software outputs aligned to the WELL Standard, including thermal comfort indices for ASHRAE 55, indoor air quality, mean age of air, visual comfort & daylight

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Explore Electrification & Decarbonization Strategies

Our comprehensive modeling functionality makes it possible to explore the potential for a wide range of low impact energy systems, heat recovery and design strategies that support the shift towards electrification and away from burning fossil fuels.

Simulate the impact of passive design strategies (solar shading, daylighting, natural ventilation, etc.)
Integrate systems for simultaneous heating & cooling demands: Heat Recovery Chillers, CHP, reversible heat pumps and other low carbon alternatives
Explore potential for renewable energy technologies, energy storage & load shifting strategies
Quantify GHG reductions based on regional grid emission factors
Pursue decarbonization targets and performance pathways to qualify for funding, recognition, or higher-tier municipal permitting

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Optimize Occupant Comfort & Wellbeing

Many healthcare facilities are using 30-40% more natural gas than needed to meet indoor air quality standards. Our integrated tools enable holistic assessment of energy, thermal comfort and ventilation to identify strategies that target waste, without compromising patient safety.

Leverage CFD to ensure safe conditions in critical areas such as operating rooms, isolation rooms, and intensive care units
Simulate air changes per hour (ACH), supply airflow, humidity and space pressurization criteria to comply with various standards (e.g. ASHRAE 170, CSA Z317.2-19, HTM 03-01, etc.)
Assess impacts on occupant thermal comfort (PPD, PMV & operative temperature)
Optimize ventilation strategies to minimize energy consumption, while reducing the risk of infectious disease transmission

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Service Hot Water Systems

While meeting continuous hot water demand in healthcare facilities is critical, this often goes against energy efficiency and decarbonization goals. IESVE can be used to model a range of innovative methods & technologies to help ensure supply reliability, without compromising efficiency.

Evaluate preheating strategies using solar panels, condenser water loops, heat transfer loops and water-source heat exchange
Explore how to meet heating demands with heat pumps, boilers or heat-recovery chillers
Integrate domestic hot water (DHW) storage tanks
Utilize recirculation loops & pumps to maintain consistent hot water availability
Simulate drain water heat recovery to capture and reuse energy from wastewater

IESVE: Whole-Building Performance Simulation Software

Trusted by building design experts globally, IESVE is an integrated suite of performance analysis tools for the design and optimization of buildings. Powered by the world-leading APACHE simulation engine, it enables in-depth analysis of a range of performance metrics within a single, centralized platform to enhance workflow efficiency and collaboration.

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Case Studies

UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital

Mazzetti and Arup leveraged IESVE's advanced modeling capabilities to deliver significant operational energy reductions and meet high-performance building targets for the UCSF Health facility, which aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2045.

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Net Zero Energy Medical Facility, Santa Rosa

Introba used IESVE to deliver the first ever LEED Zero Energy certified medical facility in North America, uncovering ~$1 million in mechanical cost savings and securing a LEED Platinum certification.

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The Glick Center, MetroHealth

HGA used IESVE in this award winning project to help MetroHealth’s Glick Center achieve LEED Silver certification, identifying $434,500 in energy cost savings, 54% carbon emissions savings and 36% site energy savings over the ASHRAE 90.1 baseline.

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Boca Raton Hospital, Florida

TLC Engineering Solutions used IESVE to ensure the hospital complied with the 2020 Florida Building Energy Code. The team used the software to generate accurate heating, cooling and ventilation loads calculations, in accordance with ASHRAE 170 and 62.1, and identified 40% energy savings through a range of energy conservation measures.

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Overlake Medical Center, Seattle

UMC produced a highly accurate IESVE energy model, calibrated with operational data, to simulate and analyze a range of energy efficiency measures for Overlake Medical Center. The project helped the facility comply with the Washington State Clean Buildings Standard and identified a 45% reduction in total energy consumption.

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St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver

Edge Consultants used IESVE to support the design of this state-of-the-art acute care hospital in line with British Columbia’s CleanBC Roadmap. The project team were able to meet 90% of the facility’s annual thermal heating energy with heat recovery chillers, demonstrating actionable pathways to net-zero-ready infrastructure and lowering the facility’s carbon impact by 50,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year.

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NHS, UK

This proof of concept study used IESVE to demonstrate a replicable approach to decarbonising NHS estates using digital twins. A net-zero roadmap of various retrofit and energy conservation measures uncovered a 65% predicted reduction in total CO2 emissions across the sites analysed.

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Resources

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CFD Simulation for Hospital Operating Rooms

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Simulating Ventilation Strategies to Reduce Indoor Infectious Disease Transmission

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Solar Hot-Water Preheating Systems in IESVE

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Fuel Switching & CO2 Refrigerant Heat Pumps for Low Ambient Building and DWH Heat

Get in Touch

Contact our team to learn more about how IESVE can support your next healthcare project.

Capella Building, 7th Floor, 60 York Street, Glasgow, G2 8JX, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 Email: enquiries@iesve.com