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Sustainable Healthcare Design International Symposium

19 September 2024
Introduction

The climate emergency is a health emergency. The impacts of a destabilising climate are no longer confined to the global south, with more intense storms and floods, and more frequent heatwaves and wildfires now also affecting high-income countries. Amid a growing risk of infectious disease spread, threats to public health and health equity are rising, increasing the burden on the healthcare sector globally. Moreover, the sector is a major contributor to the climate crisis, producing 4.4% of global net emissions.

Sustainability

Addressing the health sustainability execution gap – the distance between aspiration and ambition and actual action and outcomes – was the topic of Dr Stephanie Allen’s keynote talk.

The talks from the Sustainable Healthcare Design 2023 International Symposium have now been published on the SALUS journal for your viewing.

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If we are to play our part in tackling the nature and climate emergency, we urgently need to rethink our approach to project delivery. As a profession, we need to make more significant, far- reaching and influential changes. And at pace. We can, and we must, transform project delivery to meet the challenge.

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This talk will set out the strategic framework her team has established to deliver a net-zero NHS estate.

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This presentation will describe the processes and outcomes of the early design development phase of one of the country’s largest New Hospital Programme schemes.

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Thinking about redundancy, operational energy, costs and digital technologies, how can we understand the best routes to decarbonisation?

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The new Velindre Cancer Centre (nVCC), a 36,000sqm new-build facility outside of Cardiff, aims to be the ‘UK’s greenest hospital’.

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Following the publication of the Net Zero National Health Service plan in October 2020, there has been a growing focus on how the NHS meets its obligations to be a net-zero carbon healthcare provider by 2040.

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