Boston Hospital Project May Be One of the Greenest
The $315 million expansion proposed at Brigham and Women's Hospital will not only be the hospital's biggest construction project in decades, it could also be one of the most environmentally friendly medical facilities in the country.
The $315 million expansion proposed at Brigham and Women's Hospital will not only be the hospital's biggest construction project in decades, it could also be one of the most environmentally friendly medical facilities in the country, The Boston Globe reported. The hospital’s administrators say they are applying to the U.S. Green Building Council to become only the second U.S. hospital to win the group's environmental seal of approval.
Brigham's vice president of support services said hospital administrators get nervous mainly because conservation standards can be expensive to meet for facilities that are open 24 hours a day, generate large amounts of infectious waste, and use enormous amounts of both air conditioning and water.
Architects are still designing the expansion, which includes a new 13-floor wing with 150 beds and 16 operating rooms, but Brigham officials have already hired Environmental Health and Engineering of Newton to make sure environmental considerations are included from using nontoxic building materials to energy-efficient windows. The Green Building Council requires construction to meet about 100 environmental standards to win its support.
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