Overview:

Summary: Keeping hospitals cool can help protect patients. New hospitals or renovations should be proactively designed to keep the building cool through its orientation and construction.

Implementation: Require new hospitals to adhere to cool building design standards with an emphasis on passive cooling strategies.

Considerations for Use: Preparation for extreme heat can help hospitals prepare for other climate events.

• Policy Levers:
  
  
  MandateMandates are government regulations that require stakeholders to meet standards through building codes, ordinances, zoning policies, or other regulatory tools.
• Trigger Points:
  
  
  Introducing new or updated zoning/codesIncludes codes, zoning requirements or by-laws pertaining to urban planning and building construction activity.
• Intervention Type:
  Buildings and Built Form
• Sectors:
  Emergency management, Informal Settlements, Public Health

Impact:

• Target Beneficiaries:
  Heat-vulnerable communities, Residents
• Phase of Impact:
  Emergency response and management
• Metrics:
  Decrease in power outages, Energy savings

Case Studies:

• Smart Hospital Project in the Caribbean (RCCC, Pg 78)

Implementation:

• Intervention Scale:
  Building
• Authority and Governance:
  City government, State/provincial government
• Implementation Timeline:
  Long-term (10+ Years)
• Implementation Stakeholders:
  City government, State/provincial government
• Funding Sources:
  private investment
• Capacity to Act:
  High, Medium

Benefits:

• Cost-Benefit:
  Medium
• Public Good:
  Low
• GHG Reduction:
  N/A
• Co-benefits (Climate/Environmental):
  N/A
• Co-benefits (Social):
  Improve human health, Save on utilities