Aerial view of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center at Huntsman Cancer Institute, Utah

Healthcare Building Energy Consulting Projects

Healthcare buildings often have demanding operating schedules, ventilation requirements, process loads, humidity controls and specialized spaces. These conditions require careful analysis when evaluating energy performance and efficiency strategies.

Griffin EnerG Consulting provides energy modeling and building-performance consulting for hospitals, medical education facilities, veterinary medicine buildings, medical offices and other healthcare-related projects.

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Interior of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center

Energy Analysis for Healthcare Buildings

Griffin EnerG Consulting helps healthcare owners and design teams evaluate the interaction between energy use, building systems, project requirements and long-term performance.

Depending on the project, our healthcare consulting services may include:

Whole-building energy modeling
Energy-use intensity benchmarking
Performance-based energy code compliance analysis
LEED-related energy modeling and technical support
Utility-incentive analysis and coordination
HVAC sizing and load-reduction analysis
Life-cycle cost analysis
Post-occupancy performance evaluation
Energy audits for existing buildings

For healthcare projects, Griffin EnerG Consulting focuses on energy modeling, building-performance analysis, energy code compliance, certification-related support, utility-incentive consulting, and post-occupancy evaluation. GEC does not provide architectural design, construction, renewable energy system installation, or emergency power system design.

Healthcare Project Experience

The Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women's Cancers

Location

Utah

Building Area

220,000 SF

GEC Services

Energy-use intensity benchmarking, LEED certification support, central-plant analysis, life-cycle cost analysis, and post-occupancy performance evaluation

Certification

LEED v4 Gold

Griffin EnerG Consulting supported the energy-performance and certification goals for this major cancer-care expansion. As part of the project's central-plant analysis, GEC evaluated chiller options under both full-load and part-load operating conditions, helping the project team compare first cost, operating cost, and long-term efficiency impacts before equipment selection. The consulting scope continued after occupancy with an evaluation of building operating performance.

Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine

Location

Utah

Building Area

185,000 SF

GEC Services

Energy-use intensity benchmarking, LEED-related support, and laboratory ventilation energy analysis

Griffin EnerG Consulting provided energy analysis supporting a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of laboratory ventilation and quantified the energy impact of reducing the outdoor-air requirement. The analysis helped the project team evaluate how ventilation decisions would affect overall building energy performance.

USU Thomas & Patricia Willis Veterinary Medical Education Building

Location

Utah

Building Area

106,500 SF

GEC Services

Energy-use intensity benchmarking and LEED-related support

Griffin EnerG Consulting supported the performance and certification requirements of this specialized veterinary teaching and research facility.

James LeVoy Sorenson Center for Medical Innovation

Location

Utah

Building Area

60,000 SF

GEC Services

Energy-use intensity benchmarking, LEED-related support, utility-incentive consulting, and resilience-related energy analysis

Griffin EnerG Consulting provided energy-performance consulting for this medical innovation facility containing laboratories, clinical simulation areas, collaboration spaces, and start-up incubation functions. GEC assisted the project team in evaluating whether an electric boiler was needed to supplement the building's thermal storage system during extreme weather events, including the potential boiler capacity and cost implications. The analysis helped the team weigh resilience, first cost, operating impacts, and system performance before finalizing the approach.

ICON Medical Office Building

Location

Utah

Building Area

66,000 SF

GEC Service

Level 1 energy audit, performed with support from a qualified subcontractor

Griffin EnerG Consulting provided a Level 1 energy audit for this existing medical office building, with field assessment support from a qualified subcontractor. The audit identified potential energy-saving measures related to equipment operating temperatures and schedules. The walk-through also identified operational and maintenance issues that could be addressed in future work, including a failed insulated-glass-unit seal.

Evaluate Healthcare Building Performance

Griffin EnerG Consulting helps project teams evaluate energy-performance questions, compare practical strategies and document the findings needed to support design, certification and operational decisions.

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