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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

Exterior of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Interior of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center
Interior of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center
Interior of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center
Interior of the Kathryn F. Kirk Center

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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