Active Projects

The Design of Sustainable Healthcare Infrastructure: Improving Resilience, Energy and Waste Management

This project aims to develop a framework to enhance the sustainability of healthcare facilities, initially focussing on improving resilience, and reducing energy consumption (Project title: A Framework for Refurbishment of healthcare Facilities) and construction waste (Project title: Reducing Construction Waste in Healthcare facilities: A Project Lifecycle Approach). The project is treated as three different projects (resilience, energy and waste minimisation).

Project Facts

Start date: January 2008
End date: December 2010
Investigators Professor Andrew Price; Dr. Jaqueline Glass; Mohammed Osmani
Staff Employed RA- Nebil Achour; RS- Amey Sheth; RS- Niluka Domingo
Status Active

Project Partners

  • DH East Midlands
  • NHS East Midlands and Centre for Health Assets Australia
  • BWB (Integrated Engineering and Environmental Consultants)
  • CABE
  • World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction
  • WHO
  • Kanazawa University (Japan)
  • National Chen Kung University (Taiwan)
  • Nottingham University Hospitals

Project Partners

HaCIRIC
Department of Civil and Building Engineering
Loughborough University
Ashby Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
T: +44 (0) 15 0922 2627
E: a.d.f.price(at)lboro(dot)ac(dot)uk