First Smart Hospital in Canada
Johnson Controls enabled Smart Hospital with smart workplace solution for employee and patient comfort, health and safety.
The first “smart” hospital in Canada, facilitating a more streamlined, patient-focused delivery of healthcare services. This facility has incorporated several sustainable measures, including low overall energy use, water conservation, green roofs, and construction waste diversion; they are seeking LEED Silver Certification.
Challenges
- Newly constructed acute-care hospital for which Johnson Controls has a 30-year service agreement. In first year of operation; there is currently a high volume of work requests
- Performance-based agreement requires meeting defined targets such as temperature, humidity and negative pressure in critical spaces
- Requires a unified energy management solution
Solutions
- Johnson Controls OpenBlue technologies continuously and proactively identified HVAC issues
- Provided alerts to compliance variance and optimal performance of systems
- Automated monthly energy reporting and identified energy faults in near real-time
Results
- Reduction in preventive maintenance efforts of 600 hours per year for estimated avoided maintenance costs of $60,000 per year
- Asset Manager in first year of operation already mitigated 4,000 hours of non-compliance not captured in the BAS
- Automated reporting has reduced manual effort by 16 hours per month for an estimated annual savings of $20,000 per year
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