EH&E Energy Project Receives IFMA Boston Award of Excellence
Good Samaritan Medical Center Recognized for Best Practice in Sustainability
NEEDHAM, Mass. — EH&E’s energy optimization project at Good Samaritan Medical Center, a hospital in the Steward Health Care Network, has received top honors in the Best Practice Sustainable Building Operations by a Building Owner category at the International Facilities Management Association’s (IFMA) Boston Awards of Excellence ceremony. The award was presented to Steward Health Care on behalf of Good Samaritan based on “the team whose facility management program, project, system, innovation, or idea has had a substantial, positive effect on the success of their organization.”
The project goal was to reduce energy consumption by a minimum of 10 percent without installing expensive capital equipment. The program achieved energy savings through an analysis of the HVAC system and hospital operations, and then optimizing the use and performance of the existing HVAC equipment and implementing low-cost improvements. It involved close collaboration between EH&E team members and Good Samaritan’s operations staff, and achieved a final savings of over 14 percent for the year.