Developing an Effective Energy Conservation Program: It's Good Business Practice
Track
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Program Code:
238155
Date:
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Time:
3:15 PM to 4:30 PM
EST
Location:
WSCC: Room 606-607
PRIMARY SPEAKER
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Tom Stewart, MBA, SASHE, CHFM, CHC, Corporate Director of Facilities, Southern Illinois Healthcare
Tom Stewart is the Corporate Director of Facilities for Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) located in Carbondale, Illinois. Tom has thirty eight years of healthcare engineering experience and leads the energy conservation efforts at SIH. Tom is a Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM), a Certified Healthcare Constructor (CHC) a Senior level member of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (SASHE), received the regional leader award for ASHE region 5, and received the ASHE Crystal Eagle award in 2011. He is co-founder of the Southern Illinois Chapter for Healthcare Engineering and a has been a speaker at local chapter meetings, National Conference on Buildling Commissioning, the Midwest Conference for Healthcare Engineering, and the 48th Annual ASHE Conference. Tom is also an ASHE Faculty member.
CO-PRESENTER
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Clark Reed, Director of Healthcare Facilities Division, ENERGY STAR, US Environmental Protection Agency
Clark Reed is Director of the Healthcare Facilities Division for ENERGY STAR, and is responsible for building and delivering key tools and resources to increase energy savings in healthcare facilities across the nation. He led EPA's effort to establish a national energy performance rating system for acute care hospitals, which is now used by over 50% of the market. Clark regularly publishes and speaks about energy best practices in the healthcare industry and serves on the steering committees for both the Green Guide for Health Care and the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Healthcare. He has nearly twenty years of environmental policy experience at the federal, state, and local levels of government. Clark received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Washington and a Masters in Environmental Policy from Tufts University. He writes regularly on energy issues for Inside ASHE magazine.
Description
Hospitals with strong energy management programs have senior-level support and management structures that empower staff to address energy conservation issues directly. Identify the critical elements needed to develop a strategy for achieving sustained performance. This session will enable you to:
* Create an energy management program for continuous improvement. * Increase the credibility of your energy program by developing a communications strategy to gain support of senior management.
Create a team approach to implement and sustain energy conservation.
Develop communication methods to gain the support of senior management towards energy conservation and infrastructure improvements.
List methods for internal and external benchmarking.