Due to their complex nature, health care projects face multiple obstacles in achieving sustainability and reducing resource consumption. Improved quality and safety are usually accompanied by an increase in costs and consumption of natural resources, which may pose challenges to achieving sustainability objectives. This presentation explores the subject of sustainability in health care buildings by examining and analyzing national databases with new data consolidation and comparison techniques. This session will enable attendees to:

Describe major existing barriers to instituting green trends in health care and potential solutions to removing these barriers.
Explain the role of evidence-based design in accelerating the achievement of sustainable health care facilities.
Discuss what sustainable health care design looks like.