Green Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities

Learning Objectives:

• Best practices toward high perfomance healing environments
• Sustainable operations protocols
• Regulatory requirements
• The future of Green Guidelines in healthcare
• Documentation
• How Green Guidelines apply to freestanding facilities, additions to existing facilities coupled with renovation, and extensive rehabilitation/adaptive reuse projects

Presenters:

Kim Shinn, P.E.
LEED AP, Director,
TLC Engineers

Kim Shinn is a registered professional mechanical engineer in nine states and a Principal in TLC Engineers' Nashville division, as well as TLC's Director of Sustainable Design, and Vice Chairman and co-founder of the local Middle Tennessee Chapter of the US Green Building Council (USGBC). He has been a USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional since May 2001. LEED is the USGBC's internationally recognized green building rating system that recognizes and awards excellence in high performance buildings. Kim is a 1978 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University with degrees in engineering physics and mechanical engineering. Kim served as the LEED consultant on Florida's first LEED certified building, Stetson University's Lynn Business Center. He is currently serving as the LEED consultant or commissioning authority on LEED registered projects such as the US courthouses in Mobile, AL and Ft Pierce, FL; the University of Florida Harn Sculpture Museum; the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Baker Center for Public Policy; and the Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network Cedar Crest North Tower Expansion and Medical Office Building in Allentown, PA.

Kim has given presentations on green design, including daylighting, commissioning, construction practices, concrete use, innovative energy systems, envelope and fenestration selection, and USGBC's LEED green building rating system. Kim has given these presentations to professional groups in Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Kim has been active in the American Society of Healthcare Engineering's and USGBC's initiatives to draw up guidance documents for green healthcare design and construction. When not trying to green healthcare construction practice, Kim spends his time as an oenophile and competing in endurance athletic events as a Clydesdale Master (fancy way of saying Fat Old Guy).

Robin Guenther
Principal,
Guenther 5 Architects

Robin Guenther is the principal of Guenther 5 Architects, a 20-person New York City firm with extensive experience in the design and planning of health care facilities. Her projects have received national design awards and been widely published, and Ms. Guenther is increasingly active as an advocate and speaker, linking issues of healing design, public health and decreasing global resources.

Ms. Guenther serves on the New York City Advisory Committee on Sustainability and the 2006 AIA Guidelines for Healthcare Construction Revision Committee, specifically dealing with "green building" and "therapeutic environment" considerations. She served on the Steering Committee of the Green Guidelines for Healthcare Construction, a project of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, and is now on the LEED® for Healthcare Application Guide Core Committee. She co-chairs the Building Green Healthcare Workgroup, a joint project of Health Care Without Harm and the Healthy Building Network. She is also a member of the Environmental Standards Council of the Center for Health Design, an organization engaged in environmental design research initiatives aimed at improving the Environment of Care in health care settings.

Guenther 5 Architects is responsible for the design of the Patrick H. Dollard Discovery Health Center in Monticello, NY, which won the first annual ASHE Sustainable Design Award.

Clark Reed
National Healthcare Manager,
U.S. EPA - Energy Star

Clark Reed is the National Healthcare Manager for ENERGY STAR at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Mr. Reed helps EPA's 400 ENERGY STAR hospital partners improve their energy performance, reduce air emissions, and increase their competitive-ness through cost-effective energy efficiency upgrades. Over the past three years, he has worked to create EPA's national energy performance rating system for acute care hospitals and medical office buildings.

Since 2002, Mr. Reed has written a regular column on healthcare energy issues in the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) magazine, Inside ASHE, with a circulation of 12,000. Mr. Reed also worked with ASHE members on the Healthcare Energy Performance Project (HEP), a two-year study that identified best operating and maintenance practices and technologies used to achieve higher energy performance in healthcare buildings.

Mr. Reed has presented at several major industry conferences during his career sponsored by organizations including American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), San Diego Gas and Electric, Premier, and AmeriNet Central. Most recently, Mr. Reed presented at ASHE Region 6 Annual Conference and the Texas Association of Healthcare Facility Managers.

Mr Reed has over 16 years in the public policy arena. Before joining the U.S. EPA in 1997, he was a natural resource planner for King County, Washington where he was instrumental in shaping the county's water quality and conservation plan. Mr. Reed has worked with the Department of Defense on the impacts of international environmental treaties on future military missions, manpower requirements, and budgets. He has also written recommendations for environmental and redevelopment plans for the Ohio Lake Erie shoreline.

Reed earned a master's degree in urban and environmental policy at Tufts University and a bachelor of arts degree in natural resource economics at the University of Washington.

Continuing Education:

This program meets the requirements for CHFM, CHSP, CIH & CSO Continuing Education Credits. Earn .25 CM Points for CIHs.