Selling healthcare energy management to executives

Healthcare Facilities Management article offers best practices for facility managers to get investment proposals approved

By Healthcare Facilities Today


Healthcare facility managers know that investments in better air-handling systems, improved meter and monitoring systems, lighting modifications and a variety of other measures can save energy and money.  

Top management executives decide to invest in these improvements because someone has made a persuasive business case, according to an article on the Healthcare Facilities Management website.

According to the article, some best practices include:

• Creating a concise, well-constructed proposal that focuses on the plan’s return on investment rather than its technological attributes

 Explaining that the investment will reduce owner risk

 Demonstrating how an upgraded energy management system enhances the healing environment and the comfort of patients and staff

Read the article.

 

 



March 18, 2014


Topic Area: Energy and Power


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