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A Study on Environment-friendliness in the Chungnam Regional Public Hospitals - Focused on the Sustainable Site and Transportation

  • JOURNAL OF THE KOREA INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE
  • Abbr : KIHA
  • 2014, 20(2), pp.37-45
  • Publisher : Korea Institute Of Healthcare Architecture
  • Research Area : Engineering > Architectural Engineering
  • Published : May 31, 2014

Yeonghwan Lim 1

1홍익대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Purpose: Numerous researches about healthcare buildings have been performed however, they weremainly focused on convenience or healing condition for medical treatments. The hospitals consumeenergy and generate CO2 as twice as the residential or commercial buildings do(Lim, et al.,2010a:154). The public regional hospitals are especially in serious conditions. They are more than20 years old in average. Energy efficiency and environmental friendliness in the public regionalhospitals are far behind ones in private sectors. Even though the ministry of health & welfare issupporting renovation of the builidngs and enhancement of the facilities every year, it is notintegrated including sustainibility. In this study, we investigates current conditions of the regionalpublic hospital in envrionment-friendly standpoint, especially focused on Chungcheong Provincearea Hospitals. Methods: we investigates current conditions of the regional public hospital inenvrionment-friendly standpoint, especially focused on Chungcheong Province area Hospitals. Thestudy was executed by qualitative and quantitative evaluations with site inspection, drawing analysisand interviews. Results: Through this study, we found that the Chungnam regional public hospitalscan be environmentally improved by management plans and programs. Implications: Based on thisanalysis, Korean Green Building Certification for healthcare facilities will be developed in near future.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.