Texas facility's world-first 'green' milestone

Healthcare facilities use nearly twice as much energy per square foot as office buildings, according to American HVAC and air handling equipment manufacturer Temtrol (citing statistics from the country's Green Building Council). As Bruce Anderson, vice-president, Marketing, CES Group LLC (of which Temtrol is a Group company), explains, when America's Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, a paediatric facility built to field-leading environmental performance standards, expanded recently, the hospital's project team selected Temtrol's FANWALL technology for the air handlers used for a new MRI surgical unit "to provide energy-efficient, critical ventilation".