Green Hospital
Environmental Impact Assessment, Resource Efficiency, and Hands-on Applications
At a glance
- Project leader : Regula Keller, Matthias Stucki
- Project team : Dominika Dragon, Manuela Merki, Karen Muir, Andrea Raida, Florian Roth, Sebastian Wibbeling
- Project budget : CHF 599'800
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : SNSF (NFP 73 «Nachhaltige Wirtschaft» / Projekt Nr. 172453)
- Project partner : Institut für Wirtschaftsstudien Basel AG, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik
- Contact person : Regula Keller
Description
Which processes in a hospital are particularly resource-intensive? How can cost-efficiency in hospitals be increased and environmental impact be reduced? How can life cycle innovation be applied in the health care sector in order to increase its sustainability?
The Life Cycle Assessment Research Group of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) will analyse hospital processes from an environmental perspective, while the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) will be responsible for process optimisation. Together with partner hospitals, concrete proposals for implementation will be developed and tested. Based on data collected in the project, the Institute for Economic Studies Basel (IWSB) will analyse the efficiency of hospitals from a cost and environmental perspective.
The specific goals of the project “Green Hospital” are:
(1) to develop consistent and comprehensive knowledge concerning
resource consumption end efficiency in Swiss hospitals
(2) to analyse determinants of life cycle environmental impacts in
the health sector and hospitals
(3) to compile a list of environmental best practices and
investigate the currently realisable options
(4) to test hands-on applications for environmentally optimised
processes
Further information
Publications
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Stucki, Matthias; Keller, Regula,
2023.
Betriebliche Ökobilanzierung als Nachhaltigkeitsinstrument für Krankenhäuser
.
In:
Leveringhaus, Jens; Wibbeling, Sebastian, eds.,
Green Health : Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften im Gesundheitswesen.
Berlin:
Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft.
pp. 60-68.
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Keller, Regula; Abplanalp, Jan-Reto; Zimmerli, Nik; Bradford, Sebastian; Stucki, Matthias; Moll, Beate; Raida, Andrea,
2023.
Massnahmen für ein umweltfreundliches und effizientes Spital : best practices.
Wädenswil:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28257
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Roth, Florian; Merki, Manuela; Keller, Regula,
2021.
Environmental efficiency analysis of Swiss acute care hospitals.
SSRN.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3939627
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Rippstein, Julia; Stucki, Matthias,
2021.
Schweizerische Ärztezeitung.
102(45), pp. 1490-1492.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.4414/saez.2021.20078
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Stucki, Matthias; Jattke, Marleen; Berr, Marcus; Desing, Harald; Green, Ashley; Hellweg, Stefanie; Laurenti, Rafael; Meglin, Ronny; Muir, Karen; Pedolin, Dario; Shinde, Rhythima; Welz, Tobias; Keller, Regula,
2021.
How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy.
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.
26, pp. 1062-1069.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-021-01894-1
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Keller, Regula; Muir, Karen; Roth, Florian; Jattke, Marleen; Stucki, Matthias,
2021.
From bandages to buildings : identifying the environmental hotspots of hospitals.
Journal of Cleaner Production.
319(128479).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128479
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Keller, Regula; Stucki, Matthias; Muir, Karen,
2019.
The environmental impact of hospitals.
In:
9th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Poznan, Poland, 1-4 September 2019.
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Stucki, Matthias; Meyer, Stefan,
2019.
Gemeinsam auf dem Weg in Richtung «Grünes Spital».
Competence.
2019(4), pp. 24-25.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3278
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Muir, Karen; Stucki, Matthias; Keller, Regula,
2018.
Green hospital : bringing life cycle innovation into the healthcare sector.
In:
1st Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC), Berlin, 29-31 August 2018.
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Muir, Karen; Stucki, Matthias; Keller, Regula,
2018.
Resource efficiency and life cycle innovation in the healthcare sector.
In:
1st Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC), Berlin, 29-31 August 2018.