Construction of Healthcare Facilities Using Energy Efficient Technologies

Abstract

Introduction. According to the Low-Carbon Development Strategy of the Russian Federation 2050, the special attention is allocated to cities, to evaluation of the quality and comfort of population life-activity, taking into account the implementation of energy-saving measures and other technological solutions, as well as to design and construction ensuring zero carbon dioxide emissions. The quality of people’s life is characterized by the availability of social infrastructure and adjacent spaces including: educational and healthcare institutions, as well as sports, recreation and cultural facilities. Planning the optimal development of healthcare institutions network with respect to the energy efficient measures, requires the integral system of urban territory evaluation, which is the main aim of the present study.Materials and methods. A complex task requires a multifaceted approach to systematizing the information about the state of urban territory in the following spheres: energy efficiency, green technologies, healthcare facilities network and its condition, development and character of the urban territory, environmental stability etc. In the context of low-carbon development the optimization of the healthcare network provided the use of energy-saving technologies becomes possible thanks to the use of the geographic information system.Results. As a result of the study held with application of the systemic approach to the phased planning of the healthcare institutions network optimization and using the geographic information system as a tool for territorial and spatial analysis, there were identified the main districts that require expansion and development of social infrastructure, namely healthcare institutions, and the urban territory features — infrastructure indicators (transport) and comfort of living indicators (urban greening evaluation). The basic opportunities and ways to improve energy efficiency of healthcare buildings were determined.Discussion and Conclusions. The long-term development of the healthcare institutions network in the city is fulfilled by means of the phased planning method implicating the differentiated normative-target approach, multi-criteria evaluation, which allows to organise sufficient medical care under conditions of the specific residing system. The implementation of the information modeling technologies, green and energy saving technologies will ensure improvement of the comfort of staying level, reduce energy consumption and ease the load on the municipal infrastructure of the city.