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Hospitals are interesting buildings: they are highly complex, as they comprise a wide range of services and functional units. The prevailing indoor conditions should ensure thermal comfort, air quality, and visual comfort, in order to have a healing effect on patients. At the same time, hygienic regulations are getting tighter and are of obvious importance. Meeting those requirements leads, not unreasonably, to the fact that the energy demand of hospitals is among the highest of non-residential buildings. This was accepted for many years as an unpleasant but inevitable “side effect,” but increased energy costs, cuts in public health budgets, the competition in the private health sector, and growing sustainability concerns have changed this approach. It is therefore interesting to discuss the way in which this complex problem has been addressed over the last few decades and, even more so, the way it is expected to be solved in the coming decades.
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Papadopoulos, A.M. (2016). Energy Efficiency in Hospitals: Historical Development, Trends and Perspectives. In: Boemi, SN., Irulegi, O., Santamouris, M. (eds) Energy Performance of Buildings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20831-2_11
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