Green Globes for Healthcare

Making Healthcare facilities more

Sustainable, Healthy, & Resilient

Healthcare facilities have unique sustainability needs. To prioritize patient health, safety, and comfort, GBI offers a tailored certification system to enhance sustainability, wellness, and resilience across buildings and campuses.

Program Benefits

1 Rigorous, not rigid approach to certification

2 Multiple pathway options to ensure alignment with unique needs of healthcare facilities

3 Encourages a healing environment with IEQ, ventilation systems, acoustic design, daylighting, and biophilia criteria

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“Green Globes certification was a great fit for the organization’s goals… Our assessor truly understood the complexities involved in healthcare projects. With our Four Green Globes rating, UF Health can clearly demonstrate that these hospitals have the best interests of the environment, community and patients in mind.”

– John Chyz, Lead Sustainability Consultant, AEI | Affiliated Engineers

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University of Florida Health Hospitals Rely on Green Globes® to Realize Their Full Potential

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Prioritize your patients health, safety, and comfort

The connection between a building’s design and patient health is profound. Elements like enhanced indoor air quality (IAQ), daylighting, and acoustic comfort play a crucial role in creating healing environments. Green Globes encourages healthcare facilities to implement strategies that enhance the overall Indoor Environment, supporting stress reduction, improved recovery times and a healthier, more comfortable experience for patients, visitors, healthcare professionals and operators. Healthier buildings lead to healthier outcomes.

Green Globes certification encourages

Efficient Operations, Lower Operational Costs

In addition to improving patient health, sustainable building practices also improve operational efficiencies. By integrating optimized energy, water, and building envelope systems, healthcare facilities can significantly reduce their operational costs. Green Globes supports the adoption of energy efficient lighting, HVAC, low-flow fixtures, and smart irrigation practices minimize maintenance costs and reduce environmental impact without compromising patient care. Green Globes provides multiple pathways for energy consumption, water performance, and materials selections, among others, allowing facilities to meet their sustainability objectives while prioritizing functionality.

A Comprehensive Approach to Sustainability Certification in Healthcare

Green Globes offers a flexible and collaborative certification system that adapts to the unique requirements of healthcare facilities. It evaluates individual buildings, campuses, and entire portfolios providing transparency and adaptability. With Green Globes, healthcare facilities gain access to comprehensive assessments that include:

• A Tailored Certification Process: With a user-friendly online questionnaire that facilitates an integrated team approach, Green Globes is transparent with no “one-size-fits-all” approach, ensuring that every healthcare facility can participate
• Dedicated Third-Party Assessors (GGAs): Green Globes assigns experienced assessors who understand the complexities of healthcare facilities, providing personalized recommendations.
• Onsite Assessments: Final Assessment which can be conducted in-person by a dedicated GGA cuts down on documentation needs allowing for a more seamless certification process.
• Pathway Options: Multiple pathways for energy, water, and materials performance criteria to ensure that facilities meet their goals without rigid restrictions.

With over 56 million square feet of healthcare facilities certified or in progress, Green Globes is a trusted certification system for the healthcare industry. Green Globes certified buildings demonstrate a commitment to environmental stewardship, community impact, and patient-centered care. Investing in sustainable building practices supports resilience, encourages compliance with FGI Guidelines, and reduces operational costs.

The future of healthcare demands a focus on both environment and health. Green Globes helps you achieve this balance, creating sustainable, healthy, and resilient spaces.