Click here to access all presentation slides: GHC Webinar – Ventilation Scheduling Sep 10 2025
Featured Speaker: Daniel Scott — Senior Manager, Facilities Management – Co-Generation Energy Plant, Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC), Northwell Health Reducing ventilation when spaces are unoccupied saves a lot of heating, cooling, humidification, and fan power. It is the biggest contributor to the impressive energy savings announced at our June Summer Workshop. It is highly cost-effective, fully code-compliant, and improves comfort and air quality. Our poll conducted earlier this year showed that less than half of hospitals are taking advantage of the ventilation setback, even in non-clinical spaces. Important aspects of scheduling include communication and collaboration with clinical teams:
- Getting clinical buy-in: What clinicians need to hear to be confident in safety and comfort
- What to present (and how): Explaining opportunities, codes, and safeguards in clear, relatable terms
- Documentation that builds trust: How to record occupancy, usage, departmental requirements, and signoffs
- From plan to practice: Aligning scheduling with actual workflows, escalation paths, and feedback loops
Join us for a step-by-step tutorial on planning and implementing a comprehensive and systematic HVAC scheduling program for your hospital, moderated by Amandeep Deol, Vice President of the Climate Challenge Network. Daniel Scott will share first-hand lessons from LIJMC and Northwell Health on building trust, aligning ventilation with clinical priorities, and documenting decisions.
Agenda: Introduction
- Ventilation scheduling: the single biggest step towards meeting energy, emissions and utility cost savings targets
- Seemingly simple, but it’s essential to address details which ensure safety, health and comfort
Meet the Hospital and Industry Panel
- Don’t reinvent the wheel or repeat others’ mistakes, learn from the experiences of your peers
- Our panel will help answer important questions about creating your comprehensive and systematic scheduling program
Scheduling Ventilation Systems Tutorial:
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- How much can I save? Using benchmarks and your GHC Annual Report to estimate your energy, emissions and utility cost savings.
- What does the code allow? A summary of CSA and ASHRAE rules for non-clinical and clinical areas.
- What are my highest potential non-clinical and clinical systems?
- How and when should clinicians be consulted?
- Documenting which systems serve what areas and departments.
- Establishing actual departmental use and occupancy and after-hours operations.
- Using the GHC checklist of important technical considerations – pressurization, airflow measurement and controls, air handling unit limitations, monitoring occupancy, space temperature and humidity, protecting medical equipment, safe storage of medications and sterile supplies.
- How can BAS and TAB contractors help? Verifying proper airflow balance, operations and savings, installing and calibrating sensors, programming, monitoring and alarms.