AdventHealth contracted with Hanson to provide support services for prioritizing energy projects at the Celebration Health (882,078 square feet), Altamonte (653,085 square feet), Winter Park Memorial (433,235 square feet) and East Orlando (478,053 square feet) campuses and to begin developing a comprehensive energy management plan, or energy roadmap.
During Phase 1 of the Energy Roadmap project, Hanson reviewed and prioritized energy conservation measures (ECMs) identified through five energy audits previously conducted across the four campuses by third-party consultants. Hanson analyzed the ECMs and assigned a priority ranking based on a “rack and stack” method, considering:
- reduction in site energy use intensity
- largest potential savings
- lowest implementation costs
- shortest payback period
- logical progression of project phasing
Hanson then organized the prioritized ECMs into funding cycles and performed a fiscal analysis showing the payback duration of each implementation cycle, the total energy cost savings projections, capital spending funded from recovered energy savings and revenue offset generated from the ECM projects over a seven-year period.
Phase II focused on developing a prioritization sequence of energy-efficiency measures identified in energy audits of four healthcare campuses, as well as anticipated quarterly implementation project cost estimates and associated energy cost savings through 2020. The roadmap also prioritized the sequence of additional energy audits through 2020 by performing a baseline preliminary energy assessment across the portfolio of 19 healthcare campuses. A renewable energy assessment was performed for the campuses to identify the opportunities for solar photovoltaic arrays, potential project cost estimates, incentive programs and return on investment scenarios. Guidelines and procedures for the implementation of internal revolving energy funds were included, as well as the recommended best practices for the roadmap implementation.
