Innovative solutions to optimise energy and resource efficiency within hospitals

The Innovation Exchange programme is working alongside Hull University Teaching Hospitals in looking at technologies to fulfil their ambitions of going net zero carbon by 2030 This ambition would also look to make the hospital sites as energy independent as possible so as to safeguard the patients health and comfort and cause as least disruption as possible in the event that energy is not easily available in the national grid. The Board is looking for innovative partners to work alongside the sites in Hull in bringing about the net zero ambitions and fulfil their strategy of being energy secure. This is a very broad challenge to find additional ideas to improve efficiencies and reduce resource losses such as heat, electricity, waste etc.

Opportunity

Challenge opens

23/05/2023

Challenge closes

30/06/2023

Benefit

Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their technologies to Hull University Teaching Hospitals, and there are potential business opportunities for the future for innovations that bring about the right return on net zero and financial benefits.

Background

Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) are situated in the geographical area of Kingston upon Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, they employ 9,600 WTE staff, have an annual turnover of £726 million (2020/21) and operate from two main sites - Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital – whilst delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the local health economy area. There are 4 main sites owned and operated by HUTH with varied constructive, size and use which include several large multi storey hospital buildings and also smaller buildings across the sites. The smallest being the mobile centres that have been installed to increase capacity quickly. 

The NHS has a target to achieve 80% reduction in emissions by 2032. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is making an ambitious commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030 in their Zero30 plan.

The Trust aim to decarbonise the estate and infrastructure by 50% by 2028 and have asked Innovate UK KTN to work with them to help them identify potential innovative solutions to be able to deliver and deploy solutions to help them meet their targets. With the future of the estates, the Trust is working to reduce the energy demand of its buildings while considering power generation and efficient use of energy, the desire is to make the hospitals as independent as possible in the future to have a robust health service that is secure and safe.

Both sites have a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units of 1.5MW, in addition Castlehill Hospital also has 5MW of solar PV.

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