First Draft of Green Guidelines for Healthcare Construction

The first draft of “Green Guidelines for Healthcare Construction: Creating High Performance Healing Environments” is now available for public comment. Developed by a team led by the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems of Austin, Texas, sponsored by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), and funded by the Merck Family Fund, the guidelines “provide the healthcare sector with a self-certifying metric tool that designers, owners, and operators can use to evaluate their progress towards high performance healing environments.” Draft guidelines are available at www.gghc.org; comments will be accepted through the end of January 2004.