The Environment

Key environmental considerations for the Campus

The Watford Health Campus addresses environmental sustainability issues as wide-ranging as recycling to climate change, in its thinking towards plans for energy efficient buildings and an environmentally friendly Campus site.

But this thinking also stretches to the physical environment which users of the Campus site will inhabit, utilise and enjoy, including outdoor space that will also encourage wildlife and enhance the appearance of what is currently a run-down brownfield area in desperate need of regeneration. Environmental considerations for the Campus include:

• The enhancement of the local environment
• An increase in public open space
• New green spaces, that will promote outdoor activities and help wildlife
• Riverside development, enhancing a neglected area of the river Colne
• Tri-Gen power plant that will produce and recycle electrical and heat energy for the wider Campus
• Flood plain measures
• Low carbon / low energy developments and measures
• Working with local environmental partners and friends to promote all of the above

Just one example of this is that the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has employed spcialist low energy design guru's from the University of Cambridge to guide and influence the new hospital designs. It is therefore expected that the new hospital will be one of the lowest energy consuming of this type of facility in the UK.

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