Dynamic carbon footprinting

Carbon‐constrained health care enterprise

“…Such measures can be applied to heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, chillers, building envelope, lighting systems, water service systems, etc. Transport and access systems 4) water conservation projects, which capture and use storm water run-off; (5) maintaining the water quality in heating, ventilation and air conditioning towers to allow reduction in the number of cycles that boilers operate; (6) energy audits and retrocommissioning (ensuring that existing equipment is optimized for maximum efficiency); (7) heat recovery on exhaust systems; (8) maximizing natural light and use of energy efficient and motion sensor lighting; (9) low-flow plumbing fixtures; (10) right-sizing the building's chiller systems; (11) increased employee awareness;…”

“…The build up of the low-carbon loops around the enterprise as shown in Fig. 6 (as well as more sophisticated recursive loops or loops within loops) is expected to form important structures within the low-carbon economy [8]. As well as focusing on the internal and vertical components, the health care enterprise should also be engaging with its suppliers, such as pharmaceuticals, equipment and food providers, to encourage them to engage in carbon reduction programmes so that procurement can be used to select inputs to the health care enterprise using embodied GHGs and other life cycle aspects as supplementary parameters in the procurement decision making.…”

“…That will stimulate enterprises not only to look for opportunities to reduce waste and save money but also to think harder about their impact on the environment and the way that resources are protected. Moving into carbon‐constrained environments, the successful enterprises will be those who design their goods, services, processes, operations, supply chains and strategies in line with the new sources of value add [8,9].…”

“…The new dynamics are forcing enterprises to respond in tune with each other as high levels of carbon reduction and synchronicity are established across enterprise webs. The result is a highly connected enterprise environment with new rules and new dynamics [8,9].…”

“…Overall, the enterprise comes under pressure to realign itself in the carbon‐reducing economy with reduced levels of GHGs, and this in turn is transmitted to a requirement on the supply chain to deliver goods and services into the health care enterprise with reduced levels of embodied GHGs. These enterprise‐aligning [8,9] GHG vectors are shown in Fig. 5 as the horizontal vectors acting through the enterprise.…”