Sustainable hospitals

We often mistake system-problems for people-problems. We assume people are lazy or difficult, when they are exhausted or uninformed. Consider what information they need, what motivates them, and what in their environment is working for or against them.

Designing a healing place now means understanding how a building affects its people and its environment. How did we partner with Perkins+Will to achieve optimal healing AND building performance?

In Ontario, California, a groundbreaking project has transformed the healthcare industry. The Kaiser Ontario Microgrid involved the deployment of a 9MWh battery, a 1MW fuel cell, and a 1.8MW solar PV system to provide normal power and supplement emergency power for the Kaiser Ontario Campus.

Kaiser Permanente (KP), the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system and first to achieve carbon neutrality (in 2020). Towards this, KP has been exploring the use of renewable microgrids, a groundbreaking step towards providing cleaner energy generation and reducing consumption

Packard Children's is the 1st West Coast LEED Platinum Children's hospital; it is targeted to be the most sustainable, technologically advanced children's hospital in the country.

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has selected San Francisco-based, healthcare specialists Mazzetti and global consulting and engineering firm Arup as the lead MEP engineers of record for its new hospital, UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights (Parnassus Heights).  Collaborating with architect partners HDR (Architect of Record) and Herzog & de Meuron (Lead Designer) to design the “hospital for the future”, Mazzetti and Arup will integrate forward-looking, innovative design, supporting UCSF’s commitment to world-renowned clinical research and training.

University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has begun construction on the UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital at Parnassus Heights. As part of the design team, Mazzetti is providing a suite of services including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering, energy modeling, lighting design, and sustainability consulting.