Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust
Fund Size: £100,000
Results: Annual carbon savings of 251 tonnes of CO2 and financial savings of £25,000 a year.

INTRODUCTION
Frimley Park was opened in 1974 to provide a full range of district general hospital services for North East Hampshire and West Surrey. It is now a large 700 bed trust with a gross internal area of 60,667m2, approximately 300 staff and an annual turnover of £100 million: providing services to a catchment population of 365,000.

The Trust is committed to energy efficiency through its adherence to an Environmental Management System (EMS). The EMS is complemented by the establishment of an energy group, led by the General Manager of Facilities, to focus on energy use and conservation.  Frimley Park has a target to reduce its CO2 emissions by 15% by 2010, using a 2001/2 baseline.

JOINING THE SCHEME
With an approximate utility bill of £1.08 million pa and a carbon foot print of 7,162 tonnes of CO2 the Trust was keen to benefit from the Salix scheme and joined in March 2007.  The Hospital is committed to reducing the impact of its business activities on climate change.

The Salix Scheme offers the establishment of a self regenerating ring fenced fund for energy saving projects which adds considerably to the resources available to the Trust Energy Group in the pursuit of emission reductions.

The Energy Group comprises of representatives from the following areas: Facilities, Estates, Capital Projects and Environment.  Three full time members from this Group cover all aspects of energy management across the Trust from utility purchasing, monitoring and targeting, through to end use analysis of all departments’ energy use.

SCHEME OUTLINE AND PERFORMANCE
With Salix funding of £50K, Frimley Park has a total fund value of £100K to be spent over a two and half year period. In the first six months of the scheme they have undertaken four of the six projects identified for investment with the remaining two to be rolled out by the end of the financial year.  This £100K investment is estimated to produce annual energy savings of £25K in energy costs.

 

No of projects

Project value £K

Annual Energy savings £K

Annual CO2 savings

Lifetime CO2 savings

Frimley Park

6

£100 k

£25 k

251 t

1,652 t

With a dedicated and focused team in place Frimley Park have not only met their milestones with Salix but have accelerated rapidly, claiming their entire grant in July 2006, 18 months ahead of schedule.

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
The Team has focused the funding in the following areas:

  • Boiler replacement : Ageing boilers situated in the Doctors’ Mess and Cystic Fibrosis department have been replaced with high efficiency/low energy condensing boilers (see attached case study)
  • Replacing pumps in remaining Plant Rooms with combined pumps and inverters
  • Variable speed drives: inverters are being installed to Air Handling Units
  • Following a review of lighting within the hospital residences, low-energy bulbs have been installed to replace tungsten bulbs and lighting controls were installed in some of the shared kitchen areas
  • Reflective panels have been installed on external walls behind radiators in the main building to improve heating efficiency and which will be rolled out to any new building or refurbishment
  • Replacing Mercury Based Floodlights (MBF) in street lighting bollards, with low energy PLET / Compact Fluorescent Lamps.

FRIMLEY PARK'S VIEW OF THE SCHEME
Since joining the scheme in March, Frimley Park sees the following benefits:

  • Focus their attention on all the issues around energy expenditure and monitoring
  • Improvement in energy monitoring systems, as part of the Salix funding commitment, have been invaluable in helping the Trust to identify future projects
  • A source of dedicated (ring-fenced) funding for energy improvement
  • Expedited the planned improvement programme.

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