Healthcare Energy: State University of New York Upstate Medical University East Wing

The Building Technologies Office conducted a healthcare energy end-use monitoring project in partnership with two hospitals. This page contains highlights from monitoring at the East Wing, a hospital building addition at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. In the figure below, click on items in the legend to focus on specific end uses.

Photo of an aerial view of the SUNY children's hospital

City:  Syracuse, NY
Year Built: 1995
Total Floor Space: 143,000 ft2

The East Wing includes: the emergency medicine department; a diagnostic imaging center with three computed tomography (CT) units and two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units; the endoscopy department; 58 single-patient intensive care rooms, including 14 infectious isolation rooms and two protective environment rooms; and a pharmacy with pharmacy prep laboratories.

In addition to monitoring energy for major end-use categories, monitoring at this site included device-level metering for the CT and MRI equipment.

Read the full report, Healthcare Energy End-Use Monitoring, for more information.