Hospitals spend more on air filtration energy costs than most facility managers realize.
Learn how to cut those costs without putting patients at risk.
Clean improves patient outcomes. In hospitals, air quality affects recovery times, infection rates, operating room safety, and staff health. Air quality experts from global air filter manufacturer Camfil have put together an educational guide for facilities managers who want to improve hospital air quality while also cutting energy costs.
A recent blog published by Camfil, “Life Cycle Cost & Sustainability of Air Filtration in Hospitals: Reducing Environmental Impact While Protecting People,” breaks down the real cost of hospital air filtration. The sticker price on a filter tells you almost nothing. Energy use, maintenance labor, waste disposal, and the strain on your HVAC system over months and years are where the real money goes. When facility managers look at the full lifecycle cost, better filtration choices follow, ones where patients are protected today, and the building’s environmental footprint shrinks over time.
“In large healthcare campuses with multiple buildings, surgical suites, isolation rooms, and diagnostic areas, the cumulative energy impact of air filtration adds up fast,” said Cade Blackwell, Healthcare Manager at Camfil. “A small increase in pressure drop at the filter level turns into thousands of dollars in added fan energy across a year. Filtration decisions directly affect a hospital’s sustainability targets, both in energy consumption and carbon output.”
What the guide covers:
Lifecycle cost: The true price of a filter goes beyond the purchase order. Energy draw, labor hours for change-outs, and disposal fees all factor in, and most facilities undercount them.
- Energy and emissions impact: Higher filter resistance forces HVAC fans to work harder. Over a 12-month cycle, the added energy consumption shows up in utility bills and in the building’s overall carbon footprint.
- Waste reduction: Filters with longer service lives mean fewer change-outs per year. Fewer change-outs mean less landfill waste and fewer truck rolls, which cuts indirect emissions.
- Sustainable filtration strategies: The goal is to hit the required filtration efficiency at the lowest possible operating energy. High-performance filters exist right now. Hospitals do not have to choose between clean air and lower energy bills.
The blog also covers Camfil’s lineup of high-efficiency HEPA and molecular filters built for healthcare settings. These filters handle critical spaces like operating rooms and isolation rooms while keeping pressure drop and energy draw as low as the application allows.
If you run a hospital, manage a healthcare facility, or oversee sustainability for a health system, the Camfil guide gives you specific, practical direction on filtration decisions where your operating budget and your environmental goals stop competing with each other and start working together.
About Camfil
The Camfil Group is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and has 29 manufacturing sites, six R&D centers, local sales offices in 35+ countries, and 5,700 employees and growing. We proudly serve and support customers in a wide variety of industries and communities across the world. To discover how Camfil USA can help you protect people, processes, and the environment, visit us at www.camfil.us.
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