title: Smart specification for sustainability.
abstract: This article details a study reviewing the potential for 'smart specification' of air filtration for air-handling units (AHUs) to offer NHS Trusts sustainability savings, including 'hard cost' reductions. The study, involving three separate NHS Trusts--Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust--proves that sustainability savings can be realised without significant financial investment. The key investment is manpower, and the study suggests that the use of a third-party supplier would offer the Trusts involved net productivity gains.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Howarth
mesh_terms: D000388:Air; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003246:Conservation of Energy Resources; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004739:England; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital