Towards HAS V2023 Certification
Arnaud Grzesiczak, Director of the Centre des maladies du foie et de l'appareil digestif du sud-ouest lyonnais (CMFAD), recently shared his experience of Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) V2023 certification at a meeting of the C2DS Quality Club.
His vision: " V2023 certification can be time-consuming, but with the right preparation and a systematic approach, it can offer many opportunities for improvement and energy savings. "
Explanations...
The first steps in preparing for certification
" You have to start at the beginning. I appointed a sustainable development manager and set up a small working group, representative of all the facility's functions. The group included the doctor in charge of sustainable development, a nurse and a secretary, and the director - myself. The second preliminary step was to check the SDG circuit prior to certification, with modifications if necessary, as it had not been reviewed for some ten years. "
Two months before the release of V2023, rapid action was also taken to eliminate plastic bottles, switch to recycled paper and recycle paper masks.
Priority focus: energy audits
The facility carried out a comprehensive energy audit, which involved collecting all electricity bills, supplier information, contract information and contract review. The results were used to create a multi-year energy curve, with focus points. " We went a step further in our audit by studying all consumption by major use. We recorded the cost in euros and broke it down into kW. With this study we were able to identify the most important points of consumption and where we could implement improvement actions. "
Energy-saving recommendations identified
" We started by insulating the building, adding walkways to create an airlock and insulate the building. Then, we improved the building: replaced the window frames, changed the skylights to make them insulated, installed a GTC with heat management, switched to geothermal energy to replace the gas boiler, insulated the hot water networks, controlled exterior lighting, replaced the last non-LED lights, installed solar panels, and even replaced the perishable food fridge which over-consumed by more than 40%. "
What is the result of all these actions?
The working group drew up an action plan with costs and a timetable, making it possible to visualize the improvements point by point, the savings made and the return on investment.
"It' s important to get support for these large-scale projects. The support we provide enables us to draw up a global report and action plan. But it's important to know that all the visiting experts are sensitive, not necessarily to big actions, but also to small individual ones. Because these small actions can generate big gains over the year, and very rapid returns on investment. Light detectors installed by an electrician, for example, have a return on investment of 8 months. "
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