Project Overview
Project Description
As a design and build nonprofit, Build Health International (BHI) is focused on delivering high-quality healthcare infrastructure that is sustainable for the environment and within the community. BHI’s diverse international team of architects, engineers, and construction managers are focused on delivering effective and efficient projects that enable hospital partners on the ground to provide critical care. The core team produces projects and works through a variety of tools and workstreams. While sustainability is at the core of what BHI do, including designing and installing renewable energy systems, part of BHI’s strategic growth is to more deeply embed climate resiliency, environmental metrics, and sustainability into the projects.
This project will be building on previous work done by the past E4C fellow around developing KPIs for the design process to measure the carbon footprint and BHI’s environmental impact. One of the objectives of this project will be to design an implementation plan for sustainable design across low-resource settings within BHI’s design and build internal structure and provide guidance on the adoption of tools within the current workflow. The fellow will actively work in and have exposure to a project(s) to serve as an example of working within the resource-constrained context and the partner’s parameters or goals. It is intended to deliver guidance or training to BHI team members, and potential partners, on the utilization of these KPIs and tools as well as receive feedback on how BHI can measure or improve its sustainable design practices.
Impact
It is anticipated that this project will further develop and enhance BHI’s efforts to ensure the approach to design and construction is environmentally sound. By developing workflows that open opportunities to implement KPIs and metrics into the process, the focus on sustainability will remain front and centre. This work ripples across several SDGs with the ultimate goal to deliver sustainable, climate-resilient healthcare infrastructure. However, the two primary goals that directly tie to this project are ‘Good Health and Wellbeing” and ‘Affordable and Clean Energy’ – both critical for ensuring access to dignified healthcare across low-resource settings.
