The Fraternidad-Muprespa Habana Hospital and its LEED certification project

The Fraternidad-Muprespa Habana Hospital project intended, from its beginnings, to build a unique building from an environmental point of view. To do this, we take as a reference the most demanding standard in the world in the construction of new buildings: LEED.

Both in the architectural project, as well as during the execution of the works and the provision of the equipment, the rules established by the LEED standard have been followed. This has translated into obtaining “credits” that enable – depending on the number achieved – to hold the LEED certification, granted by the US Green Building Council.

Specifically, the certification scheme that has been followed is the one that defines how hospitals should be designed and built, since let us remember that the LEED standard can be applied, with different construction requirements, to other types of buildings: shopping centers, schools, stores, housing developments and even computer centers for data processing.

Spain is a country with a strong presence of buildings with LEED certification, and some of the mutual companies of Fraternidad-Muprespa have already adopted this standard for the construction of their buildings: Repsol, Inditex, Telefónica, etc.

The decision to design and build a hospital under the LEED standard, complying with the demanding rules and guides that this entails, has an immediate effect on the comfort of patients and their families, since LEED is not limited by any means to savings parameters (energy, water, waste), but gives crucial importance to the comfort and environmental quality that the building's occupants will feel, whether they are patients and family members or healthcare professionals.