Green hospital criteria Assessing the Rahnemoon hospital sustainability factors

This paper is about a technical study of hospital buildings and assessing its conditions according to sustainable development elements. First of all the relation and interdependency between health and sustainability is investigated. Then the role of hospitals on sustainability and its negative environmental impacts will express. According to these problems and considering the organization’s endeavor for solutions, the International rating systems for hospital buildings will introduce and among them LEED (The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system will be analyzed in more details.At the end Rahnemoon hospital as a health care building in IRAN will be evaluated according to LEED rating system. Concerning and obtaining the rating system certification is not a usual activity for hospitals in IRAN. As a conclusion this paper will demonstrate that if sustainability is an important factor in designing and construction of hospitals in IRAN or not.