Role of green hospitals in sustainable construction: Benefits, rating systems and constraints

Sustainability is a major concern for everyone. Degradation of resources and increment in the pollution are posing a question mark on the sustainability. This situation is creating a pressure on the firms to be greener. Green hospital is a hospital that improves people's health by continuously reducing environmental impacts on sustainability and meets its share of the burden to disease. The study aimed to know the concept of “Green Hospital”. The site of reputable domestic and foreign institutional electronic databases was searched to identify the patterns of green hospital. Thus, the data for this study was collected from the multiple online sources. It is found that there are various rating systems for the green buildings i.e., Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA), Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE): Star Rating, ASSOCHAM GEM, ECBC Compliance etc. Overlap in terms of energy efficiency, water efficiency and waste management patterns were observed in all other aspects could be due to differences in location patterns and different organizations providing organizations needs to be mentioned. There are several constrains are also available for constructing the green hospitals.