Spectra - Winter 2019

5 Did you know? The department’s administration team handles 150-200 Fault Line repairs every day The department handles around 5000 planned preventative maintenance jobs a month There are 450-500 bookings per month for fire lectures NHS Tayside is spread over about 50,000 acres Last year the energy used by NHS Tayside was responsible for 39,738 tonnes of CO2, enough to fill over 7,000 double-decker buses, but the good news is that’s a 30% reduction since 2011/12 Last year the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit in the Energy Centre at Ninewells generated nearly 26 million kWh of electricity for use in the hospital – enough to power 6,600 homes Thanks to the CHP unit, Ninewells Hospital was completely off grid for over 6,400 hours last year, over 73% of the time Following the installation of new equipment and upgrades to infrastructure, more than £2.7million of savings were made in the first year and our green house emissions were reduced by 12,700 tonnes More than 21,000 light fittings were replaced with more energy efficient fittings equaling over 40 million lumens, a measure of brightness, which is four times more than Blackpool illuminations In this process about 219 tonnes of scrap metal was recycled Between 1 April 2018 and 28 January 2019, 1841 utility invoices were processed by the Property Department with a combined value of £6,331,588