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Abstract Healthcare facilities are energy and resource-intensive enterprise. This sector is a major consumer of resources, as they open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, also function as offices, laboratories, commercial laundries, lodging establishments, food service providers, and in many cases they are used as energy generators and waste treatment enterprises. Each of those activities make them a design complicated building type, which requires an efficient integrated environmental management system afterwards. Therefore, the research contributes to setting a new foundation for integrated hospital management throughout two perspectives: technical and environmental, this is for enhancing the operations for the existing hospital efficiently, given that, the budget which is allocated for operation, development and maintenance is very limited, so this program takes into account in its outputs; technically and environmentally accepted solutions; and such solutions are being implemented at the lowest possible cost and do not cause hinder or disruption of operations. |