REST: Retrofitting Economic Support Tool - Smart Hospitals

The REST is designed to provide a straightforward and easy-to-interpret cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to support decision-making and evaluation of retrofitting projects under SMART standards for healthcare facilities. A healthcare facility is considered SMART when it has structural and operational designs that improves safety and makes the facility more energy efficient and green compliant. The SMART HOSPITALS initiative is broad and covers facility upgrades that make buildings and operations more safety resilient and environmental-friendly.

REST should be used to support decision making at the early stage of the retrofitting design process. Given the limitations of CEA and the preliminary information obtained, REST should not be the only tool used to make retrofitting decisions.