Low Carbon Europe Joins HEFMA

We’re pleased to announce that Low Carbon Europe (LCE) has joined the Health Estates and Facilities Management Association (HEFMA), strengthening our connections with estates and facilities professionals across the NHS.

The membership builds on LCE’s long-standing work in the healthcare sector, supporting NHS organisations with challenges around energy management, compliance, decarbonisation, and the ongoing optimisation of complex healthcare estates.

About HEFMA

For more than 25 years, HEFMA has represented estates and facilities management professionals working across NHS organisations in England. Its members manage the day-to-day operation of healthcare estates, from maintenance and engineering to the support services needed to keep hospitals running effectively.

Through its seven regional branches, HEFMA provides a network for professionals to share information, exchange best practice and learn from the experiences of other NHS organisations. The association also works with NHS England on matters affecting Estates and Facilities, including emerging standards, policy and performance programmes.

Why LCE has joined HEFMA

Healthcare estates present some of the UK's most complex energy and sustainability challenges.

Hospitals and other healthcare buildings must operate reliably while balancing patient and staff requirements, ageing infrastructure, compliance obligations, financial pressures, and ambitious carbon-reduction targets.

Becoming a HEFMA member allows us to engage more closely with the professionals managing these challenges every day. We hope to use the membership to listen, learn and contribute, sharing our own experience while gaining further insight into the changing priorities facing NHS Estates and Facilities teams.

Bringing our healthcare energy experience to the HEFMA community

LCE has worked with organisations across the country on projects ranging from individual energy-efficiency measures through to long-term energy and sustainability programmes.

Through our Retained Energy Management Service (REMS) and wider technical expertise, we help healthcare organisations identify and implement opportunities to reduce energy consumption, control costs and carbon emissions, maintain energy compliance and develop longer-term approaches to decarbonisation.

This experience gives our team first-hand insight into many of the issues estates teams face when balancing day-to-day operational requirements with longer-term energy and carbon objectives.

Looking ahead

LCE looks forward to taking an active role in the association, engaging with regional and national events, sharing knowledge, and building relationships with fellow members.

Most importantly, we hope our involvement will help us continue developing our understanding of the pressures facing NHS Estates and Facilities teams and contribute practical knowledge to support more efficient, sustainable, and resilient healthcare estates.

We look forward to meeting and working with fellow HEFMA members over the months and years ahead.