Energy technology leader Schneider Electric has supported University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) in transforming its estate management capabilities through an updated connected energy and asset-management infrastructure
As one of the UK’s largest acute healthcare providers, UHS provides critical care and specialist services to 1.9 million people across Southampton and South Hampshire.
With much of its electrical and mechanical infrastructure dating back to the 1970s, UHS faced the challenges of managing a significant maintenance backlog, planning an anticipated estate expansion, and progressing towards the NHS’ Net Zero 2040 targets.
To address these issues, UHS worked in partnership with Schneider Electric to modernise its infrastructure, introducing a connected data-driven architecture based on Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure platform.
This included Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert and EcoStruxure Asset Advisor, alongside Planon Workplace Insights and connected medium-and low-voltage electrical distribution equipment.
Schneider Electric’s real-time asset intelligence drives maintenance savings
Together, the technologies give the estates and facilities team near real-time visibility of critical asset condition, enabling a shift from reactive to proactive, condition-based maintenance. Data insights are helping to improve backlog prioritisation, fault detection, and root-cause analysis, reducing maintenance periodicity.
The overhaul comes as UHS plans a 50,000 square metre extension of its estate to provide new clinical spaces and beds.
“We’re already seeing significant operational and efficiency gains as a result of our partnership with Schneider Electric,” says David Jones, Director of Estates, Facilities and Capital Development at UHS.
“Our work together has resulted in substantial cost savings and enabled us to divert resources back to where they matter the most: clinical services and the provision of excellent patient care. Digitalising and connecting our operations has been integral to modernising and planning for the future, ensuring that we have resilient power networks in place which are able to scale with demand.”
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