Our MEES consultancy support is designed for healthcare property owners, landlords, investors, asset managers and estates teams responsible for operational healthcare buildings.

This may include:

• GP surgeries and doctors’ surgeries
• Primary care estates
• NHS-linked property and public healthcare buildings
• Medical centres and community healthcare facilities
• Care homes and assisted living environments
• Specialist clinics and outpatient facilities
• Pharmacies and chemists
• Healthcare investment portfolios

Whether you manage a single healthcare building or a wider property portfolio, the priority is to understand compliance risk early and plan practical improvements in a way that protects operational continuity.

Healthcare buildings can face particular challenges when it comes to EPC ratings and MEES compliance.

Common risks include:

• Older building fabric
• Complex heating, cooling and ventilation systems
• Long operating hours
• High energy demand
• Limited opportunities for disruptive works
• Mixed-use spaces within the same building
• Changes in occupancy or clinical use over time
• Historic improvement work that may not have considered whole-building performance

Understanding these risks early helps estates teams make better decisions about compliance planning, investment priorities and phased improvement works.

Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) continue to create significant challenges for healthcare property owners, investors and estates teams. Many healthcare buildings were not originally designed to meet modern energy performance expectations, yet they must remain operational while improvements are delivered.

Murton & Co helps healthcare clients navigate this increasingly complex compliance landscape through practical, risk-aware consultancy tailored to operational buildings. This forms part of our wider building performance and energy consultancy support for healthcare estates.

If you are unsure whether a healthcare property or wider estate may be exposed to EPC or MEES compliance risk, our Commercial EPC & MEES Readiness Check gives you a simple starting point.

It can help identify whether your current position needs closer review before a lease event, investment decision, improvement plan or compliance deadline.

Complete the Commercial EPC & MEES Readiness Check.

• Portfolio risk assessments
• EPC improvement strategies
• Compliance planning
• Phased upgrade programmes
• Asset improvement roadmaps
• Advice on cost-effective improvement measures
• Support for long-term estate resilience

Importantly, we understand that healthcare buildings cannot be treated like standard commercial assets. Poorly considered retrofit measures can introduce unintended consequences including overheating, moisture risk, ventilation imbalance and operational disruption.

This is why our approach aligns with the principles of PAS 2038, the recognised framework for the retrofit of commercial buildings. PAS 2038 promotes a whole-building, risk-managed approach to retrofit, ensuring that energy improvements are considered in the context of building fabric, occupancy, ventilation, operational use and long-term performance.

For healthcare estates, this whole-building approach is especially important because improvement measures can affect ventilation, comfort, moisture movement, patient environments and the ability of the building to remain operational.

By considering these factors early, Murton & Co can help healthcare property teams avoid isolated upgrades that improve one part of the building while creating problems elsewhere.

Our approach is practical, evidence-led and risk-aware.

We can help healthcare clients:

1. Review current EPC ratings and compliance exposure
2. Identify assets most at risk from current or future standards
3. Assess realistic improvement options
4. Prioritise works based on risk, cost, disruption and long-term value
5. Develop phased improvement plans across individual buildings or portfolios
6. Support decision-making with clear, evidence-based recommendations

This helps healthcare property teams move from uncertainty to a clear, manageable compliance plan.

• Energy efficiency
• Building performance
• Occupant wellbeing
• Compliance obligations
• Operational continuity
• Long-term asset protection
• Financial viability

Our experience in commercial property and building performance consultancy enables us to provide measured, practical advice that reduces risk while supporting healthcare sustainability objectives.

We can review your current position and help prioritise practical improvements around operational requirements.

For a wider overview of our healthcare sector expertise, visit our healthcare energy consultancy page.

For planned improvement works, see our healthcare retrofit and building performance consultancy.

For wider EPC support, visit our EPC services page.