IFHE 2020 ROME CONGRESS
Global pandemic’s impact in focus at ‘virtual’ IFHE event
This month will see the Italian Society for Healthcare Architecture and Engineering (SIAIS – Società Italiana e dell’Ingegneria per la Sanità ) host the 26th International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE) Congress – IFHE 2020, themed ‘Global Climate Action Energy Requirements – The approach, the work organisation, and the future of hospital engineering towards a new healthcare vision'. The Congress was originally scheduled to be held in Rome last May, but, due to the impact of COVID-19, the international event, marking the IFHE’s 50th year, will be held online, with four days of topical conference presentations from the international healthcare estates and healthcare engineering community, and the associated design and construction supply chain. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
As HEJ readers will have seen in the February 2020 issue, the 26th IFHE Congress was due to be held in Rome from 27-28 May last year. However, given the impact of COVID-19 globally – not least within Italy, which was one of the European countries worst hit by the pandemic – the event organising committee decided there was no option but to postpone it until this month. Although it had been planned to hold a physical Congress at this time, later in 2020 it became clear that with the coronavirus outbreak still very much ongoing, this would now be impractical; hence this month’s IFHE Italy 2020 event is being held virtually, from 24-28 of January. The ‘online’ Congress is being organised jointly by Italy’s SIAIS and event organising company, Events Commuicazione.
Entitled ‘Global climate action in pandemic times’, it will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering, which was in fact founded in the Italian capital in 1970. The SIAIS said: “The Congress will provide a unique opportunity to present and compare our experiences as experts in national healthcare systems, having a common framework for discussion in the most current and important issue of our times – ‘Global climate action in pandemic times’. Our experiences, lessons learned, and
designers, estates and facilities managers, contractors, and suppliers.
The conference forms the centrepiece of the event, and will cover the following seven key themes:
exchanges, will underpin the significance of our technical know-how in tackling this global issue. With the active involvement of all participants, our congress will offer a platform for launching ideas and projects to enable a collective and coordinated approach to tackle the crisis. This represents an important commitment involving the collaboration of all countries, and a milestone as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the IFHE.” ‘Virtual visitors’ will not only be able to hear from speakers from all over the world in a series of presentations, but also to ‘meet’ with exhibitors, and to see and discuss their products and services, on their ‘virtual’ stands. There will also be the opportunity to engage in ‘virtual’ meetings, and to get the latest ‘technical updates’ in a dedicated Workshop Area. The SIAIS and the IFHE say the 26th IFHE Congress is aimed fairly and squarely at professionals working in construction and hospital maintenance, technicians, engineers, architects,
Hospital design Covering areas and topics including Artificial Intelligence; innovation; healing architecture; the operating theatre space; case studies on the use of art in hospitals; post-occupancy evaluation of an evidenced-based designed intensive and intermediate care unit; modern healthcare architecture in Brazil; light and architecture; sustainability and humanisation in a rehabilitation centre, and in-house project management for a new trauma centre and high isolation hospital cluster.
Advanced technologies Featuring topics including robots and problem solving; the benefits of digitalisation, energy efficiency in healthcare, and light for health and wellness.
The hospital environment Topics covered will include: Optimisation of design solutions for surplus heating and cooling; retrofitted energy recovery systems for air-handling units in a hospital building; the ‘trade-off’ between energy reduction, cost, and innovation in
Speakers (l-r): Amir Ibrahimagic, Cristiane Neves da Silva, Hiroshi Yasuhara, Katiuska Caicedo, Maurizio Gimigliano, and Tiina Jouppila. 18 Health Estate Journal January 2021
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