INSTITUTE NEWS Cardiff conference to focus on climate change


Among the speakers at the IHEEM 2019 Regional Conference will be Alan Fogarty, Dave Pitman, Greg Markham, Mike Ralph, Pete Sellars, Tracey Gauci, and Ian Hinitt.


The 2019 IHEEM Regional Conference, a one-day event being held in Cardiff next month, will focus on the impact of climate change on the healthcare estate, and the implications for its support and operational services. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.


The IHEEM 2019 Regional Conference and Exhibition is being held at the Copthorne Hotel in Cardiff on 5 September, and is being organised by IHEEM and the IHEEM Welsh Branch. The conference – with the overarching theme, ‘Heatwave’ – will see a range of expert speakers discuss topics related to climate change and its impact, ranging from ‘Rising CO2


levels and the healthcare


environment’, and ‘Designing through the lens of the UN Sustainable Design Goals’, to ‘Climate change and high temperatures affecting the operation of medical devices’, and ‘The impact of weather extremes on water supplies’.


Increasing consciousness IHEEM’s Marketing & Events manager, Melissa Glass, said: “Climate change, and the part that we, both as individuals, and wider societies across the globe – especially in the more industrialised nations – can do to slow its progress and mitigate against some of its more extreme impacts, have been a major media focus and topic of public debate for the past 5-10 years particularly. As substantial energy users, healthcare facilities clearly have a major role to play in cutting carbon emissions. The 2019 IHEEM Regional Conference will


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focus both on the challenges climate change presents for healthcare engineers and healthcare estates managers, and on some of the ways healthcare buildings can be operated more sustainably, and their resilience enhanced.”


Highly topical subject


IHEEM believes that – particularly given the topical subject matter – this year’s conference and accompanying exhibition will have a ‘universal appeal’. Melissa Glass said: “Delegates will be drawn not only from NHS healthcare estates and healthcare engineering teams operating both within and outside Wales, but also from the Welsh Government, Public Health Wales, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, private hospitals, the design and construction supply chain, and suppliers.”


Among the morning’s presentations will be a look, by Mike Ralph BEng, CEng, FIHEEM, Principal Engineer, NHSI England, and chair of the IHEEM Medical Gases Technical Platform, at the contribution


The venue for the 2019 IHEEM Regional Conference is Cardiff’s Copthorne Hotel.


Infection control considerations On an altogether different tack, examining ‘The challenges to infection prevention in healthcare settings posed by climate change’ will be Tracey Gauci RGN, BSc, MSc, Co-ordinator, Welsh Branch, of the Infection Prevention Society, who is also Patron to the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals, and Deputy clinical director at Gama Healthcare. Also speaking before a morning ‘Q&A’ session and coffee break will be Oswyn Parry, a Training consultant at water training consultancy, Airewater, considering ‘The impact of weather extremes on water supplies’. One of two subsequent pre-lunch sessions will see Greg Markham BEng (Hons) CEng, FIHEEM, MIET, MIWIFM, Technical director at EMCOR UK, and an IHEEM Past-President, discuss ‘Rising CO2 levels and the implications for the healthcare environment, both internally and externally’. He said: “The potential impacts are not just confined to the caring environments, but there is also an implication for the productivity and effectiveness of all the support service.” Next, David Pitman BSc (Hons) CEng, Dip Mgmt. FIET, FCIBSE, FIHEEM, director, Building Engineering, at ARUP, will present


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that medical gases and volatile anaesthetic agents make to global warming, and at ‘what the sector needs to consider and manage, through engineering controls and good practice’, in this area. Mike Ralph will speak in an address entitled ‘Is it medical gas or hot air?’


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