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modern healthcare architecture in Brazil, light and architecture, sustainability and humanisation in a rehabilitation centre, in-house project management for a new trauma centre and a high-isolation hospital cluster. Today’s technologically-advanced
world impacts on the healthcare world. Problem solving via robotics, the benefits of digitalisation, energy efficiency in healthcare, and light for health and wellness were explored in the Advanced Technologies session. Other presentations included the optimisation of design solutions for a surplus heating and cooling system; retrofitted energy recovery system for air handling units in a hospital building; and the trade-off between energy reduction, cost and innovation in healthcare in a changing climate. Congress discussions in the week
also examined practical settings and environment within maternity wards; efficient and discrete logistics, as well as the approach and some reflections on automatic guided vehicles. In addition, functional safety integrity was explored to enhance electrical resilience in healthcare facilities.
Other presentations Risk management is a continuous, gradual and proactive process that must be incorporated into the culture of the organisation through a targeted policy by its managers, who assign specific responsibilities and appropriate roles within the company. Case studies from Argentina were analysed, as well as the role of hospital engineers in disaster prevention. Healthcare facility managers must
oversee financial, technical and administrative operations within a health organisation and they have to plan, organise, implement, evaluate and monitor all facility programmes and departments. We also discussed digitalisation for healthcare: case studies and best practices of hospital agencies, BIM tools and methodologies. Also discussed were the basic goals
of infection control to protect the patient and healthcare personnel from infection. During the meeting, we scrutinised severe disease following respiratory challenge with influenza A virus and looked at fully automated sterilisation production. Finally, there was a presentation review on ventilation and contamination control and
IFHE DIGEST 2022
Three awards given at the 26th IFHE Congress 2020
The 26th IFHE Congress central theme of global climate action focused on a new, advanced vision of professional aspects, such as planning and design of health facilities, organisation and management, advanced technologies, risk management, sustainability, and resilience, as well as the hospital environment in relation to climate change. The awards criteria, and the winners, were as follows.
l The IFHE International Building Award 2020 recognised the importance of the design of healthcare facilities, including residential care homes and other supported living care environments.
Winner: Steven Coppens of VK Architects & Engineers for a project at Sint Maarten General Hospital in Mechelen, Belgium. The judges said: “Excellent - A great sustainable design with all the design aspects for a wellbeing hospital. With a very compact construction, the buildings have a lot of natural light and views, and very qualified spaces for patients and staff. Healing environment, great context integration.”
l The IFHE International 2020 Climate Change and Sustainability of Healthcare Award recognised projects – including documents, research (in progress or completed), and studies – aimed at increasing awareness of the climate change challenge, and the pressures/risks to health facilities and communities.
Winner: Paolo Bianco, Azienda USL della Romagna, Italy, for ‘The Sustainability Action Plan of AUSL Romagna, Local Health Agency Hospitals and Homecare sections’. The judges said: “A wide-ranging project, spreading over a large area, involving all the architectural and plant components of healthcare buildings with innovative choices, also taking into account mobility, with important effects on energy saving.”
l The IFHE International 2020 Student Competition Award, themed ‘Healthcare Engineering – Global Climate Action and Energy Requirements’ – recognised young people who demonstrate a commitment to health design innovation through design strategies, improving best practices and the enhancement of green areas for health benefits.
Winner: Alice Zaffarana for her project, ‘Bee at Home: a Modular Prefabricated Community Healthcare Centre’, which ‘proposes an advanced strategic vision with the aim of providing tools for the evolution of hospitals in developing countries, with the use of limited resources, and with an eye towards environmental sustainability’.
comprehensive system for the prevention of Legionella in a hospital. All in all, the 26th IFHE Congress was a huge success and we could have never predicted the level of interest, the outreach, the swift efficiency and effectiveness of the technology, the relevance of the topics in the current – and immensely challenging - global healthcare landscape and the consistently high level of presentations.
As IFHE President, I am hugely proud
to have been a part of this and of course. None of this success would have been possible without the support of the IFHE executive committee, the professionalism of our professional conference organiser, the expertise of our speakers, and the wide range of participants across sectors and continents who – although unable to travel – made this event a truly global event.
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