FOREWORD
The time has arrived to unleash innovation
I first want to thank outgoing IFHE President Daniela Pedrini for doing such a wonderful job as our leader during the most unprecedented time in our IFHE history. Unfortunately, the IFHE 2020 Congress in Italy could not happen as planned due to COVID-19 but Daniela and team adjusted and created an extremely successful virtual Congress in early 2021. The first virtual conference in our history! Along with a virtual 50th Anniversary Celebration for IFHE! I am honoured and humbled to
become President of IFHE for 2022- 24. To follow in the footsteps of such great leaders such as Daniela, Darryl, Douwe, Liliana, Ole and many others before them. I am so happy that the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society (CHES) did such a fantastic job of hosting the 27th Congress of IFHE in Toronto, Canada. On that note I would like to thank some of the key people that worked so hard to ensure the Congress was planned well and went smoothly:
l Jim McArthur (Congress Chair)
l Roger Hollis (CHES President)
l Kate Butler (CHES Treasurer)
l Donna Dennison (CHES Executive Director)
l Sarah Seward (Events Management, Congress Lead)
l Darryl Pitcher (IFHE Past President)
l Daniela Pedrini (IFHE Outgoing President)
l Tanya Hutchison (Events Management)
The theme of IFHE 2022 was ‘Unleashing Innovation: Healthcare Engineering Excellence’. I believe all attendees learned more about the incredible responses to the pandemic that were orchestrated by facility professionals, contractors, and engineering/architectural consultants. We also learned about the many innovative ways that the healthcare engineering community is decarbonising our facilities and making them more sustainable. We all left the Congress understanding the immense task and responsibility that we have in the next few years when it comes to the fight against climate change.
IFHE DIGEST 2023
Hospital Campus in future editions of the IFHE Digest. The IFHE International Building Award
was also presented at the Congress. Congratulations to the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital, Alberta, Canada and one of the many facilities operated by Alberta Health Services. We also hope to share the details of this amazing facility in the next edition of the IFHE Digest. Andy Wavell, Joint General Secretary, and Steve Drinkrow, Treasurer, both announced their retirement from ExCo after many
years of dedicated service to IFHE. I thank both and their families for their hard work over the years. Andy will
Steve Rees
Steve Rees is president of the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE) and the former chief program officer of Capital Management at Alberta Health Services. He is a certified facility manager, holds three trade certificates, and is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s construction administration programme. He has worked in healthcare facilities management for over 40 years and is a past president of the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society.
The Congress started with our ExCo Meeting on Saturday 17 September and our Council Meeting on the following Sunday, in which over 30 countries were represented. At the Council Meeting, Germany and the USA both presented excellent bids for the 2026 IFHE Congress. After a close vote, the USA bid was victorious and the Association of Medical Facility Professionals (AMFP) will be hosting IFHE 2026 in New Orleans, USA. Also, at the Council Meeting we accepted the offer from Belgium to host our meetings in 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium. The inaugural Global Healthcare Energy
Awards were also presented at IFHE 2022. Congratulations to Kaiser Permanente Health and the Vallejo Hospital Campus for being top in the world! What you have done at this facility is truly inspirational. I am hoping all of us will be able to read about the detailed story of the Vallejo
continue to work on the IFHE Digest and be our secretariat liaison but Darry Pitcher will take his position as Joint General Secretary. Matthias Schwabe will replace Steve as Treasurer. Thanks to both Darryl and Matthias for accepting their new positions. I know they will do well. Our next in-person meetings of ExCo
and Council will be hosted by SMAES in Mexico City in November 2023 and I look forward to seeing many colleagues who recently gathered in Toronto joining the IFHE community again. The purpose of IFHE is to encourage
and facilitate exchange of information and experience in the broad field of hospital and healthcare facility design, construction, engineering, commissioning, maintenance, and estate management. Never has the sharing of information among IFHE members been more important. We have learned during the pandemic of how essential it is to share our experiences and knowledge globally. And now we must stick together and help each other decarbonise our facilities, prepare for the many impacts of climate change, and other challenges that the healthcare engineering community will face – including future pandemics. The IFHE Executive Committee look
forward to improving the ways we communicate and share information. Our goal is to increase the value of your IFHE membership and enhance your experience. We would appreciate your input and ideas, so please feel free to contact any of the executive committee including myself with your thoughts.
Steve Rees
President – International Federation of Healthcare Engineering
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