Since our last newsletter, your Executive Committee has been very busy working on the legal registration of IFHE and changing our financial institution. To do so we must revise our Statute. The bulk of the work has been completed and when ready the new Statutes will be shared with Council members, and an update will be provided to all members as this progresses.

The planning for our IFHE 2024 Congress in Cape Town continues and is being led by Kevin Poggenpoel (IFHE VP), Petrus Swanepoel (Congress Chair) and their team at the South African Federation of Healthcare Engineering (SAFHE). I look forward to the Congress and returning to Cape Town, October 15th – 17th, 2024. The Congress theme is Patient Centred Healthcare Design. Please participate in the IFHE energy award “Cut the Carbs” IFHE Global Healthcare Carbon Challenge that will be presented to winners in Cape Town.

I would also like you to submit healthcare projects that you have been recently involved with in your country for the IFHE 2024 International Building Award. This prestigious award will also be presented in Cape Town. Please go to www.ifhe.info for more information on the congress and the awards. Please make plans now and register for this exciting conference. As of today, there are only 191 days until the start of the Congress!

While you are online at www.ifhe.info you will see a new improved look of our webpage. Thanks to Darryl Pitcher, Gunnar Baekken and others involved in the updating.

We also heard sad news that Harry Waugh, a long-time member of IHEEM and contributor to IFHE passed away recently. Harry was a kind gentleman that actively took part in many IFHE Congresses over the years.  We will all miss him and pass on condolences to his family.

Thank you and please take care.
 
Steve Rees
President, IFHE

Get involved with the 2024 International Building Award.

 

 The past year has been the hottest year in recorded history. The world’s coral reefs are experiencing bleaching, due to the extreme heat of our oceans. The World Health Organization has called Climate Change the defining health crisis of our time.
 
Each one of us, every day, has the opportunity to make a difference. There are so many ways to reduce our carbon footprint. We would like to start publishing helpful carbon reduction hints, here. If you have accomplishments, please reach out to us, and we will share them with the IFHE Community. CLICK HERE to share your accomplishments - these will be published in future Journals and Newsletters.
 
But most important, remember to participate in the 2024 IFHE Carbon Awards. The Goal of IFHE is to support you by giving global recognition to every hospital or healthcare building that has reduced its carbon from energy initiatives by 5% or more, over a two-year period. CLICK HERE to email the team who are standing by to assist.
 

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The IHS annual conference was held on 12 April 2024 with over 160 participants in the Trafo Halle Baden.

Tomas Bucher, President of the IHS, welcomed guests from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Austria.

The nine presentations were considered highly interesting and relevant.  The tea breaks and lunch were held among the 25 exhibitors who supported the event.

The lively dialogue between participants and exhibitors and the delicious catering contributed to a great atmosphere and supported networking and connection.

After the President's farewell, the aperitif riche with bar tables and seating provided a delightful and cheerful conclusion to the 2024 Annual Conference.

The gathering also hosted a meeting of IFHE-EU Executive Committee pictured above, and promoted the 2025 IFHE-EU Congress in Antwerp in May 2025. 

CLICK HERE to read a full report on the HEAJ Congress held in Tokyo in November 2023 to the theme, "Reflecting on the Past and Advancing Together" and a detailed summary of HEAJ activities including a promotion of the coming 2024 Congress.

FSTA is the Danish Federation for Hospital Engineering and Architecture originally established in the early 1970’s as a chapter of the Chartered Master Engineers organization which undertook training and courses directed towards hospital technical facility departments.

In the first four decades memberships where personal and with a requirement that you held a Chartered Master Engineer qualification. Times were changing and a need for a scope adjustment was desirable. By 2011 the organization transformed into its current form where the scope widened into hospital engineering and architecture and importantly the dominant type of membership became hospitals, institutions and companies with an interest in healthcare engineering and architecture. The change of membership structure reduced the administrative burden and significantly increased membership.

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