Identification: WED06
Credits: None available.
This panel features team members who developed and executed an air quality testing process for operating rooms. The team includes a board certified surgeon, an air quality expert, a mechanical engineer, and a hospital design and construction expert. The team provides unique perspectives on the quality of the air in operating rooms at different ventilation rates. While there is much discussion on using additional air changes to help reduce surgical site infections, there is little evidence on actual benefits.
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Identification: WED07
Credits: None available.
This session presents “zone maintenance,” a successful strategy to manage both patient and caregiver satisfaction. A maintenance technician is assigned to the nursing team to provide immediate assistance with needs in the physical environment; to include inspecting, monitoring, and correcting Life Safety, Environment of Care and Infection control issues. The zone maintenance technicians are responsible for both routine maintenance and immediate needs, and at the end of the day technicians leave with the assurance that they contributed to patient care by keeping their zones code compliant, safe, secure, and comfortable.
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Identification: WED09
Credits: None available.
The facilities management workforce continues to age,and the next generation must acquire the skill sets needed to maintain a functioning team. Industry-wide there has been a loss of formal succession planning for skilled trades, which typically leads to the reliance on more outsourced services in skilled trade areas. This session will share experiences with a holistic approach to succession planning including the value of internship programs.
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Identification: WED08
Credits: None available.
Value engineering is often guilty of cutting features needed for reliability, but what if the whole project reviewed were unnecessary? Commissioning is showing that traditional design approaches often treat symptoms rather than provide cures. Using an investigative mind-set, owners can share diagnostic insights with their design team that produce fresh ideas, cut costs, and improve project outcomes. This session will share practical methods for owners and consultants to maximize value by applying commissioning principles early in design.
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Identification: WED13
Credits: None available.
Transition to continuous commissioning to improve your building system performance. This session presents a practical example of the essential steps to establish an energy plan, build an energy team, and employ an automatic HVAC fault detection and diagnostic system as strategic decision support to increase energy savings, patient satisfaction, and operational performance. Continuous commissioning gives staff the confidence that they are operating building systems at the optimum levels for comfort and reliability and at the highest energy efficiency.
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Identification: WED10
Credits: None available.
The 10-year past chair of the NFPA committee on emergency power supplies discusses emergency power operation and management for the beginning facility manager. The focus is the new CMS emergency preparedness requirements for emergency power systems, along with inspection, testing, maintenance, load assessment, operation, finding and mitigating vulnerabilities, and planning for power failures. The session will provide more than 100 detailed best practices intended to help attendees improve emergency power dependability.
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Identification: WED11
Credits: None available.
Understanding regulatory codes is essential for proper maintenance of a health care facility. Recent editions of the codes have introduced new requirements that can ease the difficulties of maintaining a facility, if used properly. This session serves to reinforce knowledge of long-standing requirements, while providing an introduction to new requirements. Test your knowledge with a live code quiz on NFPA 99, NFPA 101®, and the reference standards, including an open discussion of questions with a lower percentage of correct responses.
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Identification: WED12
Credits: None available.
Imaging equipment used in diagnostic and treatment facilities benefits greatly when supplied by uninterruptible power sources (UPS). Such sources provide voltage regulation and protection from power sags and swells and momentary interruptions, and prevent the loss of data and disruptions. Stand-alone UPS systems are costly for maintenance, operation, and floor space allocations. Using a central and modular flywheel system for the UPS source will have a payback of five years or less when compared to standard battery-type UPS systems.
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Identification: WED14
Credits: None available.
A master plan cannot thrive on architecture alone. A complete facility planning effort cannot consist of only programmed architectural spaces, and the building cannot function without engineering systems. Through case studies, the engineering and architectural team show how integrating engineering efforts into a master plan effort will result in a better utilized space and design. Attendees will leave armed with a process checklist and tools to understand and explain the importance of including engineering in a master plan design effort.
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Identification: WED15
Credits: None available.
Predicting future funding can seem like guesswork. This session will look at how the Department of Defense projects future funding requirements for Congressional funding. With the use of the COE-CERL BUILDER program, this session will address individual and large portfolio needs within the Department of Defense and how to use a decision model that addresses risk, code compliance, equipment life cycle replacement, and future work plans. Attendees will learn to balance current and future facilities needs with budget needs.
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