Social Add-Ons-Extra Fees apply

Two Great Facility Tours: Choose one! South Health Campus and Arthur J. Childs Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Great CHES Golf Tournament – Kananaskis Golf Club

Women in CHES Brunch-Marriott Downtown – sponsored by Colliers Project Leaders

Full Companion Program (Sunday-Monday) – for guests of registered delegates

Sunday Only trip with Companion Program

1830-2030 OPENING RECEPTION (All registrants welcome to attend – no additional fees!) – Sponsored by Class 1 Inc.
Opening Reception Entertainment sponsored by Precise Parklink Inc.

STUDIO BELL-NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE

Shuttle buses will operate from the Marriott Downtown to the venue beginning at 5:45 with last departure from Studio Bell at 9pm.

Green Park Recognized Vendor Program sponsored by: Siemens

1. Describe the key benefits of early contractor involvement in the design-assist process, including improved pricing evaluation and constructability analysis.
2. Illustrate the advantages of the CM with GMP model for owners, design teams, and contractors in reducing risks, optimizing designs, and accelerating project timelines.
3. Explain how collaborative product selection and early vendor engagement minimize uncertainties and reduce contingency costs during construction.
4. Assess the transformative impact of the design-assist model on project workflows, stakeholder alignment, and overall project efficiency.

CEU – Planning and Design – 1 credit

1. Identify key strategies for integrating patient- and family-centered care principles into non-clinical healthcare environments.
2. Describe the role of scripting policies in enhancing professionalism and communication within support services departments.
3. Evaluate the impact of building operations and maintenance procedures on patient satisfaction and overall care experience.
4. List best practices for ensuring compliance with safety codes, regulations, and quality assurance standards in healthcare facilities management.

CEU – Maintenance & Operations: 1 credit

1. Describe an approach to reimagine aging healthcare infrastructure.
2. Provide an overview of an innovative approach to project delivery in revitalization of an aging site to create system capacity.
3. Describe lessons learned from the delivery of complex renovations in aging facilities.
4. Provide insights into the benefits of a viable and sustainable path forward to reimagine gaining healthcare infrastructure.

CEU – Maintenance & Operations, Finance Management, Administration: 1 credit

This session is the second part, as we had presented the first part in an earlier CHES presentation aboyut the KIvalliq Long Term Care Facility, the first of it’s kind in Nunvaut, Canada.  In this session we will review lessons learned as the facility opens in early 2025 as well as how these lessons will be applied in the proposed Kitikmeot Long Term Care Facility planned for Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

After attending this session, attendees will be able to:

1. Assess the facility design and how it was built
2. Review Lessons Learned during the process of design and construction
3. Describe how these lessons are being applied in future projects in the arctic

CEU – Planning, Design & Construction: 1 credit

1. Identify at least three major engineering challenges faced when designing a hospital in climactically challenging environment such as extreme temperatures, water scarcity, and remote logistics.
2. Understand at least two strategies for effective remote collaboration and project management, applicable to similar large-scale engineering projects.
3. Explain at least two ways in which engineering design and innovations for challenging climates can contribute to improved patient well-being and outcomes, such as enhanced comfort and safety.
4. Describe at least two sustainable building practices that can minimize environmental impact and ensure energy efficiency while withstanding a harsh climate.

CEU – Codes & Standards Compliance, Planning Design & Construction: 1 credit

1. Describe the successful people approach by empowering and engaging from senior staff to facilities staff and everyone in between.
2. Understand how training, knowledge sharing, and capacity building is key to effectively accomplishing energy management best practices, energy reduction projects, and reducing ghg emissions.
3. Identify 3 brief case studies which will include cost, energy and GHG avoidances to show case the challenges that arise and are overcome to successfully implement energy management best practices and projects.

CEU – Maintenance & Operations, Finance Management: 1 credit

1. Understand the history of “grandfathering”.
2. Evaluate whether the concept should be utilized for their existing building stock.
3. Determine the risks being accepted if making use of “grandfathering”.
4. Communicate with clinical leaders with regards to accepted risks.

CEU – Codes & Standards Compliance: 1 credit

1. Understand why projects fail (project management within facilities).
2. Know importance of defining “project success” in your organization to align expectations.
3. Understand scheduling as a component of project success and how scheduling contributes.
4. Provide effective scheduling techniques.

CEU – Planning, Design & Construction, Finance Management: 1 credit

Sponsored by:

1. Understand the importance of beginning to establish culture early in any project.
2. Recognize that difference of perspectives can be productive (if you allow to be).
3. Take home ideas to use on their next new hospital construction project.

CEU – Codes & Standards Compliance, Planning Design & Construction: 1 credit

1. Recognize infrastructure challenges to implementing AI-Enabled healthcare technologies.
2. Review the development status of other industry sectors that compliment the healthcare facility redevelopment process.
3. Identify collaborative partnering opportunities that enhance healthcare redevelopment opportunities.

CEU – Codes & Standards Compliance, Planning Design & Construction: 1 credit

Sponsored by:

1. Describe “The Missing Middle” in mental health by identifying key gaps in service delivery and proposing strategies to address these gaps.
2. Explain how CASA Mental Health empowers their team by outlining specific initiatives and practices that enhance team performance and service quality.
3. Present the IPD Delivery Method for four separate buildings located throughout Alberta by detailing the steps involved and the expected outcomes for each facility.
4. Identify the benefits and contributions of IPD for project delivery providing examples of successful implementations and their impact on project efficiency.

CEU – Codes & Standards Compliance, Planning Design & Construction: 1 credit

1. Assess the applicability of DV to their specific context or project.
2. Identify myths and misconceptions of DV (and be aware of a more accurate perspective).
3. List the benefits and limitations of DV Engage interest holders in their context to explore the beneficial application of DV where applicable.

CEU – Maintenance & Operations, Code & Standards Compliance: 1 credit

1. Understand the key principles and benefits of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Alliance contract models in healthcare projects.
2. Identify the roles and responsibilities of designers, owners and builders within collaborative contract models and how they contribute to project success.
3. Analyze the impact of collaborative contract models on project outcomes, including innovation, efficiency, and constituent alignment. – Evaluate the effectiveness of shared responsibility and collective decision-making in enhancing healthcare project delivery.

CEU – Planning, Design & Construction, Finance Management: 1 credit