Webinar Time:  0900 BC / 1000 AB & SK* / 1100 MB / 1200 ON & QC / 1300 NB & NS / 1330 NL
One hour in length
* SK - 1000 during Daylight Savings time; otherwise 1100

Wednesday March 26, 2014

Webinar 1
MD 15161-2013, Control of Legionella in Mechanical Systems

Speaker:  Michael Halpin, BSc., Certified HACCP Manager, Nalco, An Ecolab Company - Environmental Hygiene Services Division

Engineered water systems in public buildings that are contaminated with Legionella present the facility management team with significant public health, image, regulatory and legal risk. Public Works and Government Services Canada have recently issued a new Standard for the Control of Legionella in Mechanical Systems.  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that there are between 8,000 and 18,000 cases of Legionnaires’ Disease each year and cite a 219% increase in reported cases between 2000 and 2009.  This presentation will look at how the risks can be reduced by implementing strategies such as hazard assessments, cleaning and disinfection procedures, secondary disinfection etc. The benefits of utilizing a proactive rather than a reactive approach will be considered and assessed.

Wednesday April 30, 2014

Webinar 2
Advancing Infection Prevention during Construction and Renovation of Health Care Buildings

Speaker:  Gordon Burrill, P.Eng., FASHE, CHFM, CHC, President, Teegor Consulting Inc.

The field of infection control during construction in health care buildings is evolving at lightning speed.  Healthcare facility managers and construction teams are discovering new techniques and ideas to keep our patients safer almost every day.  The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) released an updated standard in this field in December of 2012 bringing the standards world in line with the industry....and the industry continues to learn and grow in this area.  This webinar will explore some of the substantive additions in the newest edition of the CSA Z317.13 standard as well as some innovative techniques being used on current construction projects across the country.

Wednesday October 29, 2014

Webinar 3
Effects of Climate Change on Healthcare

Speaker:  David S. Burson, ALA, Senior Project Manager, Partners Healthcare

Resiliency and Climate Change Adaptation Measures: The New Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston Massachusetts (Mr. David S. Burson, AIA; Senior Project Manager, Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA, USA)

Mr. Burson will provide an overview of the new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, which opened in April 2013 on a waterfront site on Boston Harbor, with emphasis on site planning and facility design measures taken to achieve climate resiliency standards.  The construction of this new LEED Gold certified hospital incorporates sustainability, energy efficiency and passive survivability in anticipation of climate change impacts over the life of the building.  Research on recent and future climate change risks, including lessons learned from Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina and data on sea level rise projections for the Boston area, informed development decisions that prioritize safety for staff, patients and visitors.  Examples of how the site and facility were designed to mitigate climate change impacts include: 

  • Elevation of ground level occupancy above the current 100 year flood elevations and anticipated sea level rise over the next century;
  • Strategic placement of emergency generators, cogeneration unit and primary electrical switchgear on the roof of the building;
  • Location of building garage vents and subsurface areaway sills above flood elevations; 
  • Construction of the landscape perimeter to provide storm surge barriers in an extreme weather event; 
  • Incorporation of operable window systems throughout the facility to ensure patient comfort and safety.

The resilient design of the new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital allows it to take full advantage of its harborfront location on a former brownfield site, providing therapy gardens and dining terraces, adaptive water sports programming, aquatic therapy pools and an environmental learning center for the benefit of both the hospital community and the surrounding neighborhood.

Wednesday November 26, 2014

Webinar 4
Fire Code Requirements for the Use of Flammable and Combustible Liquids in Hospitals

Speaker:  Lisa Miller, CET, Senior Associate, LRI Engineering Inc.

Health care facilities often use solvents, cleaners and preserving solutions that are classified as flammable or combustible liquids and regulated by the Fire Code. This session will provide an introduction to liquid classification and the requirements of Part 4, “Flammable Liquids and Combustible Liquids”, of the Fire Code.  The presentation will introduce requirements for the storage, handling and use of liquids in laboratories and storage rooms typically found in health care facilities. Specific emphasis will be placed on applicable requirements in existing facilities that are retroactively regulated by the Fire Code.  The session will emphasize the value of planning for life safety to mitigate the hazard of fires and/or explosions. It will include an opportunity for participants to evaluate various typical building conditions and to discuss Fire Code compliance issues observed

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Wednesday March 23, 2016

Webinar 1
Energy Exchange Opportunities Leveraging Building & Municipal Wastewater
Speaker:  Rick Lawlor, International Waste Water Systems Inc.

Building and municipal sanitary wastewater has traditionally been ignored as a heat transfer medium, despite its attractive source temperature. Typically between 72 F and 65 F. New technologies are available that facilitate the opportunity to expoit this medium as a heat-source and heat-sink, reliably and economically.  When coupled with this technology, conventional commercial mechanical HVAC equipment & systems can (1) lower heating and cooling operational costs, (2) deliver competitive, or better, green HVAC system installed costs, (3) facilitate viable and scalable energy recovery opportunities, and (4) reduce or eliminate carbon-based fuel consumption. Waste-water energy exchange is proving to be a viable and credible means to improve the energy and environmental bottom-line.

Wednesday April 27, 2016

Webinar 2
Infection Prevention & Control:  Underscoring its Importance for Healthcare Engineers

Speaker:  Kim Allain, BScN RN MHS CIC, Nova Scotia Health & Wellness
Speaker:  Suzanne Rhodenizer Rose BScN RN MHS CIC, Nova Scotia Health & Wellness

Many evidence-informed infection prevention and control (IP&C) practices in healthcare facilities depends on compliance with engineering controls to be effective. Wading through the extensive and continuously updated litany of guidance documents/recommendations pertaining to IP&C can be a difficult challenge for engineers with competing priorities. The objectives of this presentation include a review of current and emerging trends in IP&C, build capacity in healthcare engineers to understand rationale for IP&C decisions-making and emphasize how healthcare engineers play a role in the ongoing pursuit in quality, patient/resident safety & minimizing healthcare-associated infections.

Wednesday October 26, 2016

Webinar 3
Re / Retro Commissioning in Healthcare

Speaker:  Doug Dunn, Engineering Technologist, LEED AP

This session will cover a number of key elements pertaining to commissioning, and re and retro commissioning of healthcare facilities.
• commissioning defined 
• project opportunities in new construction for facilities management
• why the focus needs to be operations not only maintenance
• the focus between (building construction; building completion; LEED as it pertains to commissioning; new building commissioning; re and retro commissioning)
• case studies / examples
• renovations and commissioning
• summary

Wednesday November 16, 2016 

Webinar 4
ASHRAE's Standard 188:  Managing Waterborne Pathogens
Speaker:  Steve Cutter, CHFM HFDP MBA FASHE, Director of DH Engineering Services, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Speaker:
  Linda Dickey, RN MPH CIC, Director, Epidemiology & Infection Prevention, UC Irvine Health, Orange, CA, USA

This one hour webinar is intended to provide participants with a high level overview of the ASHRAE 188, Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems. In addition, the presenters will discuss some of the general health risks associated with waterborne pathogen and some practical approaches to risk mitigation.

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Wednesday March 25, 2015

Webinar 1
Medical Air: What You Need to Know
 

Speaker:  Paul Edwards, BCom, Vice President Sales, Marketing & Business Development, Air Liquide Healthcare

Medical air USP, a drug regulated by Health Canada, is produced on-site at most healthcare facilities. This seminar gives context to the importance of medical air by reviewing therapeutic uses, presents current and draft regulations pertaining to the manufacturing of this drug on-site, and discusses Best Practices to ensure a product quality that meets the reasonable expectations of clinicians and patients.

Wednesday April 29, 2015

Webinar 2
Energy Efficiency, condensation control and personal protection starts with inspecting mechanical insulation

Speaker:  Steve Clayman, B.Comm., Director of Energy Initiatives, Thermal Insulation Association of Canada

Pipe Insulation? Duct insulation? Equipment insulation? Things that don’t light up, beep, come with touch-screens and remain mostly out of sight? And, no moving parts to wear out? What can be exciting about that? LEED and mechanical insulation; what’s the connection there?

We’ll find out how correctly specified and installed mechanical insulation impacts on energy conservation, greenhouse gas emissions and health and safety issues. We’ll talk about a no-cost/low-cost approach to determining when insulation on mechanical systems requires immediate attention. We’ll see how easy it is to “fix” seemingly complicated insulation deficiencies. We’ll talk about personnel protection, condensation control and address mould growth. We’ll review how a free, downloadable software tool called, “3E Plus” can tie all of these elements together.

Wednesday October 28, 2015

Webinar 3
Combustible Piping in Health Care Facilities

Speaker:  Gordon Lefort, Technical Representative, IPEX

This one hour webinar will cover the following topics; combustible piping advantages, code requirements, flame & smoke, CSA Z317, and fire stopping in relation to their applications in Health Care Facilities.

Wednesday November 25, 2015 

Webinar 4
Proposed requirements for Z317.2-15 (HVAC)

Speakers:  Gordon Burrill, President, Teegor Consulting Inc.; Nick Stark, Vice President Knowledge Management, HH Angus & Associates Limited

One of the most used CSA standards in the Health Care Facility (HCF) field is CAN/CSA Z317.2-10 Special Requirements for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems in Health Care Facilities.  This important document is referenced by building codes across the country.  Over the past five years this field, like so many others, has advanced and new technologies continue to push the evolution of standards.

The technical sub-committee responsible for this standard is wrapping up their work toward a new and improved edition of the document.  Undoubtedly, this new edition (expected to be released in spring/summer of 2015) will eventually be adopted by the building codes across the nation as has its predecessors.  There will be changes – some may well impact how you do your job!  Be among the first to know what those changes will be by attending this webinar.

This webinar is intended to highlight the evolution of the HVAC standard and feature some of the sections that have been improved or added since the release of the 2010 edition.  Both the chair, and vice-chair of the technical subcommittee will share their thoughts on what the changes are, why they were implemented and what they mean to CHES members.

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Webinar 1  Wednesday January 18, 2017 
Topic: The Medical Air Paradox
Speaker:  Paul Edwards, Vice President, Medical Gas, Air Liquide Healthcare
Description: Through Air Liquide's aerALin quality control service we have access to "big data" measured at multiple healthcare facilities across the country. While analyzing this data we discovered the most common quality breach comes from the medical air plants themselves, and not outdoor air pollution. This presentation demonstrates how an evidence based approach can lead to improvements in healthcare delivery. In other words, we can only manage what we measure.
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Webinar 2 Wednesday February 15, 2017
Topic: Infection Prevention & Control: Underscoring its Importance for Healthcare Engineers
Speakers: Titus Wong, Medical Microbiologist, Infection Control Physician, Vancouver Coastal Health
Elizabeth Bryce, Regional Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control, Vancouver Coastal Health
Description: This presentation will discuss the various re-engineering strategies to reduce antimicrobial burden, the studies to date and their gaps and the questions still to be answered.  Various examples from the presenters' experience will be used to illustrate key points.  A pilot project assessing re-engineered rooms at Vancouver General Hospital will be described.
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Webinar 3  Wednesday March 15, 2017 
Topic:  Managing Fire and Smoke Barriers in Today's Healthcare Environment 
Speakers:  Kelly Mason, Director of Healthcare, Partnerships, Specified Technologies Inc.
Eric DeAmorin, National Sales Manager of Canada, Specified Technologies Inc.
Description: This presentation will cover the protocol or lack of in managing rated barriers to insure life safety.  We will discuss the proper process for compliance.  We will discuss the selection of tested assmblies that best fir the application.  We will discuss tools that could be implemented to insure success.
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Webinar 4  Wednesday April 19, 2017 
Topic:  Engineered Infection Prevention – Standards, Guidelines, U.S. Trend & Innovations
Speaker:  Barry Hunt, President & CEO, Class 1 Inc.
Description: Engineered Infection Prevention (EIP) is defined as automatic technology built into hospital infrastructure that is specifically designed to prevent infections.  EIP has the potential to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs) by 80%.   Every dollar spent on EIP can return up to $10 per year to the healthcare system.  This webinar will provide the latest information in this fast developing field.
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Webinar 5  Wednesday May 17, 2017
Topic:  Water Scarcity - Top 10 Strategies to Reduce Water Usage and Minimize Your Business Risk 
Speakers:  Patrick Racine, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Klenzoid Canada Inc.
Mathew Bonarek, Business Development Manager, Klenzoid Canada Inc.
Description: Water scarcity and water security are now becoming strategic business issues. A proper action plan will require a three tiered approach: the rehabilitation of our failing infrastructures, investment in point of use technology and for institutional and industrial users, partnering with local experts to help tackle their water quality and quantity issues.   This  webinar will cover the top 10 things a healthcare facility can do to reduce water usage in their heating and cooling application
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Webinar 6 Wednesday June 21, 2017 
Topic: Infection Control Risk Assessment - CSA Z317.13-17 - What's New!
Speaker: Gordon Burrill, P.Eng, President, Teegor Consulting Inc.
Description:

In January of 2017, the next generation of the CSA Z317.13 standard was released. The Infection control during construction, renovation and maintenance of health care facilities standard was first introduced in 2003 and has revolutionized how we maintain patient safety during times of construction, renovation or maintenance activity. The industry continues to evolve and the standard is working to stay current and up-to-date. This 4th edition considers this evolution to bring the standard up to date with advances in construction and facilities management industry practices.

This webinar will briefly explore the standards development cycle and key components of the standard. The bulk of the webinar will be focusing on where the standard has changed, evolved and improved. Real life construction challenges have helped the standard development committee improve the standard to remove ambiguity and improve usability.

At the completion of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
Identify the standards development process
Identify key areas of changes to the Z317.13-17 standard.
Know how to get access to the most current version of the standard.

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Webinar 7 Wednesday October 18, 2017
Topic: Energy Management in Healthcare – Case studies of Successful Projects
Speaker: Stephen Kooiman, P.Eng., MASc, Mechanical Team Lead, Prisom Engineering
Robert Greenwald, P.Eng., President, Prism Engineering
Description: This webinar will cover case studies on Chiller Upgrades, Lighting implementations, HVAC system upgrades, Energy Audits, Engagement programs, Thermal Assessments, Continuous Optimization studies and implementation, and Controls Upgrades.
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Webinar 8 Wednesday November 15, 2017
Topic: Infection Control: Air separation, air flow and relative space pressurization; airborne isolation rooms, protective environment rooms, and other areas requiring high level air separation
Speaker: David Cyr, P.Eng, Mechanical Engineer, Partner, LaPorte Engineering Inc.
Description: Drawing on Laporte’s industrial experience in Pharmaceutical cleanroom designs, the presentation will outline design techniques of HVAC systems and how we believe these design approaches would apply well to ORs, MDRs or isolation rooms and mitigate the frequent issues / challenges of cross contamination, temperature and humidity control: Air separation, air flow, and relative space pressurization, Airborne Isolation rooms, protective environment rooms, and other special precaution rooms requiring high level air separation.
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