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Special Events
Thursday, November 4, 2010

11:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Trade Show and Lunch
Exhibitors will be on hand to display the latest products and services you need to improve and maintain your facility. Lunch in the exhibit hall makes it easy for you to enjoy your meal while networking with the best in the industry.

6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Dinner and Magician
Following a delicious meal, you will be captivated and amazed by the magic of Marcus Lehmann. For over thirty-three years, Marcus Lehmann has been using his magical charm to amaze and delight audiences throughout Indiana. His engaging performances display amusement and diversion like no other. Marcus entertains with a hands-on approach to magic that you will remember long after the conference.

Friday, November 5, 2010

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Lucas Oil Stadium Tour
Tour one of the cities newest venues, Lucas Oil Stadium. You will get an up-close, behind the scenes look at the home of the Indianapolis Colts. The tour includes a trip across the field, the visitor locker room, press box, a suite and more! This tour is available at the discount price of $5.

10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
CHFM Preparation Workshop
This workshop is designed for Facilities Managers who are interested in taking the CHFM (Certified Healthcare Facilities Manager) certification test. The workshop is divided into five sections that make up the CHFM test. You will be provided information about the makeup of the test, questions, and categories. You will learn the five categories of the test; practice answering sample questions in each category; and get practice with a sample test. Since the CHFM test is taken online, you will need to register to take the test at a location sanctioned by AHA (the American Hospital Association). It is suggested that this workshop be used to identify strengths and weaknesses, and that these be used as a basis of further preparation. It is also suggested that the CHFM test be taken in the weeks or months following this workshop. Cost of workshop is $195 and includes lunch.

Educational Sessions
November 3, 2010

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
General Session —
Healthcare Engineering is a Marathon
While the job done by healthcare engineers is an essential part of providing safe and dependable environments for patient care like a marathon, at times it can be an endurance event. During these challenging times of unrelenting cost containment, increasing regulatory burdens, and an aging workforce, many are being asked to do more with less. Even so, the work must go on, as the services provided are vital to providing the highest quality of patient care.
 
Using a marathon as a metaphor, Matt shares lessons, insights, and strategies that health care engineers can use to meet these challenges as well as improve standards, performance, and teamwork with the end result of optimizing their respective health care environments.   This is accomplished through Matt’s against all odds story of conquering cancer three times and completing a marathon after relearning how to walk.

Matt Jones, Professional Speaker/Author

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Typical Health and Safety Issues Identified in Healthcare Surveys

This narrated presentation of dozens of safety and sanitation findings includes sample pictures of identified problems from actual healthcare surveys. These health and environmental safety issues involve various backflow conditions, proper design/use of isolation rooms, contamination sources in pharmacies, ideas for good eyewash designs, non-ferrous housekeeping cleaning equipment for MRI, and improper HVAC maintenance, to name a few.

Pier-George Zanoni, PE, CSP, CIH, Consultant
Jeffrey McManus, PE, Facility Engineer, State of Michigan Dept of Community Health

Another Medical Gas Shutdown? Make the Next One Painless!

Do you feel uncomfortable when you hear the words “Medical Gas Shutdown”? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. This program will prepare you to implement new techniques to simplify the process:

Tom Spremo, Executive Director, Med Gas Solutions

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
How Wireless and Digital Technology are Advancing Healthcare

This discussion will cover four primary topics: The history and progression of wireless/digital technology; what kind of technology is being utilized and developed today in the healthcare market; how is the technology impacting hospital operations, patient outcomes, recruitment, etc.; how to design efficient spaces for various technology applications. You will be provided with excellent strategic tools and information to take back to your facilities as you plan for the future.

Donald P. Archiable, Vice President, Digital Architecture & Engineering, URS Corporation

Start Smart, Design Smart, Build Smart: Meeting the Decade’s New Challenge

Today’s healthcare is changing financial landscape and demands new and creative ways to think about design and construction. Rarely do we stop and analyze operational processes before embarking on a design and construction project; however, thoughtful planning often moves a project forward more quickly. This session describes how understanding operations and creating the ideal operational model before a project begins results in greater buy-in, on-time schedules and fewer change orders. Designing smart and building smart strategies help to optimize facility capital resources and leverage wise use of limited capital resources.

Terry Ritchey, RN, BSN, MBA, Vice President, HKS, Inc
Steve Jacobson, Senior Vice President/Associate Principal, HKS, Inc.

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Defining Facility Priorities for Your Organization

One of the challenges in developing a Master Facilities Plan is reaching consensus and alignment on what the priorities for improvement are. The Solutions Navigator™ is a specially designed “board game” assessment tool that leads cross-function teams through an interactive, collaborative process of evaluating facility-related needs and best practices. The tool helps address a wide range of facility issues including operation and financial performance, risk management and relationship management. You will complete the needs assessment exercise during the session and be able to compare your individual results with your peers and a benchmark of other healthcare organizations.

Karen Kukec, Manager, Innovation Services, Johnson Controls Inc.

Phasing a Complete Replacement Facility

This session is a case study of the recently completed 105,000 sq ft addition and renovation project at Wayne Hospital in Greenville, Ohio. The focus of this discussion will be how adding and renovating certain departments can best lead toward a complete replacement facility within an extended master planning process. You will hear the perspective of the designer, contractor and hospital regarding this community-focused endeavor.

Mark Dye, AIA, CDT, Senior Project Architect, URS Corporation

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Designing a "Net Zero Energy" Medical Office Building

Can a new medical office building be designed to use Zero Net Energy? This presentation will show you how it can be done using a step-by-step process.

John Sauer, Senior Director, Engineering, BSA LifeStructures

Is Your Building In Compliance with NFPA?

Fire and smoke damper inspections are mandated by NFPA 80 and 105 and are enforced by the Joint Commission, the International Code Council (ICC), State Fire Marshals and other Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ’s). LSS’ presentation will focus primarily on the mandatory codes and offer further explanation on the codes and why they are enforced. Through our research, we have found a large majority of Commercial Facilities throughout the United States are not in compliance with NFPA. This presentation will serve as a reminder of the code and will offer additional information on damper inspections such as the importance of having a specialized contractor perform the inspection and the documentation needed for AHJ’s after the inspection has been completed.

Craig Rutledge, Owner, Life Safety Services

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Understanding Alternative Airflow Design Trends for Healthcare Facilities: Minimize Risk and Maximize Savings

Proper ventilation design is a critical part of ensuring healthcare facilities balance the needs of controlling airborne pathogens, implement energy conservation measures, and reduce HVAC maintenance. This presentation will describe new industry methods using the Venturi Valve, flow metering, and pressure independence to achieve the optimal combination of all three. Learn of first-hand experiences and applications from work done in the mechanical design of the new Nationwide Children’s Hospital tower as well as various other well known projects.

Cheryl Laniewicz, National Accounts Manager – Healthcare, Phoenix Controls
Jeff Ortman, Principle, HAWA Inc.

LED Solid State Lighting — Fact? Fiction? Why Should I Care?

The lighting industry is experiencing a revolution. After spending the previous fifty years re-shaping, re-packaging, and re-using the same old lamp technologies, the industry is now re-inventing itself with the development of LED lighting. For the first time ever, we have the opportunity to use a light source that promises to give us longer life, and higher output, without sacrificing great color or convenient control. So why is it so confusing? What do I look for in an LED light? Should I wait while others try it out first?
This session will answer those questions and more.

David Simpson, Principal, CM Buck & Associates, Inc.

 

November 4, 2010

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
General Session — Ordinary Actions Produce Extraordinary Results
Growing up, most of us had heroes and probably still do. Often heroes are almost larger than life characters in books, film, athletes or public figures. What often attracted us to our heroes was their extraordinary ability to achieve or accomplish something.

Most real heroes are not those who receive vast recognition. In fact, people who have the most profound positive influence and effect on others lives are often unaware of the differences they have made. This presentation will help you discover your own realm of influence and how ordinary actions produce extraordinary results.

Tim Adams, Director, Professional Growth, American Society for Healthcare Engineering

9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Steam System Safety, Operation, and Maintenance Fundamentals

The focus of this presentation is on the importance of safely operating and maintaining a hospital steam system with a strong focus on water hammer, its causes and implications. Basic, but critical pieces, of steam system operation and maintenance; such as water treatment, safety valves, and level controls will also be discussed. The presentation will close with a discussion on steam system efficiency and the importance of steam traps, insulation, and condensate heat recovery.

Mark Vogler, Superintendent of Engineering, Citizens Thermal

Keeping Up with the Wireless World: A Review of DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems)

The demand for mobile and wireless communications continues to grow. This session will explore the open architecture approach of DAS (Distribute Antenna System) to satisfy high data rate wireless data throughout a facility and/or campus. We will explore applications, best practices and review the state of the industry for Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) based on research and consultation with healthcare clients in the Midwest.

Brain Scott, RCDD, Managing Partner, Technology Dynamics

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Integrated Project Delivery from an Engineer’s Perspective

Integrated Project Delivery and Lean Construction offer drastic improvements in project performance, and many sessions have been devoted to extolling those benefits. This session seeks to peel back some of the hype and look at some inner workings of the process. The engineered building systems may have the best potential to benefit from this process, considering that they account for almost half the total construction cost and often present most of the project challenges.

Clay Seckman, Executive Vice President, Smith Seckman Reid
Increasing the Bottom Line through Energy Efficiency
Shane Labuzan, Account Manager, Trane

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Why Take the Outage? Your Standard Transfer Switch May as Well be a Black and White T.V.

Who as a facility manager wouldn't want to eliminate up to 75% of the power outages their facility experiences? This session will inform facility managers about the many different transfer technologies available and how each type can cause their facility to experience more outages than it needs to. Facility managers will understand potential inadequacies of their power system and how you can eliminate those issues.

Phillip Kegerreis, BSEET, Field Sales Engineer, CM Buck & Associates, Inc
Jeff Turner, Head of Electrical Engineering, The Estopinal Group

ASHRAE Session
Standard 170 and the 2010 Guidelines

This session will review the history of healthcare ventilation standards which led to the creation of the ZANSI national standard, ASHRAE/ASHE Standard 170. Standard 170 is incorporated into the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities- 2010 Edition. This session will highlight specific requirements from Standard 170, recent interpretations and addenda.

Peter Langowski, PE, HVAC Design Director, BSA LifeStructures

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Natural Gas Market Outlook

Natural gas prices have a direct impact on the operational budgets of healthcare facilities. This session will cover conditions in the natural gas market and provide insight on natural gas pricing for the remainder of 2010 and beyond. An industry professional will discuss factors such as weather, LNG imports, the impact of shale gas production and proposed carbon legislation.

Susannah Hardesty, Manager of Strategic Analysis, ProLiance Energy

Case Study: Advantages of Energy Efficient Design for a Health Care Facility

The newly opened Norton Healthcare Pediatric Outpatient Care Center including operating rooms, CSR, treatment rooms, radiology, observation rooms and a 24/7 Emergency Department, have been designed and constructed using several energy efficient design strategies. This session will present six months of operational data demonstrating the energy savings of this facility and will compare the operational efficiencies of the Norton Pediatric Outpatient Center to a traditional VAV/boiler/chiller design. We will also address the “first cost” concern by comparing actual construction costs for this facility to a conventionally designed and constructed facility.

Kenneth L Seibert, PE, LEED AP, President, CMTA, Inc.
Douglas R Hundley, Jr., PE, LEED AP, Principal, CMTA, Inc

November 5, 2010

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Pitfalls of Inspection/Testing Programs

Authorities having jurisdiction including The Joint Commission require the inspection/testing of fire and life safety systems. Requirements for the inspection/testing are described in different NFPA standards. This presentation will discuss the top two dozen problems and pitfalls of inspection/testing programs.

Frank Van Overmeiren, President, FP&C Consultants, Inc

Hybrid Video Systems and Making Use of Existing Infrastructure

The use of CCTV cameras for security is a mature technology that many businesses have invested substantial capital funds in. IP video, an emerging technology, that embraces cost efficient horizontal wiring and network infrastructure can bring video information to any PC workstation in the enterprise. Many operations have hesitated to make a change in security video because of the fear that the change has to start with a fork lift conversion. This presentation will detail how existing video security systems can be integrated into the business network providing a seamless, future proof way for all areas of a business to use video as much more than a security tool.

Richard W. Koharik, Manager of Architect and Engineer Support, Vicon Industries.

9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
General Session — Reforming Healthcare Codes and Standards

This session will look at the current efforts underway by ASHE to bring the ICC and NFPA codes and standards back into line with the original goal of providing minimum requirements for building, fire and life safety codes.  The proliferation of excessive code requirements over the past decade are costing healthcare billions of dollars with little or no increase in the safety of our environments.  National projects are underway to attempt to modify this behavior.  These projects and the potential outcomes will be highlighted in the presentation.

Doug Erickson, Deputy Executive Director, American Society for Healthcare Engineering