9.00 Welcoming Remarks from the Conference Chair

9.10 Retrofitting for Energy Efficiency: Carbon Footprinting to Measure Performance of your Facility

• Minimising your facilities energy consumption and carbon footprint
• Developing an effective roadmap towards achieving energy efficiency
• Realising the importance of monitoring, analysing and documenting your buildings performance including cost savings
• Identifying and adopting the right techniques to achieve your required outcomes with a review of current and future technology

9.50 Fast Track Retrofitting: Converting a Commercial Office into a Hospital This case study will look at the first hospital from Health Bridge which was a 4 storey office block converted into a fully functional specialist mothers and children’s unit. The project was completed within very tight timeframes with a future proofed design that will allow development of a further 2 storeys.

• Detailed overview of the project at planning, development and post build
• Overcoming particularly problematic height restrictions to meet industry requirements
• Understanding how the communication plan enables delivery within tight deadlines
• Effectively forward planning to accommodate future development: Flexible design
• Highlights and learning outcomes

Marion Place
Director
HEALTH SCIENCE PLANNING CONSULTANTS

10.30 Establishing a Clear Communication Channel for Managing User Groups: Prior, During and Post Retrofit

• Mapping out all internal and external user groups
• Pre-empting predicted challenges and eradicating future project issues
• Devising a clear management plan for the entire lifecycle of the project
• Ensuring clear lines of communication across all design, project, delivery teams as well as end users
• Addressing the importance of effective handovers and establishing long term relationships

Lynne Donohoe
Project Coordinator
ST VINCENTS PRIVATE HOSPITAL

11.10 Retrofitting lighting for energy efficiency

• The future of energy efficient lighting
• LED lighting in the Hospital environment- the opportunities and dangers
• A case study in lighting retrofit – 93% energy saving

David Whitfield
CEO
ENLIGHTEN

12.00 Alfred ICU Upgrade Project

• Fostering staff and patient wellbeing through effective consultation
• Overcoming issues relating to poor maintenance access, infection, air quality, hospital disruption and unstable temperature control
• Managing hospital – acquired infection through effective design and management features
• Utilising 3D modelling to enhance communication and minimise disruption
• Improving operation through increased flexibility, safer maintenance access and increased resilience
• Lessons learned and conclusions

Alexander Ramos
Project Manager
ARUP

12.40 Retrofitting Internal Environments to Improve Healthcare Outcomes for Patients and Staff

• Understanding the physical and psychological needs of staff, patients and visitors: Centring design to support these outcomes
• Ensuring staff satisfaction through internal environments: Enhancing employee productivity and general well being
• Identifying the key components of improved healthcare environments
• Quantifying the operational benefits and operational cost savings by pursuing enhanced retrofit internal environment

Robert Puksand
Partner Architect
GRAY PUKSAND

2.20 Opportunities and Barriers to the Sustainable Refurbishment of Health Care Facilities

• Compelling reasons for the sustainable refurbishment of health care facilities
• Analysing the opportunities and overcoming the barriers
• Setting targets and benchmarking
• Planning your sustainable refurbishment
• Case studies and lessons learnt
• Adopting a “soft landings approach” to optimise building performance

Jeff Robinson
Sustainable Buildings Leader
AURECON

3.00 Future Proofing Health Facilities: Flexible Design Approaches to Accommodate Future Retrofitting Projects

• Understanding why flexibility is important
• Analysing and maximising existing infrastructure to establish retrofitting needs
• Minimising major changes through retaining useful and functional elements
• Understanding incremental stages of facility development and incorporating into initial design
• Working collaboratively with all stakeholders to future proof across all existing and future departments
• Outlining the lessons to be learned from other sectors
• Evaluating historical lessons relating to workplace design

John Miller
Principal
HASSELL

4.10 Retrofitting Health Facilities to Accommodate ICT Infrastructure

IT in the healthcare sector is growing at a substantial rate and with it brings technical challenges especially with retrofitting to accommodate ICT infrastructure

John McGuire
Global Healthcare Director
AECOM

4.50 Enhancing the Environmental Performance of Healthcare Facilities

• Improving existing facades: solar and thermal comfort and performance and enhancing daylight control
• Ensuring inherent qualities of existing buildings are captured
• Optimisation of existing heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems
• Enhancing the water efficiency of existing hydraulic services
• Improved on-going environmental performance through education, tenant engagement and organisational change

Caimin McCabe
Director
CUNDALL

5.30 Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of the Conference