Rod Sprenger

Director – Digital Health, New Women’s and Children’s Hospital Project Women’s and Children’s Health Network (SA Health)

Health Facilities Design & Development (PAID) Day Two: Thursday, 21 March 2024

9:15 AM Unpacking The Challenges With Feasibility, Design & Maintenance of Environmentally Sustainable Health Facilities

This think-tank will unpack challenges, emerging perspectives and considerations around the tension that often exists from a planning and decision perspective with prioritizing environmentally sustainable investments without impacting the care services and patient experience vision for new expansions and developments.

  • Building a viable business case and payback models for environmentally sustainable facility investments
  • Trade-offs between sustainability investments and patient experience/services – implications to design and planning of facilities
  • Understanding the resourcing demands with managing and maintaining electrified health facilities 
  • Finding creative solutions to manage rising procurement costs without impacting facility plans, asset longevity and vision

11:00 AM Case Study: Integrating Mechanical, Electrical Hydraulic Engineering Through Converged Digital Architecture That Powers Sustainable and Proactive Hospital Operations

  • Why ICT is synonymous with environmental sustainability objectives of a modern, digital hospital
  • Enabling IT/OT Convergence – challenges faced and solutions developed
  • Unpacking the decisions and considerations underpinning the business case for a future-focused, integrated energy 

management solution

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Rod.

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