Steve Rees (pictured), a former Vice-President and President of CHES (The Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society), who has worked in healthcare facilities management for 33 years, and is currently Vice-President of Capital Management, Edmonton Zone for Alberta Health Services, received CHES’s 2012 Hans Burgers Award ‘for outstanding contributions to healthcare engineering’.
A Certified Facility Manager, who holds three trade certificates, and a graduate of the University of Alberta’s Construction Administration Program, he has made ‘substantial contributions to healthcare engineering’ in Canada, and is well-known and respected within the communities of healthcare engineering, the Canadian Standards Association, Alberta Health Services, and many other associations. CHES’s President from 2005-7, and a member of the IFHE Executive Committee 2012-14, he was instrumental in moving CHES forward with such initiatives as the Hans Burgers and Wayne McLellan Awards, and has also participated in the development of several important healthcare engineering CSA Standards. In more recent years, he has particularly assisted CHES through his continued leadership in the field of benchmarking in healthcare facilities management.
