Key facts
- Dates
- 3–6 May 2027 (4 days)
- Where
- Seoul, South Korea
- Fee per participant
- £3,000 (GBP)
- Payment
- By invoice and bank transfer
- Registration closes
- 3 Apr 2027
- Who it is for
- Hospital engineering directors and physical plant managers; Infection prevention and control leads and clinical safety officers; Health infrastruct…
- Certificate
- Certificate of completion
- In-house option
- Run it for your team, on your dates
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Programme Overview
Healthcare infrastructure in sub-zero regions faces acute operational stresses that undermine infection prevention and control. When external temperatures plummet, healthcare facilities often seal building envelopes, resulting in reduced air exchange, condensation, and heightened risks of airborne pathogen transmission. This four-day intensive programme in Seoul addresses the complex nexus of structural engineering, clinical containment, and mechanical reliability. Participants study proven methods to maintain rigorous bio-safety standards without compromising thermal efficiency during prolonged periods of extreme cold.
The curriculum centres on the adaptation of international health infrastructure standards to freezing operational contexts. Engineering and clinical leads examine advanced HVAC configurations, negative pressure isolation rooms, and thermal barrier integrity required to prevent systemic freeze-ups. Focusing on primary health centres and multi-speciality referral hospitals, the course investigates how to eliminate thermal bridging, manage moisture migration, and sustain clean air distribution. Participants evaluate practical architectural and building services solutions benchmarked against leading East Asian clinical engineering protocols.
Delivered through a combination of technical analysis, applied design exercises, and operational problem-solving, this course equips professionals to modernise legacy health assets. Participants develop robust, climate-resilient upgrades that align with World Bank and Asian Development Bank environmental and social standards. By bridging the gap between clinical bio-containment directives and cold-climate engineering constraints, the programme ensures that health facilities remain safe, fully operational, and compliant with international infection control frameworks throughout severe continental winters.
Health systems in extreme continental climates face critical operational tests as governments implement modern infection control mandates across aging facilities. Under the US$50.7m COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Project Additional Financing, investments focus on upgrading diagnostic capacity, intensive care units, and clinical bio-containment infrastructure. Without climate-adapted building engineering, sophisticated mechanical ventilation and liquid waste systems suffer catastrophic failures from deep freezing, pipe bursts, and moisture buildup. Upgrading health facilities to withstand severe winters while satisfying modern airborne infection isolation metrics is therefore an immediate priority for infrastructure planners and donor-funded project delivery units.
Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Seoul, South Korea, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.
The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability
- Infection transmission dynamics and containment challenges in sealed winter facilities
- Thermal envelope performance: air barriers, vapour retarders, and mitigation of interstitial condensation
- Zonation principles: separating clean, transitional, and contaminated clinical circulation corridors
- Retrofitting legacy masonry and precast concrete hospital walls to eliminate thermal bridges
- Benchmarking clinical containment layouts against WHO and international bio-safety guidance
- Airborne infection isolation room metrics: balancing air change rates with severe heating loads
- HVAC system design under ASHRAE 170: air intake protection, preheating, and heat recovery ventilators
- Managing pressure cascades: differential pressure monitoring across triage, isolation, and ward zones
- Climate and environmental risk assessment
- Adaptation and mitigation planning
- Sector strategies for energy, water and land
- Project design for climate and environmental goals
It is designed for hospital engineering directors and physical plant managers, infection prevention and control leads and clinical safety officers, health infrastructure project implementation unit engineers and others who want practical, current skills in climate, environment and natural resources.
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The Growing Importance of Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul
Climate change, environmental pressure and resource management now shape national plans, budgets and investment decisions. Financiers increasingly expect climate and environmental considerations to be built into projects from the start.
Institutions that can plan for climate risks, manage natural resources well and prepare sound proposals are better placed to protect services and to access the funding available for this work.
Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:
- Assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets
- Design projects that meet climate and environmental goals
- Prepare proposals that financiers can approve
- Measure and report results credibly
- Work with communities and partners across sectors
Strong climate, environment and natural resources systems help organisations:
- Protect services and infrastructure from climate risks
- Access climate and environmental finance
- Meet national and international commitments
- Use natural resources sustainably
This Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.
Who Should Attend This Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training?
This programme is designed for:
- Hospital engineering directors and physical plant managers
- Infection prevention and control leads and clinical safety officers
- Health infrastructure project implementation unit engineers
- Public works architects designing clinical and diagnostic facilities
- Biomedical waste management coordinators in sub-zero regions
- Procurement officers sourcing hospital HVAC and isolation systems
- Ministry of Health facility planning and maintenance executives
- Technical advisors on World Bank and Asian Development Bank health operations
- District and provincial referral hospital technical superintendents
- Climate change and environment officers
- Energy, water and agriculture sector staff
- Planning and policy officers
The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.
Tick what your team needs to be able to do.
Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training Objectives
Upon successful completion of this Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate clinical building envelope performance under extreme sub-zero exterior temperatures
- Design directional airflow and mechanical ventilation systems meeting ASHRAE Standard 170 in freezing conditions
- Formulate retrofit strategies for negative pressure airborne infection isolation rooms without thermal bridging
- Adapt biomedical wastewater and drainage collection networks to prevent freezing, backflow, and pathogen release
- Develop climate-resilient solid healthcare waste containment and on-site treatment protocols
- Assess healthcare architectural retrofits against WHO infection prevention and control engineering guidelines
- Prepare capital upgrade specifications compliant with multilateral donor technical safeguards and procurement frameworks
- Explain the main climate and environmental challenges for their sector
- Assess climate and environmental risks to services and assets
- Plan adaptation and mitigation measures
Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.
Programme Contents and Structure
- Infection transmission dynamics and containment challenges in sealed winter facilities
- Thermal envelope performance: air barriers, vapour retarders, and mitigation of interstitial condensation
- Zonation principles: separating clean, transitional, and contaminated clinical circulation corridors
- Retrofitting legacy masonry and precast concrete hospital walls to eliminate thermal bridges
- Benchmarking clinical containment layouts against WHO and international bio-safety guidance
- Airborne infection isolation room metrics: balancing air change rates with severe heating loads
- HVAC system design under ASHRAE 170: air intake protection, preheating, and heat recovery ventilators
- Managing pressure cascades: differential pressure monitoring across triage, isolation, and ward zones
- HEPA filtration operational resilience: addressing humidity control, frost formation, and filter loading
- Exhaust air management: stack design, prevailing wind considerations, and plume dispersion in freezing conditions
- Design of insulated, heat-traced clinical plumbing to prevent pathogen-laden drain freezes
- Liquid bio-waste neutralisation and containment prior to municipal discharge in cold regions
- Solid healthcare waste storage: managing low-temperature staging areas, disinfection, and vermin control
- Autoclaving and microwave treatment systems: operational challenges and steam dynamics at low ambient temperatures
- Safe disposal logistics: collection routing, transit containment, and emergency spill response during winter
- Conducting structural and mechanical facility condition assessments in secondary and referral hospitals
- Phased construction scheduling: carrying out bio-containment retrofits in operational winter environments
- Integrating World Bank and ADB environmental and social standards into facility upgrade contracts
- Commissioning, testing, and balancing: verifying negative pressure integrity and smoke clearance
- Developing facility-specific winter maintenance schedules and standard operating procedures
Full day-by-day contents
The programme runs over 4 days. Each day combines expert input, practical work and a closing workshop or case study:
- First Day: Day 1: Bio-Containment Architecture and Building Envelopes in Extreme Climates
- Second Day: Day 2: Advanced HVAC Engineering, Filtration, and Air Exchange in Sub-Zero Weather
- Third Day: Day 3: Cold-Climate Biomedical Waste, Drainage, and Clinical Plumbing
- Fourth Day: Day 4: Facility Retrofitting, Compliance, and Donor Project Implementation
Full day-by-day contents
First Day | Day 1: Bio-Containment Architecture and Building Envelopes in Extreme Climates
- Infection transmission dynamics and containment challenges in sealed winter facilities
- Thermal envelope performance: air barriers, vapour retarders, and mitigation of interstitial condensation
- Zonation principles: separating clean, transitional, and contaminated clinical circulation corridors
- Retrofitting legacy masonry and precast concrete hospital walls to eliminate thermal bridges
- Benchmarking clinical containment layouts against WHO and international bio-safety guidance
Workshop: Day 1: Bio-Containment Architecture and Building Envelopes in Extreme Climates: Applying It to Your Institution
Working in small groups, participants apply the day's methods to examples from their own institutions and agree practical next steps.
Second Day | Day 2: Advanced HVAC Engineering, Filtration, and Air Exchange in Sub-Zero Weather
- Airborne infection isolation room metrics: balancing air change rates with severe heating loads
- HVAC system design under ASHRAE 170: air intake protection, preheating, and heat recovery ventilators
- Managing pressure cascades: differential pressure monitoring across triage, isolation, and ward zones
- HEPA filtration operational resilience: addressing humidity control, frost formation, and filter loading
- Exhaust air management: stack design, prevailing wind considerations, and plume dispersion in freezing conditions
Workshop: Day 2: Advanced HVAC Engineering, Filtration, and Air Exchange in Sub-Zero Weather: Applying It to Your Institution
Working in small groups, participants apply the day's methods to examples from their own institutions and agree practical next steps.
Third Day | Day 3: Cold-Climate Biomedical Waste, Drainage, and Clinical Plumbing
- Design of insulated, heat-traced clinical plumbing to prevent pathogen-laden drain freezes
- Liquid bio-waste neutralisation and containment prior to municipal discharge in cold regions
- Solid healthcare waste storage: managing low-temperature staging areas, disinfection, and vermin control
- Autoclaving and microwave treatment systems: operational challenges and steam dynamics at low ambient temperatures
- Safe disposal logistics: collection routing, transit containment, and emergency spill response during winter
Case Study: Day 3: Cold-Climate Biomedical Waste, Drainage, and Clinical Plumbing in Practice
Participants analyse a realistic case, compare the choices made with good practice and draw lessons they can use in their own setting.
Fourth Day | Day 4: Facility Retrofitting, Compliance, and Donor Project Implementation
- Conducting structural and mechanical facility condition assessments in secondary and referral hospitals
- Phased construction scheduling: carrying out bio-containment retrofits in operational winter environments
- Integrating World Bank and ADB environmental and social standards into facility upgrade contracts
- Commissioning, testing, and balancing: verifying negative pressure integrity and smoke clearance
- Developing facility-specific winter maintenance schedules and standard operating procedures
Capstone Exercise: Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Action Plan for Your Institution
Participants bring the week together in an action plan for their own institution, with priorities, owners and first steps, and present it for feedback from peers and facilitators.
Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training Methodology
The training is conducted through adult learning methodologies suited to senior technical professionals. Participants engage with real engineering drawings, mechanical schematics, and clinical retrofit case studies. Sessions combine interactive technical lectures with practical group workshops where attendees resolve mechanical failure scenarios and draft facility improvement plans. Daily exercises utilise specialised calculation models to size air handling and insulation requirements, culminating in an integrated facility upgrade plan assessed against international health infrastructure criteria.
The programme combines:
- Expert-led sessions on current practice
- Regional and international case studies
- Group work and practical exercises
- Simulations and role plays where relevant
- Discussion of participants' own challenges
- Peer learning across institutions and countries
- Practical tools and templates to take back to work
- Daily reflection and action planning
Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.
Expected Outcomes
Upon completion of this Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training, participants will be able to:
- Deliver structural retrofit specifications that eliminate condensation and pathogen build-up in sealed health facilities
- Formulate ventilation schemes that maintain continuous negative pressure without frozen intake coils or mechanical failure
- Establish compliant, freeze-protected biomedical wastewater and solid waste containment workflows
- Execute systematic infection prevention infrastructure audits across primary and tertiary healthcare sites
- Produce procurement-ready technical requirements aligned with international development bank project guidelines
- Implement operational continuity and preventative maintenance protocols for clinical services during severe sub-zero periods
- Assess climate and environmental risks
- Plan adaptation and mitigation measures
Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.
£3,000 per participant · invoice and bank transfer · groups of 5 or more receive a discount
Five or more from one organisation: ask for the group rate on the invoice request.
Ten or more: an in-house version for your institution may cost less per person. Ask for an in-house quote.
Registration closes in 146 days (3 Apr 2027)
Institutional Application of Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training
This programme supports organisations in strengthening:
- Climate and environmental planning
- Project design
- Access to finance
- Results measurement
- Stakeholder involvement
Participants return with practical tools to improve:
- Risk assessments
- Concept notes
- Results frameworks
- Monitoring systems
- Partnership arrangements
The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.
Regional Relevance & Application
Europe
European institutions apply climate, environment and natural resources within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.
Africa
Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in climate, environment and natural resources increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.
Middle East
In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on climate, environment and natural resources. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.
Asia
Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.
Pacific
Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to climate, environment and natural resources that suit smaller institutions.
Holding the programme in Seoul, South Korea brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how climate, environment and natural resources is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.
Host Country Profile – South Korea
Programmes, Workshops, Exposures, Training Courses in Seoul, South Korea by Risalat Consultants International
Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.
Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training Deliverables
Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.
Before the Programme
- Participant Pre-Assessment
- Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Readiness Assessment
- Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Resource Pack
- Preparatory Reading Materials
- Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory
During the Programme
- Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
- Accommodation with Breakfast
- Welcome Networking Dinner
- Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
- Comprehensive Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul Training Manual
- Climate Risk Screening Checklist
- Options Appraisal Template
- Concept Note Template
- Results Measurement Template
- Practical Workshops & Simulations
- Group Discussions & Peer Learning
- Daily Lunch and Refreshments
- Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
- Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
- Field Visit (where applicable)
- Entertaining City Tour
After the Programme
- Certificate of Completion
- Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
- Post-Training Reference Materials
- Funding Readiness Checklist
- Monitoring and Reporting Template
- Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
- Programme Report
Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.
Common Challenges in Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul, And How This Training Helps
How can institutions assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets?
The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Bio-Containment Architecture and Building Envelopes in Extreme Climates), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions design projects that meet climate and environmental goals?
The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Day 2: Advanced HVAC Engineering, Filtration, and Air Exchange in Sub-Zero Weather), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions prepare proposals that financiers can approve?
The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Day 3: Cold-Climate Biomedical Waste, Drainage, and Clinical Plumbing), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions measure and report results credibly?
The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Day 4: Facility Retrofitting, Compliance, and Donor Project Implementation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions work with communities and partners across sectors?
The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Bio-Containment Architecture and Building Envelopes in Extreme Climates), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
When and where does the Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul programme take place?
It runs from 3 May 2027 to 6 May 2027, in Seoul, South Korea. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.
Who should attend?
The programme is designed for hospital engineering directors and physical plant managers, infection prevention and control leads and clinical safety officers, health infrastructure project implementation unit engineers, public works architects designing clinical and diagnostic facilities, and others who want practical skills in climate, environment and natural resources.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.
Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?
Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.
Do I need prior experience in climate, environment and natural resources?
No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.
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Why Seoul for this programme
Seoul is a leader in e-government and e-procurement, ideal for digital transformation study visits.
The Infection Prevention and Healthcare Facility Upgrading in Cold Climates in Seoul programme in May 2027 brings together officials and professionals from across the Asia region and beyond. Sessions combine short inputs, case studies and group work on participants' own files, and the city's institutions can be added as a study visit on request.
Getting there: Incheon (ICN).
Check whether you need a visa with the free Visa Checker, and ask for an invitation letter once you are registered.
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