To promote and develop in the healthcare field:

1. All aspects of design, engineering, and technology, including construction, commissioning, and maintenance of buildings, plant, equipment, machinery and apparatus.

2. The principle of integrated design by improved collaboration amongst all professions.

3. The more efficient management of planning, operation, maintenance and safety.

4. The advancement of education of personnel.

5. The encouragement throughout the world of the unrestricted acquisition, exchanges, and spread of information, and research.

6. The arranging of conferences, seminars and discussions to provide a medium of communication for interested persons on a professional and industrial basis.

7. The evaluation of professional standards and etiquette, and establishment of good relationships between members and other bodies interested in or having objectives similar to those of SAFHE.

8. The encouragement, investigation and publicising of innovations which may be of benefit to members, and assist in the furtherance of the objectives of SAFHE. « less