FEATURE ARTICLES

A property protection specialist explains how healthcare estates managers can keep disused buildings safe and secure in a novel way using ‘live-in’ security.

With the NHS under considerable pressure to cut its carbon footprint, reduce emissions, and lower its energy costs, a specialist in the field explains the contribution CHP systems can make.

How to get the most out of biomass technology, and maximise returns in the long term.

Some of the key priorities for estates teams managing older healthcare estates to ensure that buildings and plant are maintained in a safe, serviceable, and fit-for-purpose condition.

A report on a £35m project to create what the Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust says will be ‘a new, world-class urgent care and trauma centre’.

The special requirements and criteria for designing lighting systems suitable for use in ultraclean operating theatres explained.

At a London conference, Department of Health and Trust speakers described the progress to date with the work to embed GS1 standards throughout the NHS.

A recent IHEEM seminar on the subject saw speakers look at Building Information Modelling’s key benefits, the potential pitfalls, and the priorities for implementation.

How a safe, efficient, and hygienic system for disposing of human waste in hospitals and other healthcare facilities can play a key role in maintaining an infection-free environment.

An examination by Eastwood Park of the benefits of work-based learning. The training establishment says work-based degree students can act as ‘the subtle drivers of positive change’.

The use of a web-based software system at St George’s Hospital in south London has seen a marked increase in compliance with the hospital’s low-use water outlet flushing regime.

A detailed focus on the need to take all necessary steps to protect patients against electrical hazard and shock while they are being treated or operated on in healthcare premises.

A specialist in the field explains the sophisticated features of its latest lone worker protection and critical messaging systems, a number of them reportedly ‘unique’ in the sector.

Prior to the start of the Hospital Innovations 2016 event in London, an IHEEM ‘CEOs’ Breakfast Briefing’ saw senior personnel discuss and debate some of the key issues of the day.

Thomas Heine, sales and market manager for EC Upgrades, the retrofit arm of global provider of air movement solutions, ebm-papst A&NZ, discusses the retrofitting of high-efficiency fans to existing HVAC equipment to ‘drastically reduce energy consumption’.

A global specialist in door opening solutions considers some of the key security issues within healthcare facilities, and how access control and mechanical technologies are tackling them.

A look at the complex building services design for a new ward building at a specialist facility in Leamington Spa which treats neurological conditions caused by acquired brain injuries.

A report on a recent study by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham into dismantlable and demountable thermostatic mixing taps – part of a quest to find the optimal ‘safe’ tap design.

The key design, construction, and installation challenges – including the lifting in of six 10-tonne ‘linacs’ – in building a new second floor cancer centre at London’s Guy’s Hospital, described.

Mike Elver, Healthcare Sector account manager at Andrews Sykes Hire, discusses the importance of ensuring that healthcare estates are well prepared for the summer heat.