FEATURE ARTICLES

HEJ reports on the ongoing £485 m scheme to redevelop and replace key buildings at Brighton’s historic Royal Sussex County Hospital – one of the largest Treasury-funded NHS projects in recent years.

The Institute of Occupational Medicine highlights the integral role that hospital ventilation plays in maintaining high standards of patient care, and discusses some of the key steps to take to ensure that such systems are efficiently maintained.

A leading provider of mobile healthcare facilities explains how, with the NHS facing major under-capacity issues, such units can help to ease bed and clinical pressures.

How NHS estates teams are developing, and can benefit from, BIM, and how NEC3 contracts, and the new ProCure 22 Framework, enable the collaboration required for BIM to succeed.

Our third article on the role and remit of Authorising Engineers focuses on the key responsibilities of the AE (MGPS), some of the challenges for such personnel in healthcare settings, the need for competence and suitable experience, and the process for registration.

Medical engineering company, Avensys UK, is launching a new combined maintenance and training service ‘for all brands, models, and ages, of endoscope’.

A leading car parking provider explains how it has extended its accompanying focus on security management to encompass accredited security training for its own and others’ staff.

A report on the design, construction, and building services engineering for London’s striking new Francis Crick Institute building, the new home to some of the world’s top scientists undertaking biomedical research in the fight against illnesses such as cancer and heart disease.

A specialist supplier focuses on the issues surrounding the commissioning, auditing, maintenance, and operation of medical gas pipeline systems, and explains the key steps to take to ensure a safe, reliable supply.

A recent NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alert has warned healthcare providers of the dangers of patients being accidentally administered with medical air instead of oxygen.

The second in our series of articles on the work of IHEEM’s AE Registers and Authorising Engineers focuses on the vital part played by the AE (W) in keeping healthcare facilities’ water systems safe and compliant.

Our second ‘IFHE’ article this month looks at the challenges of an emergency power generation equipment renewal project at full-service, 1,100 patient-bed hospital in Toronto.

In the November 2016 HEJ, Greg Truscott, BArch DipMgt MIHEA, manager, Infrastructure & New Works, Royal Perth Hospital, Bentley Health Service & Armadale Health Service, in Western Australia, discussed a project he has led at the hospital to improve the facility’s wayfinding and signage.

Mervyn Phipps, an IHEEM-registered Authorising Engineer (Water) and water hygiene trainer at Eastwood Park, examines the guidance in the new HTM 04-01, Safe Water in Healthcare Premises (2016), published last year.

Wandsworth Healthcare believes technological advances and the growing ability to integrate software and services across medical systems will become ever more vital in improving care and operational efficiency.

Horne Engineering explains how its In-Line Thermal Disinfection Unit – just launched – will reduce the incidence and risk of pathogenic colonisation of water systems.

A global floor coverings manufacturer, with a new £17 m factory in the Netherlands, discusses how the optimal flooring can create a healthy, hygienic, and comfortable patient recovery environment.

A recent Royal Academy of Engineering report presents ‘evidence-based’ advice to the Government on the opportunities and risks for the engineering sector ‘post-Brexit’.

ISG’s Engineering Services business discusses the recent extension to Spire St Anthony’s Hospital in Cheam, and how BIM was used to help plan the most heavily serviced areas during construction.

Glenn Foot, technical manager at Eaton, examines some of the key security issues for healthcare estates and facilities managers, and how some of the latest IP, access control, and messaging technologies are helping them tackle them.