FEATURE ARTICLES

IHEEM and NAHFO (the National Association of Healthcare Fire Officers) recently jointly held seminars in London and Bristol looking at key fire safety issues relevant to healthcare estates personnel. The Institute’s events and marketing manager, Craig Willcock, reports.

Engineering and facilities service business, NG Bailey, discusses its part in a major redevelopment at one of the UK’s most famous orthopaedic hospitals.

A focus on how increasingly comprehensive data will aid the design and construction of healthcare buildings that perform ever more efficiently in the future.

A look at the key steps to guard building energy management systems against ‘cyber-attack’.

Choosing training that ensures that engineers are meeting standards and gaining competences to operate safely and effectively.

A report on some of the benefits of low temperature sterilisation of ‘hi-tech’ medical devices.

An expert explains how to effectively test medical gas systems for mobile healthcare units.

A summary of the key findings of Lord Carter’s ‘final’ report into the ‘productivity and efficiency’ of English acute NHS Trusts.

The quality of the care environment within a new 16-bedded modular-built acute assessment unit at Hereford County Hospital has won widespread praise.

A look at the benefits – especially for SMEs – of Dynamic Purchasing Systems – electronic systems used by a public bodies to purchase commonly used goods, works, or services.

How an off-site construction system enabled the completion of a specialist eye clinic at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield in just 32 weeks.

A look at a north-east England NHS Trust’s installation of a fully enclosed decontamination room system and its benefits.

In an article first published in The Australian Hospital Engineer, the chief engineer at a hospital in north-east Victoria describes the challenges of installing a new main switchboard.

How technologies such as Wi-Fi, GPS, RFID, and Bluetooth LE are enhancing wayfinding in healthcare facilities.

An IHEEM seminar at Westminster considered topics ranging from differences in the way healthcare and education estates are run, to potential money-saving opportunities following water privatisation in 2017

An informed look at the challenges around fire safety in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

A highly experienced medical gas specialist discusses equipping mobile units with medical gas systems.

How a new testing method is allowing facility managers to detect Pseudomonas in hospital water more quickly, and to deal with consequent contamination more effectively.

A Legionella Control Association ‘open day’ included a high-level overview of emerging rapid microbiology techniques designed to help identify hazardous waterborne bacteria – fast.

A report on a conference on ‘water microbiology – current and emerging issues in healthcare’, which considered how well recent legislation and guidance had been working for those ‘at the frontline of infection control’.