RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Against a backdrop where ‘the feelgood factor is growing in importance both in healthcare and education facilities’, and with a trend towards the use of more authentic materials, nora systems’ new noraplan valua rubber flooring ‘combines warm colours and natural surface structure’.

To ‘break away from the utilitarian designs typically associated with contract safety flooring’, Gerflor has ‘coupled its technical expertise with excellence in designing’ in creating its latest safety flooring innovation, Taralay Impression Control.

Four designs and eight colourways from Forbo Flooring Systems’ Marmoleum floor collection have created a durable, design-led, resilient surface flooring solution for NHS Tayside’s new CAMHS unit in Dundee.

Reportedly ideally suited to a range of applications in healthcare buildings, Sika’s ‘seamless’ ComfortFloor range of resin flooring is said to offer ‘true quality, durability, and versatility’ as an ‘attractive alternative’ to traditional vinyl flooring, carpet, or timber.

Against a backdrop of a potential £30 bn shortfall in NHS funding by 2020/ 2021, long-term value, durability, and flexibility, are paramount when specifying products for refurbishment.

Danfloor says its Economix carpet combines ‘advanced performance features’ including Maedical i-Link – the company’s anti-microbial coating, a soil and stain-resistant yarn, and an impervious membrane, with ‘the latest trend colours’, ensuring ‘a flooring solution that is fit for the demands of the healthcare sector, while also facilitating the creation of stunning interior design schemes’.

Eighteen months ago, Whittington Health, which provides general hospital and community services to 500,000 people in north London, opened a new £3m Ambulatory Care Centre and a Rapid Assessment Unit.

Decorative Polysafe safety floor from UK vinyl manufacturer, Polyflor, was installed at Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s new Jigsaw Building – now the location of the hospital’s Oncology, Haematology, and Women’s Health departments.

Estates managers responsible for ensuring that healthcare centres comply with current fire safety regulations can now have a centralised view of all incidents – including unwanted alarms – and the status of all fire detection and alarm systems, even across multi-location sites.

DORMA is encouraging anyone responsible for specifying or installing fire doors to ensure that all individual elements of the doorset have been third party accredited and certified.

BAFE, the not-for-profit third party certification registration body for the fire industry, recently hosted a fire safety reception at the Scottish Parliament to highlight continued efforts to improve quality in fire safety through third party certification.

C-TEC’s ‘unique’ BF366 keyswitch isolatable relay is at the heart of the life-safety systems at an imposing new care facility in Oslo, Norway.

Following the launch of its original Manual Call Point in 2013, Apollo Fire Detectors has developed a version which will support its new SOTERIA range of detectors.

A Salamander radio-controlled fire door safety system that connects wirelessly to a controller wired into the existing fire alarm system has been successfully installed at the Emmaus Trust Care Home in Cumbria to legally hold open fire doors, closing them in the event of a fire emergency to protect residents and staff.

As part of a £1.6 million fire safety project, Hochiki Europe has been chosen by Masterfire Life Safety Systems to provide a complete life safety solution to protect the Sligo Regional Hospital.

With hygiene a top priority, the design team at Rotterdam’s Maasstad Hospital worked with Wavin to minimise the risk of waterborne bacteria when specifying a high performance hot and cold water system for the facility.

Inadequate maintenance of washrooms can result in downtime and potentially increased labour costs, but the consequences, especially in healthcare, can be considerably more serious for end-users, with scalding and the spread of infection both presenting potentially life-threatening risks.

High purity water specialist, Veolia Water Technologies, has installed laboratory water purification systems at the National Institute for Health Research’s National Biosample Centre in Milton Keynes.

A Public Health England (PHE) guidance document issued last year, Responding to the detection of legionella in healthcare premises – Guidance for PHE health protection teams (HPTs), ‘raises numerous questions about current levels of communication that Trusts have inhouse, and with HPTs, on positive Legionella sample results and what they mean’.

Ponte Giulio claims that when it comes to exceeding stringent hygiene standards, outperforming water and energy-saving requirements, and ensuring safety against vandalism, the iqua ultra series taps, available in the UK exclusively through the company, ‘have no rivals’.