RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Rubber flooring from nora systems that won both a Building Better Healthcare Award 2014 and an Architects’ Journal Award the same year – and selected in this instance particularly for its high durability and hygienic properties – has been installed in the new Wokingham Medical Centre.

David Bailey Furniture Systems has introduced a new mobile writing desk – which can be used by nurses and other hospital ward staff to take notes at patients’ bedsides – to its popular Healthline range of fitted healthcare furniture.

Polyflor safety flooring has helped create beautiful, homely interiors for the Winchcombe Place care home in Newbury.

Baxi-SenerTec says specifiers ‘under increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions’ are being given ‘a new roadmap’ for generating their own electricity, as the CHP specialist unveils a new offering developed in partnership with a major automotive manufacturer.

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has officially opened its new CHP energy centre at York Hospital with a ribbon cutting by its chief executive, Patrick Crowley (pictured, right), who was then presented with a plaque by Ian Whitelock (left), Vital Energi’s joint MD.

ENER-G has released its annual carbon reduction report, which shows that in 2014 its combined heat and power (CHP) customers reduced their carbon footprint by a total of 371,578 tonnes.

Capstone MicroTurbine CHP and CCHP solutions are said by UK distributor, Turner EPS, to “reduce energy costs, ensure power availability, and help preserve the environment with their ‘near-zero’ emissions profile”.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust selected KiWi Power in 2012 as its demand response (DR) partner for the Lister Hospital, Stevenage.

Derriford Hospital in Plymouth is ready to save over £228,000 a year on its energy bills thanks to British Gas’s installation of a new CHP unit, the energy supplier says.

Technal has launched what is says is its most innovative window system yet, ‘bringing a host of technical advancements and modern, intelligent design to enhance almost any fenestration project’.

With Building Information Modelling (BIM) an increasingly important aspect of the planning and implementation of construction projects, the Rockpanel Group now provides BIM data files for the full range of its sustainable façade panels.

Due to the ever-increasing demand for hospital accommodation, innovative and alternative construction methods are fast becoming a preferred solution – due to the speed at which they be completed.

Saint-Gobain will not only celebrate its 350th anniversary at this month’s Ecobuild 2015 event (being held at ExCel London from 3-5 March), but will also launch its ‘Multi-Comfort’ concept.

British Gypsum says it is ‘raising the standard’ in commercial acoustic ceilings for healthcare settings with the launch of a new range of high-performance ceiling tiles.

Divisions – a movable wall specialist – has introduced ‘an innovative movable wall solution’ at the New South Glasgow Hospital Campus’s Teaching and Learning Facility.

Wernick Buildings’ ability to deliver a new critical decision unit – where patients can initially be cared for while assessed to determine where in the hospital they should be treated – in lightning-fast time, recently saw the company win the tender for such a building at the Princess Royal University Hospital near Orpington in Kent.

Eastwood Park has released its latest training calendar, with details of its specialist healthcare engineering and estates and facilities management courses for 2015-2016

As part of the Trust’s drive to give the service training opportunities in Trust premises so that fire and rescue personnel understand how a large acute hospital will manage a fire incident, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has recently been undertaking exercises with West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS) – one of the goals being to evaluate whether established operational fire procedures used in other buildings would be effective in hospitals.

Immerse Training describes itself as ‘a new and forward-looking, dynamic training company established and run by experts in the water treatment field’.

The Fire Protection Association (FPA) says it offers ‘a range of highly practical and vocationally relevant courses to suit those with a responsibility for fire safety in healthcare premises’.