RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

ABEC says its new Focus Energy ‘package’ takes a fresh approach to standard BEMS planned maintenance ‘using a combination of remote and on-site control of building management systems’.

A recently opened, ‘newly revamped’ £3.1 m energy centre at Cheltenham General Hospital designed and installed by Vital Energi, which will operate and maintain it under a guaranteed Energy Performance Contract for the next 18 years, will save Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over £10 million, and reduce carbon emissions by over 32,000 tonnes over the contact term.

Recognising the need to reduce its lighting energy spend and maintain good illumination in its external car parking areas, Spire Healthcare invited Future Energy Solutions (FES) to undertake a comprehensive feasibility study to scope the objectives and determine the optimal LED lighting and commercial solution.

Finning Power Systems (Finning) is to deliver the new 11 kV emergency electrical services standby generator system for Guy’s Hospital in London.

The Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives for water heaters and hot water storage tanks come into force on September 26 this year, and will ensure that only the most efficient water heaters are being manufactured, specified, sold, and installed, says Jonathan Tedstone, category manager for Andrews Water Heaters (pictured).

A Trend 963 Supervisor graphical user interface that brings together information from any one of the Trust’s 32 locations is helping London’s Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust quickly identify and qualify any problems before dispatching an engineer – via the ability to monitor, in real time, the operation of building engineering services plant.

Medical facilities are under increased pressure to ensure availability of critical systems, and protect their electrical infrastructure, while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. According to Bender UK, ‘the impact of complex system interactions such as flicker, transients, and harmonic components, is felt in the form of faults, failures and, in the worst case, irreparable damage to equipment and systems’.

A new White Paper from Spirax Sarco is designed to ‘show how hospitals and healthcare institutions can improve the energy efficiency of their steam systems, reduce risk, and cut emissions in order to help meet NHS targets’.

Bristan has launched a ‘fully comprehensive, easy-to-maintain’ Approved ‘DocM’ WC pack, complete with TMV 3 basin mixer taps, suitable for commercial washroom facilities designed for people with disabilities.

L8guard is a ‘cost-effective and simple to-use’ software system specifically designed to solve the problems of low use water outlet flushing across large and changing estates – typically NHS Trusts, local authorities, and universities.

A new thermostatic mixing valve range that ‘greatly simplifies valve selection, while simultaneously enhancing performance’, has been unveiled by Pegler Yorkshire. ‘Traditionally’, the company has manufactured anti-scald valves for the healthcare market (Type 3) and separate valves for general and domestic applications (Type 2). The new, ‘more compact’, Pegler PEG402 valves meet the requirements of BS and EN standards, are WRAS approved, and boast the BuildCert certificate for both TMV3 and TMV2 schemes.

Keraflo, manufacturer of ‘Aylesbury’ float valves and tank management systems, has launched an enhanced version of its digital water tank control system, Tanktronic.

Legipid is a ‘unique’ Legionella test developed by Biotica, and exclusively distributed by Veras Europe, that has been fully validated by the international standards agency, AOAC, against ISO 11731, and which is said to be suitable for both high volume laboratory use, and ‘for single tests in the field’.

Delabie’s new TMV3-approved point-ofuse thermostatic mixing valve, the Premix NANO, has a compact design ‘ideal for under basin installation to deliver safe, mixed water for one or two basin taps, or to supply one shower’.

P4 says its new SatiLED patented, satellite self-test luminaire, was developed from a request by a client with specific emergency lighting requirements, as ‘a unique, remarkably ingenious, costeffective emergency luminaire’. P4 says it is ‘committed to helping to minimise the energy consumption of its products’, and to reducing the capital cost of installations, ‘harnessing the benefits of high-efficiency LEDs’.

Around 7,000 Aico Firecap socket / switch inserts are being installed at the new Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington – part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s £200 m investment to improve healthcare for people in Northumberland and North Tyneside – to maintain the fire integrity of wall partitions where holes for wall sockets have been cut.

Wherever hygiene is intrinsic to daily routines, most contract cleaners and their staff rely upon harsh chemicals and old-fashioned methods like manual scrubbing and scraping.

Keraflo, manufacturer of ‘Aylesbury’ float valves and tank management systems, has launched an enhanced user-friendly version of its digital water tank control system Tanktronic, which boasts an array of new functionality.

Although, it says, ‘stylish and safe’ is ‘not a combination of words often used when discussing building materials’, specialist manufacturer of anti-ligature products, Intastop, believes it has successfully combined ‘both luxurious, high quality style’ and ‘a variety of highly effective safeguards’ within its new range of handrails.

Hygienic touchscreen operating theatre control panels from Bender UK offer the ultimate flexibility in terms of features and functionality for new and refurbishment installations within the healthcare sector.