RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

TECcare has designed two specialist misting systems, ‘ideal’ for terminal cleans, that ‘provide rapid, safe, and effective, total room disinfection at an affordable price’.

Polegate, Sussex-headquartered System Hygienics is a specialist in cleaning ventilation and kitchen extract ductwork.

Medical Gas Services says its ABI (Anti Bacterial Impregnated) cylinder management range – of cylinder cradles and trolleys – has proven ‘very popular’ since its January 2013 launch, and, ‘in celebration’, is offering ‘20 per cent off’ across the whole ABI range for the rest of February.

No matter how efficiently hospital staff implement infection control protocols, identifying the source of an infection can be complex, and ‘take days’.

Following what the organisers, UBM Live, say are ‘high levels of demand for a London energy show’, Energy & Environment Expo (formerly Energy Solutions Expo) will re-launch this year at ExCel London from 17–19 June.

Radiator manufacturer, Stelrad, says its two CPD programmes are now available online. The initial seminar offered to architects explains the technical differences between serial and parallel feed radiators, highlighting how new serial feed technology ‘helps reduce fuel costs and a property’s carbon footprint’.

Dunphy’s new Internet-based, remote energy centre monitoring system, DunphyDelta, reportedly eliminates the need for new software, cabling, USBs, or extra on-site servers.

An 850 kWe CHP system supplied by ENER-G to Salisbury District Hospital, which the cogeneration specialist is also maintaining and servicing, is reducing CO2 emissions at the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust while releasing annual cash savings of over £240,000.

Effective monitoring of power quality and usage in critical medical facilities can reduce costs and avoid availability-of-supply issues caused by socalled ‘dirty’ power systems suffering interference.

Barts Health NHS Trust has chosen Skanska to deliver a waste management programme designed to save money and improve compliance across its estate.

St George’s Hospital, Tooting, is saving £45,000 annually after upgrading the heating and hot water systems in one of its plant rooms to Spirax EasiHeat plate heat exchanger packages.

The heat output of Capstone MicroTurbines can be used to both heat and air condition a healthcare facility via absorption cooling, says Turner EPS, official UK distributor for Capstone Turbine Corporation.

Powertecnique has gained accreditation for five UPS (uninterruptible power supply) units from its eKasar range from the Government’s Energy Technology List (ETL) through the Carbon Trust, meaning customers may claim additional tax relief through enhanced capital allowances when purchasing the equipment.

Trend Control Systems has developed a range of four ‘easy-to-install, and simple-to-use’ sub-meters designed to work with its building energy management systems (BEMS).

ASSA, part of ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions, ‘carefully balanced access and security’ when supplying products for small, gender-specific apartments at Bradley Woodlands Hospital, a 23-bed learning disability facility near Grimsby.

PURICORE’s RapidAER is described by the company as ‘a new concept in AER technology’ and has been designed to ensure reliability. Its small 0.5m2 footprint is ideal for the smallest of rooms and being a totally independent single chamber system it provides total flexibility.

Gent by Honeywell has supplied an aspirating smoke detection system to the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

Designed and built in the UK, C-TEC’s powerful touch-screen controlled ZFP addressable panel is fully compliant with EN54-2/4, and, the company says, ‘represents a major breakthrough in fire alarm technology, with its massive capability and flexible modular design’.

ADT Fire & Security has delivered an ‘intelligent’ fire detection and alarm system as part of a £15 million development of the new Mater Private Hospital in Cork, Ireland.

Hochiki Europe says it has developed a number of technologies that can prevent false fire alarms. Its optical smoke sensors feature its High Performance Chamber Technology, which minimises the differences in sensitivity experienced in flaming and smouldering fires.