RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Elliott has won the contract for a £5 m, 108-bed staff accommodation block at Peterborough City Hospital.

Construction Specialties (UK) is to supply and install a wall protection ‘package’ for Sweden’s New Karolinska Solna (NKS) Hospital in Stockholm.

Saint-Gobain Ecophon’s Soundlight Comfort range – ‘the latest innovation in noise and lighting solutions’ – is the result of a close partnership between acoustic ceiling manufacturer, Ecophon, and ‘expert’ in LED lighting, Philips.

Shackerley says its new cladding brochure reveals ‘a massively extended Sureclad Ceramic Granite Collection to meet every possible aesthetic requirement’.

Marley Eternit is expanding its Thrutone fibre cement slate range with five new colours, suitable for use on roof pitches as low as 15°, and three new shapes.

Panel Systems, a laminated panel supplier, has released a new brochure for its Styroclad eco – an ‘extremely lightweight and environmentallyfriendly’, weather-resistant panel designed to insulate an upstand or parapet in roofing applications, helping to reduce cold bridging.

Johnstone’s new Flame Defence System flame-retardant paints have been specifically formulated to inhibit and slow the surface spread of flame. They have been launched to help simplify specifying paint for redecoration over existing paint coatings.

Demolishing a Victorian hospital and designing a £32 million health centre in its place would appear to present the architect with a blank canvas.

Eastwood Park’s new training calendar for 2014-2015 includes three new City & Guilds nationally-recognised qualifications to assist staff development for those working in the area of decontamination.

Whitecroft Lighting says its DTFN/A lighting system ‘offers all the features to satisfy the infection control requirements of theatres and sterile recovery areas, where IP65/54 luminaires are required throughout’.

Starkstrom says its S-equiP product range is ‘packed full of infection-fighting innovations’, to ensure operating rooms or critical care areas remain a ‘bacteria and virusunfriendly’ zone..

Haigh says its specialist macerator range works with all leading pulp suppliers, and addresses key potential user challenges, such as space constraints, energy consumption, speed, and reliability.

Howorth’s Biotechnology division was established ‘to service ever-increasing demand for effective, safe, state-of-the-art vapour-phase fumigation systems, whether to control healthcareassociated infections, or eradicate microorganisms’.

A study at a South of England hospital commissioned by low surface temperature (LST) radiator guard specialist, Contour Casings, has compared the levels and diversity of bacteria present on modern LST radiator covers with full access for cleaning, and an antimicrobial coating, with those on a ‘traditional’ fixed unit, with no internal access, and no antimicrobial protection.

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’.