RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

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.

A new register of qualified fire door installers is to be built as part of the legacy of last September’s ‘highly successful, cross-industry’ Fire Door Safety Week campaign by the British Woodworking Federation (BWF), BWF-CERTIFIRE Scheme, and Fire Door Inspector Scheme.

Fire Detectors’ Discovery fire products are providing life and property protection at the ‘new’ Royal London Hospital. The main contractor on the £1.1 billion PFI project, Skanska, selected Static Systems Group to design, supply, and install, the hospital’s highly complex fire system.

Sanco UK, an independent, Herefordshire-based call system provider that provides and supports call systems nationwide, says it can service and repair many different nurse call systems and handsets, and is a strong believer in ‘never throwing anything away’.

Fusion-IP Aspire, a new radio-based nurse call system from Static Systems Group (SSG), is fully compatible with other Static Systems equipment, and adds a wireless option to the evergrowing Fusion-IP range of nurse call solutions.

Wandsworth Group has installed its IPiN Ethernet-based nurse call system into a live environment within the Cardiac Ward, Accident & Emergency Unit, and Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) of South Tyneside District Hospital as part of a rolling upgrade.

Aid Call says wireless nurse call systems such as those it supplies ‘provide all the functionality and reliability of a hard-wired system, but with greater flexibility, and more powerful features and functionality’.