RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Dale Power Solutions says its Short Term Operating Reserve (STOR) programme creates two potential revenue streams from a customer organisation’s standby generating capacity, while reducing its carbon footprint, and saving it energy.

E.ON has begun working with Newham University Hospital in East London to improve the Hospital’s energy efficiency and reduce its carbon emissions.

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust will reportedly gain at least £800,000 over the next 20 years – through a combination of Feed-In-Tariff revenue and lower electricity bills – following the installation, by Photon Energy, of solar panels from Conergy to the roofs of a number of its control centres.

GE (which will provide commercial and technical support) has co-launched, with Clarke Energy, (installer of 770 CHP engines in the UK to date), fund manager SDCL EE (principal fund manager for the Green Investment Bank), and the NHS Confederation, a new funding scheme.

The laundry at Noble’s Hospital on the Isle of Man is saving over £14,500 annually in energy, water, and treatment chemicals, following the installation of a Spirax Sarco FREME (Flash Recovery Energy Management Equipment) system.

Hospital technology and wiring accessories specialist, The Wandsworth Group, has launched a range of blue sockets to comply with NHS Medical Electrical Installation Guidance Notes (MEIGaN).

ELGA Process Water has introduced a new monitoring tool to help in microbiological control of water systems. ‘Bactiquant-water’ is a simple-to-operate test system that gives a rapid indication of total viable bacteria count – a test which normally takes two or three days – in under an hour.

Premier Interlink (Waco UK) has recently completed a £1.5 contract for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in Stanmore, Middlesex, involving the construction of a new 13-bay Paediatric High Dependency Unit which interfaces efficiently with two adjacent buildings and infrastructure as a standalone facility, and incorporates all the amenities required to function efficiently and independently.

Bender UK says its new Linetraxx power quality monitoring (PQM) units can enable clinical facilities to ‘substantially reduce costs’ by identifying faults before they become a problem – ‘avoiding unexpected downtime and time-consuming maintenance for critical power suppliers’.

This year’s NAHFO Conference and Exhibition, held from 21-23 May at the Copthorne Merry Hill Hotel, Dudley, in the West Midlands, saw the introduction of advanced fire testing software by Static Systems Group.

The laundry at Noble’s Hospital on the Isle of Man is reportedly saving over £14,500 annually in energy, water, and treatment chemicals, following the installation of a Spirax Sarco FREME (Flash Recovery Energy Management Equipment) system. Over the equipment’s 20-year lifetime, the resulting fuel savings are expected to prevent the generation of over 1,750 tonnes of CO2.

Trend has developed a new Energy Microsite, an innovative online resource for end users who take the subject of energy seriously.

For those considering investing in patient entertainment and information equipment, Airwave Healthcare claims to ‘have all the bases covered’, to both improve the patient experience, and ‘deliver the vision’ of both Trusts and local hospitals.

Request a FREE Estates management review pack and discover how a specialist Estates helpdesk and maintenance solution can streamline maintenance processes by reducing equipment downtime, increasing productivity and actively managing both planned and reactive maintenance scenarios.

Static Systems’ Fusion-IP healthcare communication system was on show at HefmA 2013, along with ‘Fusion-Centra’ the company’s recently introduced fire alarm maintenance software.

Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC), which has served the NHS for over 15 years, says those familiar with its services will be aware that it is now ‘moving away from providing software solutions in a more strategic direction to focus on compliance and the demands placed on healthcare FM professionals to meet these stringent conditions’.

Cooling and heating temperature control specialist, ICS Cool Energy, is advising healthcare facilities to invest in adiabatic coolers rather than industrial cooling towers, claiming the former ‘eliminate the risk of Legionella contamination threat, and have a third of the running costs’.

A new ‘anti-Pseudomonas outlet’, and improved thermostatic sequential lever and proximity mixers, have been added to Armitage Shanks’ Markwik 21 offering.

Atus-Commander is a new IP-based management platform for messaging and personal security.

Surgeons at Birmingham Children’s Hospital have carried out over 1,000 operations in their new state-of-the art laparoscopic theatre, the city’s first of its kind, since it opened in March 2012.