RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

British Gas, which works closely with healthcare organisations ‘to deliver significant guaranteed energy and carbon savings via optimisation and upgrading of an estate’s energy-related assets’, says it can offer ‘solutions that deliver end-toend, self-funding projects’ using a comprehensive range of innovative energy and carbon reduction measures.

Eastwood Park Training is returning to Healthcare Estates ‘to make several significant announcements’, while CEO, John Thatcher, will address ‘Succession planning and workforce development in healthcare engineering and estate management’ on the conference’s first day.

Reducing energy from lighting; cutting CO2 emissions, and ‘making the right decisions when upgrading to LEDs’, will be the key messages from lighting manufacturer, Tamlite.

Visitors to Trend’s stand will discover how ‘up to 84 per cent’ of their healthcare estate’s energy consumption could be controlled using a building energy management system.

A radiant heating system that replaces radiators and skirting trim ‘in one convenient package’, developed in conjunction with the NHS, will be shown by DiscreteHeat.

TEAL Patents is working ‘in partnership’ with healthcare estates managers ‘to deliver tangible hand hygiene solutions for a variety of problems’.

Two new Taurus Max healthcare windows – a Horizontal Slider, and an Automated Opening Window – designed specifically for mental healthcare applications, will be shown by ATB Secure.

The Wandsworth Group will showcase its complete range of IPiN IP-based nurse call systems.

Cistermiser once again demonstrated its wide range of washroom control solutions, including water-saving systems featuring the latest infrared control technology.

With the UK healthcare sector currently spending over £400 million annually on energy, and electricity already accounting for up to 50% of the cost as the demand for specialist medical equipment grows, ICS Cool Energy says using free cooling technology can bring considerable energy savings.

Trend Control Systems says that, for many healthcare estates managers, the most effective way to control their energy use could be ‘right under their noses – using building energy management systems (BEMS)’.

Capstone microturbine CHP and CCHP solutions “reduce energy costs, ensure power availability, and have ‘a near-zero emissions profile’,” says Turner EPS, Capstone Turbine Corporation’s UK distributor.

Ty Penrhos, a three-storey Hafod Care dementia care home in Caerphilly with a particularly high demand for both heat and power, ‘24 /7’, is benefiting from two forms of renewable energy supplied by Baxi Commercial.

LED lighting is ‘ever evolving, and strengthening its position in the mainstream lighting market’.

IHEEM President, Greg Markham, will be among speakers at a ‘Public Sector Sustainability Conference’ being held by energy solutions specialist, and manufacturer of the Powerstar range of voltage optimisation equipment, EMSc (UK), at Epsom Downs Racecourse, Surrey, on 25 September.

Marshall-Tufflex says its new Commercial Boiler Manager unit ‘can cut 20% (subject to boiler use pattern) off’ heating and hot water bills, and prolong commercial boiler life, ‘without compromising user comfort’.

Schneider Electric, a ‘global energy management specialist’, says its new Building Analytics software offers building owners and facility managers ‘deep insight’ into how a building’s energy is being used.

An NHS Surrey programme to upgrade heating and hot water systems across over 20 sites has seen the organisation standardise on new equipment from Hamworthy Heating.

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.