RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Haigh Engineering’s Healthcare Team has returned from what the personnel involved dub ‘a very successful’ Healthcare Estates Conference in Manchester – the largest exhibition of its kind in the UK focusing on the design, build, maintenance, and management, of healthcare estates and facilities.

Douglas Delabie says its new Securitherm thermostatic single lever mixers ‘provide safety and comfort for patients and retirement home residents’, with the ‘ergonomic’ mixers featuring a single control to open the water flow and adjust the temperature.

Crown Decorating Centres is offering users 35 per cent off Crown Trade’s 5 Litre Steracryl Anti-Bacterial Scrubbable Matt paint if they buy the product before 31 October.

London’s new purpose-built University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre, which has five floors, each tailored to investigating and treating specific cancers, features Tarkett floorcoverings, including ‘some unique and rather special elements’.

Space heating and domestic hot water at the new East Riding Community Hospital will be supplied by a combination of biomass and gas-fired boilers from Hoval.

Wardray Premise, a specialist in the design, manufacture, and installation, of X-ray, gamma, neutron and RF shielding products, has recently installed a leadshielded window, incorporating switchable privacy glass, into a window for a new hybrid theatre facility at the London Clinic for Galliford Try.

Three Altro products have been selected for a healthcare showroom at the Central London premises of Flourish Healthcare, the healthcare offshoot of Tsunami-Axis, a commercial office environment designer.

Dr Sanaz Litkouhi, assistant professor and director of the Architecture and Urban Planning Department at the Payame Noor University, in Tehran, the author of a number of previous articles for HEJ on optimal design of healthcare facilities for children and adolescents (HEJ – November 2007, March 2008, and May 2010), describes how service users’ views were carefully gauged and taken into consideration in a project involving renovation of part of the Shahid Bahrami Children’s Hospital in Tehran.

In January 2012, three babies died from Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in Northern Ireland and the source was traced back to the hospital water supply.

Healthcare technology and IP communications specialist, The Wandsworth Group, and critical voice and data communications company, Airwave Healthcare, showed for the first time at Healthcare Estates 2012 a system they say seamlessly integrates the former’s IPiN nurse call system and the latter’s patient entertainment hospital televisions.

Gilgen Door Systems showcased its new swing door drive unit and Safeguard professional maintenance solutions at Healthcare Estates 2012.

According to Casey Wells, marketing manager at Trend Controls, and a regular exhibitor at Healthcare Estates, “Healthcare Estates 2012 was certainly a success for us. This event gives us a welcome opportunity to meet end users and healthcare professionals to discuss the requirements and challenges facing this marketplace”.

The centrepiece of a range of ‘premium performance’ fire detection and emergency lighting systems shown by Hochiki Europe was the live working demonstrations of the company’s latest ‘breakthrough’ – FIREscape+ – which integrates addressable fire detection and emergency lighting technology ‘to provide an intelligent wayfinding solution’.

As did Horne surface mounted shower panels – in particular for the integrity of each design and also their ease of installation, use and maintenance.

By upgrading condensate recovery systems, healthcare estates managers ‘can make major energy savings and reduce their carbon emissions’, according to steam system specialist, Spirax Sarco.

BeaconMedaes – which claims to be the world's leading supplier of medical gas pipeline equipment (MGPS) – manufactures, design, installs, and maintains medical air plant, medical vacuum plant, AGS components, manifolds, and pipeline components to HTM 02-01 standards.

Wardray Premise are acknowledged experts in the design, manufacture and installation of x-ray, gamma, neutron and RF shielding products.

Bender UK is a leading provider of isolated power supplies (IPS), uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), surgeons control panels (SCP) and surgical equipment for hospitals, clinics and private practises.

Lerch Bates, which says it has been involved in many healthcare projects over the past 20 years, ranging from planning, design, and implementation of new lift systems to project management of major repairs, modernisations, and completing lift safety audits, says hospitals are ‘among the most complex buildings when it comes to vertical transportation’.

Arguing that, ‘in the current difficult economic climate of tight budgets and the need to prioritise expenditure’ more focus should be given to ‘extending the life of existing installations rather than replacement with cheap alternatives’, Horne says its products are specifically designed for an extended lifetime’.