RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

In a £2.2 million contract, a specialist high security psychiatric facility, said to be the only one exclusively serving Scotland and Northern Ireland, has been fitted with new aluminium windows, screens, and louvres, as well as the company’s “unique” Anti Contraband Secureline SwingVent window system, from Fendor UK.

Testo says its Saveris wireless temperature and humidity monitoring system is “the ideal solution” for continuous monitoring of temperature and humidity in critical environments.

Power Electrics Generators has been awarded a two-year contract to maintain all standby generators at the three hospitals making up Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust – the John Radcliffe, Churchill, and Horton General hospitals.

A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of IHEEM who has spent his entire professional career within hospital engineering has been appointed as general manager by SHJ Hospital Pipelines, a supplier, installer, and maintainer of medical gas pipeline systems, associated alarms, and condition monitoring equipment to both the NHS and the independent healthcare sector.

To create a welcoming, comfortable environment for visitors to Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Construction Specialties (C/S) has delivered a bespoke interior wall design using its Acrovyn textured sheeting.

Energy savings “of up to 70%”, built-in scald protection, easy temperature selection for those with restricted hand use, thanks to “wing-shaped, easy to grasp” controls, and an “anti-tamper setting” of 38°C are among features of Contour Showers’ new Eco-save “energy and water-saving mixer shower”.

Two new antibacterial decorative coatings specially formulated “to help cash-strapped health Trusts prevent the spread of superbugs in their facilities”, and simultaneously “deliver cost savings by significantly extending redecoration schedules” have been launched by Crown Trade.

The design, construction, installation, and validation of four “turnkey” CL3 laboratory suites at Malta’s Mater Dei Hospital in Msida has been undertaken by Oldham-based “clean air” system specialist Medical Air Technology (MAT).

Trend Control Systems’ new Ethernet Metering Interface Controller (EMIC) “cost-effectively” allows readings from multiple, multi-parameter electricity meters to be automatically channelled to a Trend building energy management system (BEMS), where they can be displayed, analysed, and then acted on, to effect energy savings.

The first product to be launched by Redhill-based Bytec Medical, the recentlyformed medical equipment manufacturer, and engineering and design arm of the Bytec group, is a keyboard extensively trialled prior to launch to ensure it met the stringent infection control demands of A&E departments, hospital wards, and other healthcare environments.

Sirrus by Gummers has launched a range of shower panels which it believes are the market’s slimmest TMV3-approved such units.

A new website from supplier of safes, key safes, padlocks and other security products Securikey (www.securikey.co.uk),

JG Speedfit has launched an underfloor heating website, www.speedfitufh.co.uk It contains detailed technical information and advice on a variety of practical areas, including how underfloor heating works, floor type choices, and fully interactive demonstrations of system controls, plus projects and case studies highlighting best practices.

Design and build contractor Composite is to build a new pre-cast concrete, multi-storey visitor car park at York Hospital, for the York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working in partnership with main contractor, Kier Northern.

Developed to enable Drax (UK) fire detection and alarm equipment users to “monitor every stage of the maintenance process from any authorised location”, and to document every part of the maintenance cycle, IRIS (Internet Recording Information System) is a new web-based service management system.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital staff selected a new Modula S-TP water purification system from ELGA Process Water for the hospital’s new £2.7 million Children’s Kidney Unit (HEJ – May 2010).

A roof at Reading’s Royal Berkshire Hospital is finally free of scaffolding thanks to a 3M roofing solution. The flat roof covering the hospital’s radiology department had been leaking, but the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust had not had the budget to replace it.

Birmingham City Hospital has turned to specialist in commercial showering, washroom controls, fittings, and systems Rada to help target improved efficiencies in infection control after detecting higher than expected C. difficile rates in a former Nightingale ward for the elderly.

Since it was launched at the IHEEM exhibition last year, the Dyteqta-System - the world’s first dedicated non-invasive, non-destructive, fully automatic drainage monitoring system - has been generating considerable interest from across the healthcare sector. This has included infection control specialists, facility and building services managers, construction firms and drainage materials suppliers.

There has never been a previous time when those responsible for the maintenance of ventilation systems had more reason to ensure they are maintained in a clean and safe condition. The very air that patients, staff and visitors breathe must be safe and, since the essential function of air ventilation systems is to circulate clean, safe air, it is indisputable that they need to be kept clean.