RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Mood lighting” designed by a UK company has been installed in a new hi-tech scanner room at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham to create a relaxing atmosphere for patients.

The “Programma Cap” bathroom fitting range launched by Häfele UK is said to allow designers to create bathrooms “for everyone in society”, with a range that includes grab rails and shower seats that disappear from view when not required by the user.

A team from duct cleaning specialist Ductbusters has worked out-of-hours and at weekends for a two-week period to clean and sterilise the ductwork feeding five of the operating theatres at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital.

Uninterruptible Power Supplies has announced the arrival of the PowerWAVE 8000DPA – the latest addition to the company’s “highly acclaimed” threephase rack-format modular UPS (uninterruptible power supply) range.

Tour & Andersson, the hydronic balancing solution specialist, has appointed Sergio Pontone as key accounts manager for London and the south-east of England.

Buoyed by the excellent reception among UK hospitals to its TruLight LED surgical light, launched last year, Trumpf Medical Systems has incorporated enhancements to the ultra-slim, lightweight product.

A wall cladding product said to be the world’s first PVC wall cladding system containing BioCote silver ion antimicrobial technology is now available for healthcare use.

When installing cavity wall insulation at Southend University Hospital, Climate Energy Solutions was keen to ensure minimal disruption to patients and staff.

Aura Corporation’s new Halo luminaire is a circular surface-mounted luminaire body with all the benefits of Actulite polarised daylight lighting, plus “effective sidelighting”.

GOJO describes its new PURELL skin nourishing foam hand sanitiser as “a breakthrough product” that meets World Health Organisation hygiene requirements while greatly improving skin condition.

SFS intec’s new ISOTAK TIA fastening system has delivered cost and time savings compared with alternative adhesive options on the roof of the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital’s new £22 million Women’s Centre.

NextiraOne has completed a second major contract from East Anglia’s James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to build additional dedicated data centre facilities.

Vernacare has appointed a UK manufacturing team to produce its new porter’s chair, created as part of the Department of Health and NHS PASA’s “Design Bugs Out” challenge (HEJ – June 2009).

Brandon Medical has supplied equipment including customised pendants, examination lighting, and IPS and UPS emergency back-up systems, for a new critical care unit for the Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH).

When Spirax Sarco supplied new, energy-saving heating and hot water systems for Kettering General Hospital, it also helped secure Government funding for the project.

Alarm Radio Monitoring has just completed the first phase of a new staff personal security system installation at the New State Hospital in Lanarkshire. The existing State Hospital is one of only four high secure hospitals in the UK, and is currently undergoing a £65 million rebuild, due for completion by 2010/11.

Cogeneration specialist ENER-G says City Hospitals Sunderland will “dramatically cut” both its carbon emissions and energy costs at the 970-bed Sunderland Royal Hospital by installing one of the company’s 1.55 MW combined heat and power (CHP) systems.

The exacting thermal specification for NHS Lothian’s new Midlothian Community Hospital in Bonnyrigg includes EcoTherm polyisocyanurate (PIR) insulation roofboard.

Curtain walling, windows and doors from Kawneer are to feature on the £170 million PPP “waveform” extension to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Designed by BDP Architects to exacting solar transmission criteria, the new wing will feature Kawneer’s AA110 dry-jointed curtain walling on the concave and convex main west elevation and on courtyards.

Wycombe Hospital has reportedly reduced its electricity bill for a single piece of plant by over £5,000 over a year, after installing an EMPOWER intelligent plant control system from SHJ Hospital Pipelines that has taken over primary control of a threecompressor medical air system.