RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Casella’s new CEL-242 and CEL-246 sound level meters can store time history onto an onboard memory capable of logging over 400,000 measurements, showing how noise has fluctuated, and allowing users to understand at what point noise control measures are necessary.

Foremans Relocatable Building Systems, looking to expand its pre-owned modular building stock, will buy, remove and recycle quality surplus single or multistorey modular accommodation.

A 20-year life, and 12% reductions in energy consumption compared with other fluorescent lamps, are promised by the new T8 Eco Saver Long Life lamp from Aura now available from the Greenstock Lamp Company.

ICT services and solutions provider Proximity Communications has completed the implementation of an IP-ready telephony solution for Nottinghamshire Healthcare, an NHS mental health and learning disability service provider.

Kohler Mira company Rada has launched what it claims is the world’s first digital mixing valve for washbasins designed specifically for healthcare applications. With an estimated 300,000 UK hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) annually (National Audit Office, June 2009), it argues that good hand hygiene has never more critical.

Bosch Security Systems has extended its range of PS (Personal Security) pagers with its new PS-Transceiver, which offers, all within a compact, mobile unit, a push-to-talk speech function that lets users speak to individuals or to a group of people simultaneously.

Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital has installed Drax (UK)’s Connect SMS monitoring system.

Sangamo Lighting’s upgrading of a link corridor lighting system within the Royal Edinburgh Hospital has reportedly brought client NHS Lothian an energy saving in the area of over 70% per annum, with a payback period of under 18 months.

Andy Whiteley (pictured) has become the new divisional director of Andrews Air Conditioning Services (AACS), with a remit to align the business more closely with the group’s air conditioning hire division as part of the company’s growth strategy.

HCP has supplied 970 linear metres of radiant heating panels to the new £60 million Bristol Heart Institute.

Paxton Access’s new “vandal resistant” compact metal keypad is an all-in-one system for outdoor gates and barriers.

Pegler Yorkshire has launched a range of TMV3 in-line thermostatic mixing valves designed to eliminate the risk of scalding in hospitals and care homes.

One of the UK’s first new “super hospitals”, currently under construction by Balfour Beatty Construction for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, is said to be unique in that hundreds of staff and a number of patient representatives have not only helped design it, but have also selected its medical products.

Douglas Delabie says that, “with an alarming 5 –12% of patients in Europe each year contracting a nosocomial infection” its new “specialist” water controls are “sure to be of interest for healthcare professionals”.

British Gypsum GypWall partitions have been selected for all five phases of the Manchester Joint Hospitals PFI project, bringing the total value of the company’s products specified to over £3.5 million.

German “flooring care” company Dr Schutz describes its new “PU Design” product as “an innovative solution that quickly and easily transforms tired, damaged or old vinyl, linoleum or rubber floors at a fraction of the time and cost of a floor replacement”.

Patients in Nottingham are the UK’s first to benefit from a new range of textiles with “proven protection” against healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs).

The Paramount MB from Potterton Commercial is a modular prefabricated condensing heating solution suitable for new and existing plant rooms within a variety of applications, including hospitals.

An easy-to-clean floor supplied and installed by Ryebrook Resins is a key feature of the new mortuary at Milton Keynes General Hospital.

A hand-held spray reportedly proven to be effective against the H1N1 swine flu virus has been launched by a British company.