RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

SAS International has developed a new CIBSE-recognised CPD presentation on radiant heating. Designed for both engineers and architects,

Among services offered by a company formed by husband and wife team Paul and Kathy Blair in April 2008 are gutter cleaning, maintenance and repair, roof and skylight repair and replacement, re-testing of safety wire systems, and roof maintenance, inspection and appraisal.

Codelocks’ new heavy duty CL600 mechanical locks incorporate a new “Quick Code” system that allows ondoor code changing “in seconds” using the keypad on the lock’s front.

SpeedDeck has provided its secret fix roofing solution and Vitesse architectural cladding panels for the new extension to the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s radiotherapy department in Sutton, Surrey.

The way that a growing “body” of artwork has come together in UK healthcare facilities, and the increasing acknowledgment of art’s benefits on the overall “quality” of the patient experience, and speed of recovery, were the themes of a recent “National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference 2009” held in London.

Delegates at Building Better Healthcare’s recent “National Patient Environment and the Arts Conference 2009” in London heard how national public arts think tank ixia has appointed Bristol-based arts and wellbeing development agency Willis Newson to write “concise and convincing guidance” on commissioning art for new healthcare facilities.

Catalyst Healthcare, the PFI consortium managing the Manchester New Hospitals Development, has specified Armitage Shanks’ modern mixer taps and specially designed toilets for the new £500 m healthcare complex.

A self-powered, robust, portable trolley cart for its computer terminals designed to provide medical staff and patients with easy, instant access to information has been launched by JAOtech.

A “whole room” single portable unit disinfection & air purification system that reportedly deodorises and refreshes air, removes and sterilises dust and airborne particles, and controls contamination by virus, bacteria, mould, and fungus, has been unveiled by PureLightUK.

C-TECs “cost-effective and versatile” addressable call system, Quantec, has been specified by nurse call and panic alarm specialist Contract Distributors for a new £7.5 million healthcare facility in Great Malvern, Worcestershire.

Fitted furniture valued at £371,000 from David Bailey Furniture Systems has been specified by architects Watkins Gray International for many of the main wards and reception areas at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children as part of a series of refurbishment projects undertaken by construction company Mansell.

Trend says the look, feel and mode of operation of the IQView4 touch screen display for its building management systems will be “instantly familiar” to anyone with an MP3 player, satellite navigation system or modern mobile phone.

Gradus has installed wall protection and barrier matting at a new treatment centre at King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield.

Installers and healthcare estate managers “seeking a traditional appearance, yet a more user-friendly economic alternative to cast iron guttering”, should look no further, Marshall-Tufflex says, than the company’s new Universal Elegance cast iron appearance system.

Glenfield Hospital, one of three University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust hospitals in the city, has bough two Traka L Series (180) secure key cabinets to replace a previous “unreliable” system, which gave little data on users, often simply reporting that an “unknown user” had accessed a key.

An electronic logging system that, via engineer-generated, real-time reports, enables estates personnel to constantly monitor both the temperature and condition of water, and the efficiency and operation of water plant at multiple sites, which will also email them immediately should a problem arise, has been launched by Kent-based eLogger.

Waterford Regional Hospital in the Republic of Ireland is using Spirax Sarco clean steam generators to meet strict steam quality standards in its central sterilisation department.

The new Liebert FS is a low noise, compact, lightweight flywheel DC energy storage system from Emerson Network Power designed to meet the power storage requirements necessary to ensure power continuity when mains power to a protected load fails.

A “perfect combination of strength, hygiene and performance, making it very well suited to healthcare environments”, are the key features claimed for a new composite washbasin material from Franke Sissons.

The new Net2 nano wireless single door access control unit, designed to “extend the possibilities “of Paxton Access’s Net2 product, eliminates the need for hardwiring between door controllers and a PC by replacing a wired connection with a wireless version.