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A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s best-known high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated on 3 September, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell in Berkshire.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s best-known high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated on 3 September, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell in Berkshire.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s best-known high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated on 3 September, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell in Berkshire.

Before the start of June’s highly successful IFHE-EU 2015 Congress in Turku in Finland (see also page 17), the Federation’s Executive Committee and Council met at the city’s Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel (see photo below), reports IHEEM’s IFHE representative, Andy Wavell.

The IFHE-Europe Congress for Hospital Engineering 2015, themed ‘Better productivity in healthcare with technology’, was held from 2-5 June in Turku on Finland’s south-west coast, hosted and organised by the Association of Finnish Hospital Engineering, SSTY, assisted and facilitated by the University of Turku.

A bespoke natural smoke and heat exhaust ventilator (NSHEV) manufactured by Bilco UK has been installed in a new nine-storey, multi-storey car park at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, completed by VINCI Construction UK.

Jim Marner – who has 32 years’ building and engineering services experience with Shepherd Engineering Services (SES), having joined the firm as a craft apprentice in 1982 – has been elected President of the Building & Engineering Services Association (B&ES) for 2015/16.

​A new wireless energy monitoring system which gives businesses real-time energy consumption statistics can ‘significantly extend’ the energy savings achieved when replacing ‘traditional’ commercial lighting system with LEDs, energy efficiency company, Minimise Energy, maintains.

Glazing solutions from architectural aluminium systems supplier, Kawneer, have achieved Secured by Design accreditation under the official UK police flagship initiative that supports the principles of ‘designing out crime’.

Two new operating theatres at the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley General Hospital feature Karl Storz’s OR1 NEO integrated theatre equipment as part of a £1.3 m investment to further consolidate the hospital’s reputation as one of north-west England’s leading laparoscopic gynaecological surgery centres.

MedStor was recently tasked with providing ‘the foundation for materials management solutions’ throughout the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Children in Govan, Glasgow.

A ‘forward-thinking NHS Trust’ in Surrey has recently enlisted the expertise of specialist building services engineers, RAB Specialist Engineers (RABSE), to address the issue of coil clogging in the cooling plant at one of its main hospitals, and reduce the cost of running the equipment, via the installation of air intake filter screens.

Medical Air Technology (MAT) is mid-way through a major turnkey project at Weston General Hospital in Weston-super-Mare, entailing refurbishment of three ultra clean, and one conventional, operating theatre.

Static Systems Group has created plans for a ‘ground-breaking’ Design and Innovation Centre (D&IC) at its headquarters near Wolverhampton, with the centrepiece a full-size replica four-bed bay based on one of the ProCure 21+ Repeatable Ward designs.

Vernacare claims to be ‘setting new standards in infection prevention’ with its new Vortex+ disposal unit, which uses ‘touchless’ technology to ensure that disposal of patient waste from toileting and washing is entirely hands-free.

FFE has been awarded a UK patent for the ‘innovative new light cancellation technology’ used in its Fireray range of infrared beam smoke detectors.

Well known for its ‘fully IP’ nurse call system, IPiN, Wandsworth Healthcare has launched a new website that offers both an ‘open, easy-to-digest layout’ and simple navigation, and ‘a number of innovative interactive media elements’.

A new building and engineering maintenance services framework, open to all NHS organisations, has ‘gone live’.

The Wolfson Surgical Skills Centre at London’s Royal College of Surgeons – one of the UK’s largest cadaveric procedural training facilities, has been equipped with Karl Storz’s new IMAGE1 SPIES camera platform – designed ‘to optimise the surgeon’s view of challenging anatomical areas during complex surgeries’.

A new product guide revised to categorise the company’s comprehensive range of door closers, window control systems, sliding door fittings, and smoke and heat extraction systems into sections, so that information is easy to find at a glance, has been launched by GEZE UK.