RECENT NEWS

Wireless nurse call specialist, Courtney- Thorne, has appointed Duncan Crocker as its UK engineering and services manager.

Trumpf Medical Systems is now part of Hill-Rom Holdings, following an acquisition process that closed on 1 August, placing the company ‘at the heart of a group completely focused on medical technology’.

Six months after opening its purpose- built training centre at its Sheffield headquarters, specialist fall protection company, Eurosafe Solutions, has released a new training brochure detailing its extensive on and off-site training services to anyone involved with Work at Height.

Capita has been appointed to project manage the demolition of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Rosenheim Building in central London.

A new range of TMV2 and TMV3 Opac mini shower valves for commercial applications from Bristan – available in exposed and concealed versions – is designed to simplify installation and maintenance.

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has given more details on the availability of, and bidding criteria for, funds from one of three new £10 million funding streams unveiled in June (HEJ – August 2014) by the then Skills and Enterprise Minister, Matthew Hancock, to boost the UK engineering workforce.

Architecture practice, Barr Gazetas, has designed a new wing for The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in Clerkenwell, reportedly London’s only facility of its kind.

The Carillion Health cleaning team at the Royal London Hospital is piloting ‘an innovative infection control solution’ via a six-week trial featuring a UV-C light ‘triple tower technology system’ reportedly never before used in the UK.

Altro Whiterock’s Digiclad digitally printed wall cladding has helped create a particularly imaginative and eye- catching interior in the main lobby at the recently expanded Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where its depiction of brightly-coloured scenes of woodland life, including flying birds, butterflies, wildflowers, trees, and falling leaves, has proven popular with young patients.

Tarasafe Ultra H2O is a new addition to Gerflor’s best-selling Tarasafe Ultra range of slip-resistant safety flooring for use in ‘traditional barefoot spaces with continuous wet areas’.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, as part of a ‘Better Training Better Care’ pilot sponsored by Health Education England, have joined with Virtual College to develop a free online training course – ‘An Introduction to Telemedicine’.

Baxi Commercial has appointed Andrew Maclagan as its new managing director.

Jigsaw Training has successfully renewed a contract to provide a comprehensive apprenticeship programme with leading food and support services provider, Compass Group UK & Ireland.

Interfurn Medical Systems was recently appointed to design, supply, and install, two ‘skirtless’ ultraclean ventilation canopies at Manchester Royal Infirmary as part of a new hybrid theatre suite situated within the Infirmary’s Elective Treatment Centre.

A unit for treating teenage and young adult cancer patients completed last year at Southampton General Hospital has been colourfully fitted out with Tarkett flooring.

Against a world backdrop of increased concerns about energy security, price fluctuations and, the need to address climate change, six new research projects that aim to gain a fuller understanding of how energy is managed in the country’s non-domestic buildings have recently been launched.

Funded with £3 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), on behalf of the Research Councils UK Energy Programme (RCUKEP), the research will ‘address how to use technology, data and information, mathematics, law, and sociology, to create better energy strategies and behaviours in the public and private non-domestic building stock’.

Vinyl flooring specialist, Polyflor, says its new Polysafe Verona PUR ‘confidently lays a major foundation for the future of the decorative safety flooring market’.

Vanguard Healthcare Solutions has raised £16.5 million in a debt refinancing deal with high street bank, AIB.

Guy’s Tower, at London’s famous Guy’s Hospital, has regained its title as the world’s tallest hospital building following a £40 million repair and environmental improvement programme, and the addition of a light sculpture; the Tower is now 148.65 metres high, including the artwork.

B&ES Publications’ newly updated TR/19 ‘Guide to Good Practice – Internal Cleanliness of Ventilation Systems’ offers guidance on testing and cleaning of ventilation systems to meet required standards.