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London’s St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, through its FM company, Skanska, has contracted with Clarke Energy to install a combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP) plant powered by a Jenbacher gas engine from GE Power & Water.

Varied conference topics discussed at the CIBSE Building Performance Conference and Exhibition next month at London’s QEII Exhibition Centre.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s bestknown high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated last month, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell.

Construction and engineering company, MTX, has recently been awarded the contract to deliver a twin operating theatre suite, complete with a 4-bed first stage, and two 8-bed second stage, recovery units, at Luton and Dunstable Hospital for Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

ECEX has appointed Steve Bell as manager for the business’s Air Intake Screens arm.

As part of a current ongoing £90 m redevelopment of the Glan Clwyd Hospital in Rhyl, North Wales, the healthcare facility has seen an extensive upgrade to LED examination lighting.

Amid increasing reports that waste fires now account for a growing proportion of public fires. Taylor, a manufacturer of four-wheeled galvanised steel bins, has developed a ‘fire-proof’ lid.

Mitie, the facilities management company, has appointed Lindsey Coles as healthcare director in its facilities management division.

Provider of practical-based and distance learning medical equipment training, Avensys UK (HEJ – August 2015), has received CPD accreditation for all its Level 2 and 3 courses, and is inviting engineers to attend a free online training session on ‘Electrical Safety Testing’, on September 16 at 1 pm.

Phil Story has joined the team at supplier, installer, and integrator of digital television and audio visual components, Airwave Healthcare, as a regional account manager.

BSRIA has extended its scope of UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accreditation to include laboratorybased acoustic testing.

An ‘important milestone’ in P+HS Architects’ long-standing relationship with Nuffield Health has seen the completion of a brand new hospital for the private healthcare provider in Cambridge.

With support from the Government’s export agency, UKTI (UK Trade & Investment), Vernacare says it has secured more than 23% of the Singapore hospital market for its ‘hygienic patient washing and toileting products’.

The ‘pioneering’ Joy Care by Bristan, a ‘stylishly designed’ BEAB Care and RNIB-endorsed shower said to be easy to install and retrofit, is being used in conjunction with shower pumps ‘to meet the complex requirements of wet room retrofits in the care and social housing sectors’.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has started using Unique Device Identifiers based on GS1 standards in healthcare recalls, in a move which GS1 UK says ‘will improve traceability, efficiency, and cost savings, throughout the NHS’.

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.