RECENT NEWS

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.

VINCI Park UK has won a new contract with the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

B&ES Publications’ newly revised TR37 – Guide to Good Practice – Installation of Combined Heat and Power (CHP), offers a practical overview of CHP for building services engineers, and ‘aims to place the installation requirements in the context of the overall construction process, and enable effective delivery of an efficiently functioning system and building’.

IDEXX, which supplies rapid microbiological test kits for water, says a peer-reviewed pan-European study in The Journal of Water and Health concludes that the IDEXX Pseudalert/ Quanti-Tray method for rapid detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces confirmed results faster than the standard reference ISO 16266 and MoDW Part 8 PACN agar membrane filtration methods, with no further confirmation steps.

Wernick Buildings says it is ‘not unaccustomed to installing healthcare buildings in a tight spot’, but recently received a challenge from Leicester Royal Infirmary that required, at least in terms of modular buildings, ‘nothing short of surgical precision’.

Trumpf Medical, which supplies products ‘designed to improve efficiency, safety, and patient care in the operating room and intensive care settings’, has moved from the Luton base of the company that gave it its name, to the headquarters of Hill-Rom, the group that will ‘shape its future’.