RECENT NEWS

Electrical vehicle charging points from APT Technologies, distributor of the E-Volt range, now feature on five levels of the Glasgow Southern General Hospital’s multi-storey car park.

ASSA ABLOY has enhanced its extensive door closer portfolio with the new DC840 (pictured) and DC300.

Wandsworth’s IPiN system has been installed throughout the wards, acute treatment areas, and A&E unit, at the new 100% single-bed, 512-bed Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

Pegler Yorkshire can now offer a new mixing valve that it says greatly simplifies valve selection while simultaneously enhancing product performance – by blending two valves into one “all-purpose”, multi-use TMV.

Develop Training has launched a dedicated Facilities Management Division, which replaces its existing EM&BS (Electrical Mechanical and Building Services) Division.

The BVM Group’s latest Mobile PC, ICEFire, is a 10.4 inch tablet PC optimised for medical use, featuring dual 1880mAh medical grade Li-ion “hot swap” battery packs for availability “24/7”.

The estimated market for energyefficient equipment finance over the next three years in the professional services sector is £270 million, new analysis from the Carbon Trust and Siemens suggests.

Capita Symonds has been awarded a place on all 10 lots of the NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) Framework for estates services provision.

As part of a “stepping up” of measures to ensure all its TMV3 products for healthcare applications are bacteria-free at installation.

The Combustion Engineering Association (CEA) says a new guidance document, INDG436, “Safe Management of Industrial Steam and Hot Water Boilers”, replacing existing guidance document.

Isolated power and UPS specialist, Bender UK, claims to have developed “the first touchscreen surgeons’ panel truly tailored to individual requirements”.

A portable, retractable room divider, the KwickScreen (HEJ – October 2009), designed to afford hospital patients maximum privacy, dignity, and protection, has won the UK leg of the James Dyson Award, impressing judges with its “simplicity and commercial potential”, and will now compete against 18 other “international” entries for the top global prize.

One of the UK’s leading fabricators and installers of commercial glazing, Britplas, says it plans to work with manufacturers and suppliers of a wide range of hardware, fixtures, fittings, and furniture supplied into mental healthcare facilities to establish uniform tests that will enable NHS specifiers to buy such items confident that they are safe, fit-for-purpose, robust, and do not, for example, claim to have an anti-ligature design when they do not.

ISG, the construction, management, and fit-out services specialist, has secured a “fast-track” £1.3 million project with Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to create a new Andrology department and Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) at the city’s St Mary’s Hospital.

Trumpf Medical Systems says it closed its most successful fiscal year ever on 30 June, with sales of 176 million Euros.

Specialist building and estates information provider, Topscan, has welcomed Marc Watson, formerly estates manager for NHS South of Tyne and Wear.

The Institute of Acoustics’ “Acoustics 2011” conference in Glasgow in September, themed “A new decade – a new reality: rethinking acoustic practice for the austerity decade”.

Construction company Mansell, which is currently undertaking works valued at around £17 million via a ProCure21+ contract at the world-famous children’s hospital as part of the facility’s current redevelopment, has presented Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity with a cheque for £33,000.

Against what it says is “a backdrop of product recalls and counterfeit goods”, the British Standards Institution (BSI) has launched a new Kitemark scheme for commercial catering appliances.

Ian Stone, who was responsible for introducing an award-winning remote monitoring system for medical gases while with previous employer, SHJ Pipelines (HEJ – September 2010), has joined piped medical gas specialists, BeaconMedæs, as regional sales engineer for London and southern England.