RECENT NEWS

Two IHEEM members are to be congratulated on recently being awarded Engineering Council CEng status.

A number of new initiatives are being put in place at this year’s IHEEM Healthcare Estates exhibition and conference, with both visitors from the NHS, and other public sector attendees, set to benefit from a variety of incentives and exclusive opportunities, including the chance to secure ‘VIP’ status when they attend the flagship IHEEM annual event, which takes place this year from 9-10 October at Manchester Central.

Peter Jackson, a member of the Institute for 58 years, and the son of one of the original founding members of the Institute of Hospital Engineers, died on 11 January 2012, aged 85.

IHEEM has announced that it will be holding two seminars on ‘Sustainability’ in April and May this year. Speakers already confirmed for the ‘Plan Today for A Sustainable Tomorrow’ events, taking place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel on 19 April, and on 16 May at a London venue to be confirmed, include Phil Nedin, an Institute Past President, Chartered Engineer, and director of Arup’s global healthcare business.

MITIE chief executive, Ruby McGregor- Smith, recipient of a CBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours List (HEJ – February 2012), and one of only a small number of women CEOs in a FTSE 100 company, will address the British Institute of Facilities Management’s (BIFM) ‘ThinkFM’ conference this summer.

ADT Fire and Security has provided a sophisticated fire detection system to the new £300 million Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Stirlingshire, Scotland’s largest NHS construction ever built, with 4,000 rooms, 25 wards, and 860 beds.

Sixteen successful candidates selected as finalists in the 2012 Architects for Health (AfH) Student Design Awards recently participated in a week of seminars, tutored studios, and site visits in London, including to St Thomas’s Hospital in south London.

Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton has awarded the contract for its new threestorey ward building to BAM Construction. Work on the £34 million centre will start on March 5 this year, with the first patients expected to be treated towards late Autumn 2013.

Designer and manufacturers of fire alarms, voice alarms, call systems, induction loop systems, and other life-safety electronic equipment, C-TEC, has relocated to a new 75,000 ft2 factory on Wigan’s Challenge Way, about three miles from its old Stephens Way facilities.

Dutch-headquartered specialist in the design, manufacture, and marketing, of personal security, speech paging, and messaging systems for hospitals, detention centres, care homes, prisons, and the hospitality market, Atus BV, has established a UK office in Cheltenham, which will offer direct sales, service, and support.

DMA Signs has completed a major signage project at the NHS Dudley LIFT Brierley Hill Health and Social Care Centre in the West Midlands, fitting both its new internal ‘Sign Trak’ signs and external monoliths and safety signage.

Medical engineering specialist, Starkstrom, says it has been supporting the UK export market by winning substantial orders on hospital operating theatre projects throughout Europe, and in Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and India, and across the whole of the African continent.

Asteral has been appointed by The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to manage and maintain its existing equipment portfolio and provide guidance on future capital purchases.

Howorth Air Technology, which recently celebrated 150 years of engineering ‘clean air’, is opening new offices in Bayville, New Jersey, to help consolidate its role in the US medical and pharmaceutical markets.

Ease of installation made the case for using Knauf Drywall’s Safeboard walllining in the X-ray rooms of the UK’s first new dental school for 40 years – at the Peninsula Dental School at the Tamar Science Park, Plymouth.

The Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association (HVCA) is rebranding, and, from the beginning of this month, will be known as the Building & Engineering Services Association (B&ES).

The Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, better known as Wigan Infirmary, anticipates it will avoid spending £48,847 per annum in fuel and maintenance costs following the installation of 157 of Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps throughout the site.

The new Sheikh Khalifa Specialist Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE has commissioned Berchtold to deliver 108 ceiling mounts, 130 operating room and examination lights, and 13 mobile Operon D 760 and D 850 operating tables with accessories – the company’s largest single order in the past decade.

A Government-owned limited company, NHS Property Services, is to take ownership of, and manage, that part of the existing primary care trust estate that will not transfer to NHS community care providers under the healthcare reform plans set out in the Health and Social Care Bill, Andrew Lansley has announced.

Bespoke Vistamatic vision panels have been specified for the Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, which will comprise 32 campuses, and will ultimately accommodate over 40,000 students and 12,000 employees, boasting a 700-bed teaching hospital, plus research centres for nanotechnology, information technology, and bioscience.