RECENT NEWS

Building security systems integrator Santana Solutions has been bought by Red Dot Technologies. The move is part of Red Dot’s strategic worldwide expansion into fire alarm and detection expertise and was completed for an undisclosed amount.

Paul Willetts, formerly assistant director for commissioning, facilities and planning at South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, has joined architects RyderHKS as healthcare group leader.

Torbay Hospital contracted maintenance specialist WYKO to investigate whether there was a viable alternative to an expensive method of removing wastewater from an area around fuel oil storage tanks.

Brian James, chief executive of Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, is the latest senior NHS executive to join the speaker panel at the HEFMA 2007 Annual Conference & Exhibition, taking place 23-24 May at the Hilton Blackpool hotel.

The Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead has purchased the AXIOM Iconos R200 from Siemens Medical Solutions to improve workflow and precision in patient diagnosis.

Rydon Group, the construction, development and property maintenance company, has recruited David Hay as the new managing director of of Ryhurst Limited, the specialist PFI arm of the Group.

Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital is launching an 18-month clinical trial to establish whether copper surfaces can combat MRSA and other hospitalacquired infections.

Kenway Court, a new John Grooms’ residential home for disabled adults in Southendon- Sea, has welcomed its first residents. Designed by Norwich and London-based LSI Architects, the 24-place registered care home with nursing for the John Grooms Charity has been designed to support independence and accessible accommodation to the highest standards for its residents with physical disability.

A fully portable surgical operating theatre powered by solar, pedal, or wind energy has been developed by a team of medical professionals in Kent that will offer life-saving surgical treatment to people living in some of the most remote and hostile parts of the world.

The £62.5 million Brent Emergency Care and Diagnostic Centre (BECaD) at Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal, London, has completed. The scheme was designed by HLM Architects in association with Avanti Architects and constructed by Bouygues (UK) through the PFI form of procurement.

Cambridge-based Cound Webber Architects is further expanding its design team with the appointment of architectural technician Alan Baker.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has thrown its weight behind the RIBA’s proposals that design issues should be considered at the early stages of PFI projects.

The Engineering Council UK (ECUK) is pressing for greater Government action to protect the status of UK integrated Master’s Degrees from threats posed by the “Bologna process” under which 45 European countries have agreed to align their higher education systems.

Pamela Greenwood has recently joined IHEEM as accounts manager while Marie Davey is away on maternity leave.

Due to popular demand, IHEEM will be hosting a further seminar titled “Decontamination: Focus on HTM 01” on 6 June in Birmingham.

Information has been provided by the Department of Health Estates and Facilities Division relating to changes to the surgical instrument decontamination guidance revision programme arising from the NICE recommendations and ESAC-Pr stakeholder consultation.

All IHEEM members are invited to join the IHEEM President, Phil Nedin, at the IHEEM Annual AGM, 15th May 2007, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London.

The first image of Southend Hospital’s multi-million pound redevelopment plan has been released by the master planners of the scheme, LSI Architects.

Lawyers from Addleshaw Goddard’s national projects team closed 13 major PPP and PFI deals across a range of sectors including housing, education, health and utilities, in an eight week period.

Hornagold & Hills has completed the construction of the new James Black Centre at King’s College London.