RECENT NEWS

The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care has recently led research on personal protective equipment (PPE), intentionally designed and manufactured as reusable – including gowns, goggles, face shields, and elastomeric respirators – to identify prospects to reduce plastic PPE waste.

Galliford Try’s Building Southern business has successfully handed over the £12.2 m Edenbridge Memorial Health Centre (EMHC) in Four Elms Road, Edenbridge, in Kent.

Bender UK has delivered critical power supply solutions to, and equipped four ‘state-of-the-art’ theatres at, the new £100 million The Harborne Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK, on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham campus.

NHS Estates teams are increasingly turning to digital solutions to help them run and manage their buildings and facilities efficiently, but often systems are not ‘joined up’, delegates at a roundtable held by business enterprise Wi-Fi solution specialist, SPARK TSL, to discuss digital enablement within healthcare estates heard.

Willmott Dixon is making some changes to its main board from the start of this year following the retirement of Colin Enticknap as the company’s Executive Chairman at the end of 2023.

Northumberland-headquartered industrialised construction and digital manufacturing specialist, Merit, has been appointed by Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C) to design and deliver its new 48-bed modular unit on the Norwich Community Hospital site in Norfolk.

A new modular laminar flow operating theatre at Newark Hospital in Nottinghamshire can now deliver up to 2,600 extra surgical procedures per year, thanks to the efforts of a collaborative construction team.

Three new orthopaedic operating theatres built at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge by MTX using Modern Methods of Construction are playing a leading role in a national scheme to deliver more than 50 new surgical hubs across England, the company says.

Paul Musgrove, Sales director at specialist in water consumption reduction, Ecoprod, looks at the fundamentals for hospitals and other healthcare facilities in establishing an effective water management strategy. He also discusses some of the latest products and technologies designed to simplify the process, reduce consumption, and cut costs.

A ‘state-of-the-art’ cancer care facility in Guildford has reached practical completion. Representatives from Prime, VINCI Building, and Assura, gathered ‘to mark the milestone’.

The Water Regulations Approval Scheme (WRAS) has appointed Jamie Lynch as Business Development manager.

Global heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration specialist, Carrier, is urging building owners and operators to apply for UK government grants to commercialise and construct new low- and zero-carbon heat networks before the funding application deadline expires.

Zentia, a UK supplier of ‘complete ceiling solutions’, says its new Biobloc family, formerly known as Bioguard, offers high-quality performance in areas such as infection control and acoustics, ‘making it the ideal solution for healthcare and various commercial settings’.

Abloy UK has launched CLIQ Local Manager (CLM) Remote, enabling users to update key authorisations and make changes to schedules via wall programming devices, offering a flexible access control solution.

A multi-million-pound treatment centre at Heartlands Hospital has won a prestigious national award.

Substantially revised degree apprenticeships for building services engineering will help employers plug critical skills gaps and launch more young people into rewarding careers, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).

A research centre being built to complement the new 200-bedded Kinderspital Zürich has installed a dynamic solar glazing roof from liquid crystal glazing technology company, Eyrise.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure is expanding its fire safety offering on Building X through newly launched applications and an application programming interface (API), ‘to increase transparency, decrease response time in case of incidents, and enhance maintenance processes for service-providers’.

Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham is undergoing a major window replacement project to improve energy efficiency and reduce its carbon footprint.

Develop Training, a leading UK-accredited provider of compliance, technical, and safety training, has re-launched one of its most popular courses, F-Gas (Category 1), to provide delegates with training to identify the hazards and safe working practices for working with fluorinated gases.