RECENT NEWS

Global programme and project delivery consultant and construction expert, Mace, has been appointed to the NHS Building for Wales 2 Framework ‘to support the delivery of outstanding healthcare facilities with healthcare boards and Trusts across Wales’.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) Community Midwife Unit (CMU) in Paisley in Scotland has transformed into an Alongside Midwife Unit (AMU), open now, with the upgrade providing pregnant women with enhanced birthing rooms and a wider range of labouring aids, all within a serene and tranquil setting.

Bolstering its ‘end-to-end’ prefabrication, offsite manufacturing, modular assembly, and packaged plant rooms services, mechanical and electrical specialist, Livingston Building Services has acquired Bathgate-based ‘bespoke engineering specialist’, JB Engineering.

Heatherwood Hospital, designed by multidisciplinary design practice, BDP, has been named the best elective care centre in England by patients.

Construction company, development specialist, and property management business, Stepnell, has opened a new office in Liverpool’s Albert Docks, in a move that it says ‘marks a significant step’ in its expansion into the North West.

Small and medium-sized enterprises are being given the chance to engage with their bigger counterparts, along with education and governments, ‘to help drive policy reform, close the skills gap, and generate growth’, with the recent Westminster launch of The Enginuity Alliance, ‘a unique body structured to help British industry compete with the strictures and challenges ahead’.

BES, the ‘specialist in design and construction of technically complex environments for pharmaceutical, healthcare and advanced scientific sectors’, has completed phase one of new cleanroom and manufacturing facilities for Terumo Aortic (Vascutek) in Glasgow.

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched three new soft facilities management (FM) procurement solutions designed to ‘enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure high-quality environments for NHS patients, staff, and visitors’.

A multi-million-pound improvement programme to expand the Emergency Department at Worthing Hospital began on 22 November with a special ground-breaking event.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has published a fully revised version of its long-established industry guidance, 'DW145: Installation of Fire Dampers and Smoke Dampers'.

Clean air technology specialist, Howorth Air Technology, which designs, manufactures, and assembles ultraclean air equipment for use in operating theatres, and for the pharma, biotechnology, and life science industries, is moving its headquarters to ‘a flagship north-west development’ to meet growing demand and its future expansion plans.

NHS Property Services has announced that it has received a resolution to grant from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for the Whitechapel Road Life Sciences project, which will see it revitalise a series of outdated buildings and empty sites in the area near the Royal London Hospital into a thriving life sciences district.

Barts Life Sciences, a partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London, has partnered with Waltham Forest College to launch a new Health and Life Sciences Hub, designed to expand education, skills, and career opportunities, across North East London.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has renewed its seven-year Managed Equipment Service (MES) contract with Canon Medical Systems UK, to help provide patient support and clinical continuity in the provision of diagnostic ultrasound systems.

NHS Property Services says work to deliver a ‘state-of-the-art’ health and care facility in Trowbridge in Wiltshire has begun, after the multi-million-pound project was ‘given the green light’.

Secure I.T. Environments Ltd (SITE), a leading UK design and build company for modular, containerised, and micro data centres, has completed a series of infrastructure upgrades at one of the communication facilities at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

A Yorkshire hospice says it is ‘helping patients to shine a little brighter’, after winning clinical lighting solutions worth £10,000.

The objectives of steam-raising plant are straightforward: to release the energy in the input fuel as efficiently as possible, to transfer that energy to water to generate steam, and to separate the steam from the water for use in processes requiring heat energy, explains Fulton’s UK Sales & Export manager, Dave Dolan.

A report just published explores the value of the LIFT portfolio – highlighting the benefits and advantages of the buildings to local communities and health systems, and comparing the relative cost of the LIFT estate to the broader NHS and commercial estate.

New solar panels, improved heating systems, and LED lighting are to be installed at hospitals across Powys, alongside upgrades to roof and pipework insulation, thanks to a £4.2 m injection of Welsh Government funding.