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Rigel Medical has supplied a global charity that delivers healthcare services worldwide on board the world’s largest private hospital ship with a variety of biomedical test equipment, including a Multi-Flow Infusion analyser, electrical safety analysers, patient simulators, an electrosurgical analyser, and ventilation analysers.

BOC Healthcare says it offers hospitals and other care facilities ‘a total turnkey solution to the complex issue of creating safer, more secure medical gas cylinder storage’.

A ‘thinking tap’ like its Ultra is especially useful for hospitals, medical practices, and industry, says Conti + UK

A hybrid fan coil unit developed by Airedale International Air Conditioning from a concept by Arup associate director, Roger Olsen (pictured), is claimed to address ‘the biggest complaints in comfort cooling’, including energy efficiency, draughts and dead spots, space claim of secondary ductwork, unit footprint, cluttered ceiling void services, and ‘restrictive access for maintenance and installation’.

A new PVDF insulated aluminium rainscreen with integral high-performance composite windows, together with a freestanding structure, have created a ‘garden’ in front of the building to successfully transform the Queen’s Façade on Upper Maudlin Street Bristol at Bristol Royal Infirmary which, from the architect’s perspective, creates ‘interstitial public spaces that suggest a new relationship between the hospital and its urban context’.

C-TEC, which claims to be UK’s largest independent manufacturer of quality life safety electronic equipment.

Slamming doors, damage to walls and furniture, and trapped fingers, could be in the past with the introduction of GEZE’s ActiveStop – a new control mechanism for internal swing doors

Schneider Electric, the global energy management specialist, has opened a new Customer Experience Centre in Telford to showcase its ‘market-leading, digitised, and connected technology, systems, and equipment

BAM Construction has been selected as preferred bidder for the construction of an £18 m unit to care for very sick and premature babies at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire – the Sub-Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Centre (SuRNICC).

Brandon Medical has supplied ‘state-of-the-art’ medical control and power products to a new Endoscopy Unit at Nuneaton’s George Eliot Hospital.

Pineapple Contracts has extended its contract furniture range with four new products.

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust has teamed with Medirest, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, to streamline and improve its outsourced soft FM services across its hospital and community sites.

BOGE has added to its its popular EO range of oil-free scroll compressors by adding two new compact models – the EO11D and EO16 – characterised by ‘whisper-quiet’ low sound pressure levels and oil-free Class 0 (ISO 8573-1)-compliant compression.

A new book by Professor C Alan Short, Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, ‘challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located’, with a significant focus on the healthcare estate.

Medical product supplier, Vernacare, has appointed electrical and mechanical contractor, JD McGeown, as its technical services partner for Northern Ireland.

Demand for more streamlined temperature monitoring to prevent Legionnaires’ disease featured highly at last year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition, says temperature measurement specialist, TM Electronics, which has developed a solution.

Medical Air Technology (MAT) has come to the end of a major project at Barnet Hospital, comprising the complete refurbishment of the healthcare facility’s five main operating theatres, and the refurbishment and remodelling of a day surgery unit.

Health and Safety Executive’s guidelines HSG274 part 2 state that: “The use and fitting of TMVs should be informed by a comparative risk assessment of scalding risk versus the risk of infection from legionella.”

As part of its ‘strategy for growth and customer development’, Veolia has acquired energy services company and Energy Performance Contract (EPC) specialist, Cynergin.

Silentflor PUR from Polyflor is a new collection of heavy commercial sheet vinyl flooring with acoustic properties, available in a variety of high design wood, concrete, and abstract effects.