RECENT NEWS

Honeywell and demand response aggregator company, Pearlstone Energy, have teamed up to provide a ‘smart grid programme’ for industrial and commercial facilities in the UK, including hospitals.

The €1.1 billion Etlik Integrated Healthcare Campus public-private partnership (PPP) project in Ankara, Turkey, set to be one of the world’s largest hospital campuses once built – providing 3,577 beds across over 1 million m2 – has successfully reached financial close.

Mott MacDonald is lenders’ technical and environmental advisor for the development, and will now provide construction and operational monitoring services.

The ‘most dramatic change in health and safety enforcement since 1974’, with new sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences, are ‘set to revolutionise punishment for health and safety offences’, making ‘company’ compliance more critical than ever, member-based construction and building services association, BSRIA has warned.

The NHS is set to create 100,000 apprenticeship opportunities – almost seven times the current number – for young people to work in the health sector by 2020, the Department of Health has announced.

Sterling Power, which provides engineering services to the utility and wider markets, has warned that with most hospitals supplied from the HV network due to their high power demand, ‘ageing infrastructure needs to be properly maintained, and high voltage equipment requires particular attention, as failure could result in serious and potentially disastrous consequences’.

BRE and CEEQUAL have announced plans to bring together two successful schemes – BREEAM and CEEQUAL – to create a single, science-based sustainability standard and certification tool for civil engineering and infrastructure projects in the UK and worldwide.

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust in Kent, working with NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP), has, as LPP puts it, ‘demonstrated that PFI contracts are not untouchable when it comes to finding savings for the NHS’ – a benchmarking review of the soft FM element of the Trust’s PFI contract has seen savings of £4.81 m.

Karl Storz has installed three integrated OR1 operating theatres in the ‘new and improved’ £30 m Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital.

Healthcare technology provider, Courtney Thorne, which has recently ‘completely revised’ its branding, and launched a new website as part of ‘an ambitious growth strategy’, has developed its first wireless nurse call system designed specifically for hospital environments.

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed architecture, planning, engineering, and technology firm, IBI Group, to develop long-term development plans for both its hospital sites – Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge, and Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood.

The NHS is to receive an additional £10 billion a year above inflation by 2020, ‘delivering in full the Five Year Forward View’, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced amid considerable pressure from the medical community in his autumn 2015 Spending Review.

A landmark stage has been reached with the construction of Eastwood Park’s new multi-million pound training facility (HEJ – September 2014).

Clevedon-based Devon Medical Turnkey Solutions won the Gold Award for the Most Considerate Company in the 2015 Considerate Constructors Scheme’s annual National Company Awards.

Specialist in mobile healthcare, Vanguard Healthcare, has recruited Oliver Law as director of Operations UK & Europe as part of a rapid expansion across the EU.

Cable management manufacturer, Marshall-Tufflex, has announced a multi-million pound investment programme in tooling, plant, automation, and customer services, at its production facilities and headquarters in Hastings, East Sussex.

It says the project will deliver improvements in its ‘already high levels of customer service and product quality’, reinforcing its ‘commitment to high production values and ongoing product innovation’.

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed IBI Group, to develop long-term development plans for both its hospital sites – Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge, and Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood.

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust’s (UHSM) new state-of-the- art Bronchoscopy Unit was recently officially opened by Sir Alex Ferguson.

Harland Simon, the provider of RFID tracking solutions for the healthcare industry, has launched a simple graphical search function for its established RFID Discovery medical asset tracking software

The facilities management arm of the Clugston Group, which provides estate support to schools, hospitals, factories, and commercial premises, has added a fire equipment maintenance service to its range.

Lancashire-based commercial and industrial cooling specialist, Green Cooling, recently designed and installed a complete CO2 refrigeration system, including ‘walk-in’ refrigerated storage for the main kitchens, a centralised high efficiency CO2 refrigeration system, and refrigerated storage for pharmacy use, for the new Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.