RECENT NEWS

Existing healthcare design guidance – mainly Health Building Notes and Health Technical Memoranda – is a vital part of health facility design but, Architects for Health (AfH) believes, is ‘increasingly out of date and suffering from lack of recent investment’.

Getinge Group says its new range of Moduevo ceiling supply units can be deployed ‘in diverse healthcare environments’, with the pendants ensuring that vital utilities and equipment are easily accessible, and ‘streamlining workflows and improving efficiency’.

Specialist provider of healthcare alarm and communication solutions, Static Systems Group, recently welcomed members of The Worshipful Company of Engineers (WCoE) to its Staffordshire headquarters.

Filtration and water treatment product supplier, Fileder Filter Systems, has released a full validation guide for Pentair’s X-Flow Medical Shower & Tap range of filter products.

MTX says it is ‘extremely proud’ to have secured a place on the local authority procurement specialist LHC’s Modular Buildings (MB1) Framework.

Leading tap and shower manufacturer for healthcare, Bristan, has announced it will be developing ‘a ground-breaking white paper on the current state of infection control for water delivery products, based on the insight of industry stakeholders’.

‘As the world transitions from analogue to digital’, Legrand Assisted Living & Healthcare says it has been ‘leading the digitalisation agenda in technology-enabled care services (TECs)’ by discussing the implications of the switchover at six Digital Roadshow events held across the UK – ‘from Glasgow to London’

NHS hospitals across England made over £120 million from car park charges in 2015/2016, an investigation has found.

The Healthcare sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland – the UK’s largest food and support services firm – will be providing retail services to Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as part of a new 15-year contract worth an estimated £25.5 million overall.

German Chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel, and Tarek Al-Wazir, Minister of Economics, Energy, Transportation, and Regional Development of the state of Hesse, have opened the Viessmann Innovation Centre, the Viessmann Group’s new € 50 million technological research and development centre in Allendorf in Germany.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is offering up to £30,000 in funding for creative projects that engage the public with engineers and engineering.

Entries for the 2017 CIBSE ASHRAE Graduate of the Year and CIBSE Employer of the Year prizes, which celebrate ‘the industry’s best examples of young engineering talent’, and ‘employers’ strategies for recruiting, nurturing, and empowering young people’, must be received by 1 August.

Lanes Group has undertaken a major drainage surveying and cleaning programme as part of a £38 million refurbishment scheme at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

A ‘state-of-the-art’ healthcare facility has won first place in the public health and education category in the biennial Architectural Ironmongery Specification Awards, organised by the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Medical Air Technology (MAT) continues to grow, welcoming Will Evans to the team as Business Development Manager.

Intastop says its ‘next generation’ SECURAHinge Continuous Geared Hinge is designed to decrease maintenance, allowing heavy doors to be safely fitted, since weight is distributed across the hinge’s entirety, preventing buckling, which can result in faulty doors.

Proton Partners International has agreed a two-year collaborative research project with The University of Liverpool to enhance proton beam therapy (PBT) technology via a new measurement system, 3D Water Phantom, developed to further improve the accuracy of PBT treatment.

G4S has secured a major healthcare contract with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

The City and County of Swansea Council, in partnership with Abertawe Bro-Morgannwg University Health Board, has commissioned specialist healthcare advisors, IBI Group, to work on the feasibility of a new Wellness Centre in the city.

Kawneer architectural glazing systems were used on the UK’s nineteenth and largest Maggie’s cancer care centre.