RECENT NEWS

An ‘eclectic mix’ of 45 professionals were recently among the first visitors to Static Systems’ new Design & Innovation Centre (D&IC), which includes a full scale ‘mock-up’ of the ProCure21+ repeatable rooms Four-Bed Multi-Bed Bay design (HEJ – October 2015).

Trend Control Systems has extended its control system components with a new range of pressure independent control valves (PICVs) designed to fully optimise the control of thermal comfort and provide significant energy savings.

Serco has secured a five-year, £85 m extension to its contract at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) to provide a range of facility management services.

Community Health Partnerships (CHP) has appointed two new investment directors to manage CHP investments through the LIFT Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme and wider investment opportunities.

Last month’s HEJ included an editorial show preview on this month’s Healthcare Estates 2015 conference, exhibition, and dinner, at Manchester Central.

Guldmann UK has recently completed the installation of its GH1F and GH3 patient hoists at the new 270-bed Alder Hey in the Park children’s hospital (HEJ – September 2015), expected to be one of Europe’s busiest and most advanced children’s healthcare facilities.

Bender UK has provided the IPS and UPS critical power network and supplied and installed touchscreen control panels, and Steris LED theatre lighting and pendants, for a new, second operating theatre in the maternity unit at Colchester General Hospital.

A first ever ‘system-wide’ report from the health sector in England has shown that while progress is being made to prepare organisations and communities for climate change’s effects and its impacts on health, ‘further support should be given to embed climate change and sustainability into local thinking and decision making, enhanced by a sound platform of information from nationally-collated information and intelligence’.

A standard integral blind system with the ability to tilt the slats from open to close, and to lift or raise the internal blinds for maximum exposure, has been selected for the new £10 m Sudbury Community Health Centre, one of Suffolk’s biggest such facilities.

Potential participants and collaborators are being sought for a research project that will examine the timing and scheduling of hospital life, to identify potential opportunities for reducing overall energy and mobility demand in hospitals.

Contour, the designer and manufacturer of low surface temperature (LST) radiators and guards, has introduced new ‘round top’ panel radiators, which ‘provide an ideal choice for those seeking to reduce energy waste and also save on space’.

Recognising that hybrid and integrated theatres necessitate a ‘less cluttered, more open-plan theatre’ design, with fewer obstructions in the path of imaging or laparoscopic equipment, MAT (Medical Air Technology) has introduced its new self-contained DYNAMIC screenless ultraclean ventilation (UCV) canopy.

The Register of Clinical Technologists (RCT), which is jointly managed by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), the Association of Renal Technologists (ART) and IHEEM, has recently been accredited under the Accredited Registers programme.

London’s St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, through its FM company, Skanska, has contracted with Clarke Energy to install a combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP) plant powered by a Jenbacher gas engine from GE Power & Water.

Varied conference topics discussed at the CIBSE Building Performance Conference and Exhibition next month at London’s QEII Exhibition Centre.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s bestknown high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated last month, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell.

Construction and engineering company, MTX, has recently been awarded the contract to deliver a twin operating theatre suite, complete with a 4-bed first stage, and two 8-bed second stage, recovery units, at Luton and Dunstable Hospital for Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

ECEX has appointed Steve Bell as manager for the business’s Air Intake Screens arm.

As part of a current ongoing £90 m redevelopment of the Glan Clwyd Hospital in Rhyl, North Wales, the healthcare facility has seen an extensive upgrade to LED examination lighting.

Amid increasing reports that waste fires now account for a growing proportion of public fires. Taylor, a manufacturer of four-wheeled galvanised steel bins, has developed a ‘fire-proof’ lid.