RECENT NEWS

VINCI Park UK, the ‘bespoke parking solutions provider’, has changed its name to Indigo.

Richard Kahn, CEO of premium walling and flooring manufacturer, Altro, has announced the acquisition of Debolon, a premium vinyl flooring manufacturer based in Dessau, Germany.

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

How technologies such as Wi-Fi, GPS, RFID, and Bluetooth LE are enhancing wayfinding in healthcare facilities.

Healthcare storage solution specialist, Medstor, says it is mid-way through a major project forming part of the redevelopment of the Royal Victoria, Belfast, one of four linked hospitals on Northern Ireland’s largest hospital complex.

Set in a site of special scientific interest, the Patricia Thompson Building for Maggie’s Cancer Centre in Oxford has been designed around a treehouse concept.

Work has begun on what will be the UK’s first high beam proton beam therapy cancer treatment centre – at Celtic Springs Business Park in Newport, South Wales.

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.