According to Casey Wells, marketing manager at Trend Controls, and a regular exhibitor at Healthcare Estates, “Healthcare Estates 2012 was certainly a success for us. This event gives us a welcome opportunity to meet end users and healthcare professionals to discuss the requirements and challenges facing this marketplace”.
Trend was able to demonstrate to visitors ‘that 84 per cent of a healthcare estate’s energy consumption can be controlled by using a building energy management system (BEMS).
The company said: “Many buildings already have a BEMS installed, and Trend’s experts were able to explain how, in a time of tighter budgets, environmental legislation, and the need for greater financial accountability, saving energy and money could be within easy reach.”
Trend also showcased its ‘latest innovations’, including a working demonstration of Trend Energy Manager – ‘a powerful energy monitoring package that is easy to use and which can be installed on a healthcare estate’s own server’. Using meter readings and other variables logged by the BEMS, it provides automatic reporting and allows rapid diagnosis of energy overuse.
In addition, in the Health Estate Journal Product Showcase area Trend hosted a well- attended case study-based presentation titled ‘Developments in the Control of Naturally Ventilated Healthcare Buildings’, which addressed ‘the latest intelligent window control package that can be integrated within a BEMS to maximise the benefits of natural ventilation’.
