As part of an ‘ongoing, flourishing relationship’ with Spire Healthcare, Howorth Air Technology recently refurbished and upgraded three operating theatres at the Spire Manchester Hospital, as part of a larger project by construction, facilities management, and engineering services company, CFES.
Howorth had to work within an operational theatre department, with the hospital’s three other theatres in constant use. The company was brought in to upgrade general theatres 2 and 3, and replace the existing ultraclean ventilation canopy in theatre 1 – a traditional Howorth Exflow that had served the hospital well for several years – with a new Howorth Exflow Evolution screenless canopy. It also fitted all three theatres with new touchscreen theatre panels, LED operating lights, new medical gas pendants, and IPS/UPS systems, plus new ceilings and vinyl flooring. Designed to cater for increasingly limited theatre space, the Exflow Evolution retains the basic construction of Howorth’s existing models but, via ‘innovative engineering’ at the air discharge, obviates the need for ‘traditional’ partial walls, remote fans, or cooling coils.
