Busy schedule for Welsh branch

Further details will be announced on the IHEEM website, www.iheem.org.uk as soon as available. For more information telephone Ann Konsbruck, event manager: 029 2031 5512; e-mail: ann.konsbruck@whe.wales.nhs.uk The branch has also released details of other events taking place over the next few months, beginning with a presentation, being staged jointly with the Society of Operations Engineers South Wales Regional Group at the Express by Holiday Inn, off Junction 28 of the M4, on 18 November, entitled “Alternative fuels – hydrogen: the fuel of the future”. Guest speaker will be Professor Richard Dinsdale of the Sustainable Environment Research Centre, University of Glamorgan. Start time is 7.00 p.m. for 7.15 p.m.

For details contact branch chairman Graham Jones. T: 01633 213160. A one-day CPD-accredited “Fire alarms in healthcare” seminar, at the Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, on 20 November, will see speakers including Robert Thilthorpe of the Fire Industry Association, Anthony Pitcher, senior fire safety advisor, Welsh Health Estates, Mike Fulton of Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust, and a CFOA representative from the Fire and Rescue Service, discuss topics including the latest fire alarm and fire prevention technology, fire legislation, and the frequency of “false alarms”. Attendance costs £35 per person. For more information contact Ann Konsbruck, as above.

The branch will also be holding a oneday seminar on “energy for sustainable buildings” during January – details to follow, while its AGM will be held on 26 February, at Welsh Health Estates, Bevan House Cardiff, beginning at 5.15 pm, with a light buffet from 4.45 pm. For more details contact Graham Jones (as above).