Interviews
Health Estate Journal speaks to Matt de Frece, Head of Sales at Power Control
At Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor, Niamh Marriott, spoke with Matt de Frece, Head of Sales at Power Control, about the critical role of uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and isolated power supply (IPS) for hospitals and healthcare facilities. He discusses the launch of a modular UPS, the benefits for site sustainability, the latest HTM guidance, and why navigating budget pressures doesn’t stop him from believing that working in this industry really can, and does, make a difference.
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Health Estate Journal speaks to Tim Checketts, Commercial Director at Bender
HEJ Editor, Niamh Marriott, caught up with Tim Checketts, Commercial Director at Bender, during Healthcare Estates 2025 to hear why he chose to join the healthcare sector. He explains how energy efficiency can be improved across power networks, explores the technologies driving sustainable change, and highlights how better access to data can help estates teams optimise operations today and in the future.
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Health Estate Journal speaks to David Baker, Business Development Manager at Rock Compliance
During Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor Niamh Marriott, spoke with David Baker, Business Development Manager at Rock Compliance, to talk about the barriers to access across the healthcare system and the importance of keeping patient care at the forefront. He outlines how informed decision-making and innovation-led technologies, such as remote monitoring systems, are helping Rock Compliance to deliver sustainable change.
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Health Estate Journal speaks to Simon Adamson, President Elect of IHEEM
At Healthcare Estates 2025, Niamh Marriott, HEJ Editor, caught up with Simon Adamson, Director of Estates, Facilities and Capital at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, to discuss his journey to become IHEEM President Elect. He reflects on balancing maintenance backlogs with new hospital developments, the benefits of combining innovation, investment, and collaboration, and how IHEEM supports its members in addressing infrastructure, funding, and sustainability challenges.
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Health Estate Journal speaks to Constance Hales, Sales Director at AQUATOOLS
At Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor, Niamh Marriott, spoke with Constance Hales, Sales Director at Aquatools, on what keeps her passionate about the healthcare industry. She discusses the latest product range on show at the event, the science behind filtration technology, and why staff retention remains one of the sector’s biggest challenges – as well as the steps being taken to address it.
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Health Estate Journal speaks to Mike Dunne, Technical Director - Buildings at Stantec
At Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor, Niamh Marriott, joined Mike Dunne, Authorising Engineer for Ventilation and Technical Director for Buildings at Stantec, to examine the industry’s pressing challenges and opportunities. He highlights early engagement as crucial and says that, although there are many positive moves being made in terms of sustainability, the growing maintenance backlog is a concern. He also emphasises how we can encourage and attract more young people and women into the sector.
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Health Estate Journal speaks to Jim Howlett, Business Development Manager at RenEnergy
At Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor Niamh Marriott spoke with Jim Howlett, Business Development Manager at RenEnergy UK, about sustainability in healthcare, and the benefits, and growing interest, of solar power. He explains how solar power can help hospitals cut costs while reducing carbon emissions, shares insights from four healthcare sites the company is working with, and outlines the progress being made towards Net Zero targets.
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Health Estate Journal speaks to Stewart Warwick, INFORM Product Manager at KWC DVS
Niamh Marriott, HEJ Editor, spoke to Stewart Warwick WMSoc and INFORM Product Manager at KWC DVS, at Healthcare Estates 2025, to hear all about the current challenges facing the industry and the potential solutions to address them. He explains about their new intelligent cloud-based water management system and says that knowledge, data, and information is vital to help organisations make informed decisions. He talks about finding the balance between safety, sustainability and cost efficiency.
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Embedding a fire safety culture and awareness across the NHS
HEJ’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, met up with Maz Daoud, Head of Fire Safety at NHS England, to talk through some of the key current fire safety-related issues for he and his team, and for the personnel charged with minimising fire risk, and ensuring compliance with regulations and guidance, at healthcare facilities across the NHS. A key priority, he stressed, is ensuring that all relevant staff are adequately trained, both in the correct preventative procedures and practices, and in what to do should a fire occur.
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MMC’s benefits especially clear in fast-track schemes
HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, interviewed David Hartley, MD of MTX – one of the UK’s leading exponents of healthcare MMC, at this year’s Healthcare Estates, discussing both some of MTX’s most notable recent MMC healthcare project successes, and why an increasing number of NHS clients now favour this form of construction.
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Increasingly complex power demands require a resilient supply
Today’s healthcare facilities have increasingly complex, and equally diverse, electrical power requirements, and indeed a reliable and continuous electrical supply is critical both to ensuring uninterrupted clinical activity, and to keeping plant and equipment running optimally. HEJ’s Editor, Jonathan Baillie, discusses with Graeme Tucker of Power Control
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Valve technology and intelligent pipe routing help keep water safe and hygienic
At Healthcare Estates 2024 in Manchester, Kemper was particularly keen to talk to visitors about its Hygiene System KHS, which uses ‘innovative valve technology and intelligent pipe routing’ to maintain continuous water flow and prevent stagnation, and the resulting impairment of drinking water quality, and its Multi-Therm product – ‘a solution for wireless, digital hot water circulation systems’. HEJ’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, met with General Manager, Matt Camm, to find out more about these products, and other recent technology developments at a business first established in Germany in 1864.
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Medical gas specialist’s renewed sustainability drive
HEJ Editor, Jonathan Baillie, met up at this year’s Healthcare Estates event in Manchester with Paul Owen of Beacon Medaes, the company’s Sustainable Solution Sales Manager, to discover more, and to hear about an exciting new addition to the company’s clinical product range.
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Interview with IHEEM’s President Elect, Nigel Keery
At this year’s Healthcare Estates, Jonathan Baillie, caught up in Manchester with IHEEM’s new President, Nigel Keery OBE, who in his ‘day job’ is Head of Estates Operations at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
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Interview with IHEEM’s outgoing President, Alison Ryan
Alison reflected on a busy and interesting two years as the Institute’s first female President. Perhaps most notably, she has made a considerable impact in championing careers for women in engineering, and on the equality and diversity agenda, and has also undertaken valuable STEM work in schools and colleges to encourage young people into healthcare engineering and estate management careers when they leave school.
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