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Beams winning battle for Waterloo
Chilled beam and fan coil-based air conditioning systems are both well-established means of effectively controlling the temperature, comfort, and air purity of the internal environment.
Can the estate be ‘an enabler’?
‘Estates as the enabler’ was the title of an interesting debate session on the morning of the second day of November’s Healthcare Estates conference, in which participants focussed on what part healthcare buildings and other ‘built assets’ would play in a future UK care landscape potentially quite different from that of today.
Labour of love yields new maternity unit
Birmingham’s City Hospital’s new maternity unit is an inspiring departure from conventional units. Contemporary design and the latest technology combine to give mothers a safe, yet relaxed, environment in which to give birth. HEJ reports.
Enhancing knowledge – improving safety
With the opening of a new £1.4 m training facility at its Charlton House head office site in Cheltenham, steam system specialist, Spirax Sarco, believes it is now in a better position than at any time in its history to offer specialist steam system training that will enable those operating and maintaining such equipment in environments such as hospital plant rooms to optimise its performance and efficiency, cut their energy bills and carbon footprint, and ensure the safety of their staff.
‘Endless integration possibilities’ offered
HEJ reports on the Wandsworth’s Group’s recent installation of a new Internet Protocol-based nurse call system at the PFI-funded and built Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Stars of the theatre show true colours
With surgical advances seeing hospitals and other healthcare facilities now undertaking an ever wide range of procedures, increasing emphasis is now being placed on the quality of the lighting installed in operating theatres, where ‘older’ technologies like halogen and xenon gas discharge are increasingly being superseded by LED.
Achievements are recognised in style
The contribution made by individual healthcare estates and engineering personnel both to the specialist field, and to helping to educate, develop, and encourage, their peers and colleagues, was recognised in style during November’s Healthcare Estates event in Manchester.
Portal provides access for carbon reduction
How the lessons learned from a concerted Marks & Spencer sustainability drive that was established, and subsequently enthusiastically championed by, the retailer’s then CEO and chairman, Sir Stuart Rose, could be translated to an NHS under fierce pressure to cut its own carbon footprint, was the subject of a morning keynote session at November’s Healthcare Estates 2011 conference in Manchester.
President stresses need for adaptability
IHEEM’s President, Paul Kingsmore, took the opportunity of his keynote address at November’s Healthcare Estates conference in Manchester to highlight some of the key changes in healthcare commissioning and delivery expected to result from the radical proposals set out in the Health and Social Care Bill, and to give his personal viewpoint on the implications for UK healthcare engineering and estate management personnel.
Wandsworth wins nurse call contract for £430 m Bristol Southmead
Healthcare technology specialist, The Wandsworth Group, has been awarded a contract worth over £1 million to design, manufacture, and install the state-of-the art nurse call system for the £430 million Bristol Southmead Hospital PFI scheme.
Plenty to look forward to in Manchester
Many HEJ readers will first see this issue as they pick up a copy at Healthcare Estates 2011, IHEEM’s flagship conference and exhibition in Manchester.
CEEQUAL scheme set to make its mark
According to AECOM, the provider of professional technical and management support services, there is now a growing desire among developers and regulators to see CEEQUAL, an environmental assessment methodology historically applied to civil engineering projects such as roads, bridges, and water treatment works, applied to all civil engineering projects, to improve and measure sustainability.
Endeavour delivers cancer care rewards
Tony Roger, project manager at building services contractor, Shepherd Engineering Services (SES), describes the successful delivery of the £30 million New Oncology Expansion project at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
The key to security is a balancing act
Grant Macdonald, managing director at supplier of mechanical and electronic door locks, Codelocks, examines some of the important issues for healthcare estates and facilities personnel considering how best to protect parts of a healthcare facility – large or small – given the need to minimise costs and not “over-specify” on security, while simultaneously ensuring that patients, staff, and hospital property, are safeguarded.
University hospitals – design excellence
Daniela Sorana, an Italian architect, and the holder of a PhD in architecture technology, argues that, with university hospitals playing an increasing role in the development of innovative clinical practice and biomedical innovation.
Getting it right from the ground up
According to international heating system manufacturer, Viessmann, it is not only new construction projects that can benefit from renewable heating systems.
Simpler radioactive wastewater processing
José Canga Rodríguez, key account manager, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, EnviroChemie, and Volker Luh, CEO of EnviroDTS, describe the development, and recent successful application, of a new technology for dealing safely and effectively with the radioactive “wastewater” generated by patients who have undergone radiotherapy in nuclear medicine facilities.
Expansion to allow ‘new model of care’
UK architecture firm, BMJ Architects, is well-known as a specialist in healthcare work, completing projects all over the UK – from whole hospital campuses to cancer care centres.
Paddington hospital has ‘world first’ in AV
Colin Dobbyne, director of OR1, describes OR Networks’ recent installation of a sophisticated new video communication and patient entertainment system in the intensive care unit at London’s St Mary’s Hospital, explaining how the “world first” equipment was designed and manufactured to meet the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s specific requirements.
MS facility will add crucial capacity
With around a half of all construction projects over budget or missing their completion date, (according to Construction Statistics Annual, 2009, Office of Public Sector Information), David Jupp, business development manager at Elliott Off-Site Building Solutions, looks at why an off-site solution was chosen for the new West of England Multiple Sclerosis Centre in Bradley Stoke, North Bristol. A
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Portal provides access for carbon reduction
How the lessons learned from a concerted Marks & Spencer sustainability drive that was established, and subsequently enthusiastically championed by, the retailer’s then CEO and chairman, Sir Stuart Rose, could be translated to an NHS under fierce pressure to cut its own carbon footprint, was the subject of a morning keynote session at November’s Healthcare Estates 2011 conference in Manchester.

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Revolutionising integral blind systems
Yorkshire-based Intaview has launched a new privacy and vision control system that utilises a twin-film concept “to provide a superior performance, and offer greater vision for privacy vision panels in office partitions, windows, doors, screens, and corridors”.