FEATURE ARTICLES

An expert look at the key changes within the DH’s recently updated decontamination guidance for surgical instruments and endoscopes in HTM 01-01 and HTM 01-06.

Last month’s IHEEM Awards Dinner in Manchester recognised innovation, flair, and expertise, in areas ranging from carbon saving to product design and architecture.

Healthcare Estates 2016 saw the launch of a new blueprint for Emergency Department Repeatable Rooms, as an architect member of the Repeatable Rooms ‘Core Team’ explains.

A Vancouver architect describes the highly positive impact of a new emergency department at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital in British Columbia in Canada.

A look at a major wayfinding and signage project being undertaken at Australia’s Royal Perth Hospital, in an article first published in The Australian Hospital Engineer.

At Healthcare Estates 2016, the DH’s director-general of Finance gave a candid assessment of the current state of NHS finances, and presented his view on how the healthcare estates and facilities community can contribute effectively to the drive to ‘constrain cost growth’.

A system that uses electrochemical activation to provide ‘ongoing and consistent disinfection’ of a healthcare facility’s water system described.

Low temperature sterilisation could meet the conflicting demands of tougher infection control guidelines and ever more delicate medical devices.

With continuing pressures on A&E Departments, a US expert examines how design teams might re-think configurations to add capacity.

Standby generator users can amortise their outlay on these substantial pieces of equipment and, in the process, cut their overall electricity costs.

Two expert writers highlight some of the problems with existing wording and phraseology in guidance and standards documents.

A bedstacker designed to stop empty beds being left in hospital corridors is the latest innovation from a Salisbury Trust.

An architect explains some of the key stages of actually implementing and using BIM.

Planning and managing electrical compliance in line with BS7671 can be challenging, but there are systems available to help.

Two academics discuss the growing potential for smart sensor technology to monitor and detect airborne infection in hospitals

Claire Hennessy, head of Operational Estates and Facilities Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HEJ – May 2016), describes a major infrastructure project currently ongoing at Oxford’s John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals.

Maintaining ‘sufficient and safe’ electrical supplies, and the role of the Authorised Person.

A focus on the Building Engineering Services Association’s SFG20 maintenance standard.

As part of a continuing series on successful women engineers, HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports on his recent discussion with Benita Mehra, CEng MIET MSC MBA FWES FIHEEM.

One of the UK’s leading human waste disposal equipment manufacturers explains what makes its systems ‘unique’, and how its engineering expertise is backed by first-class service.