RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) is the UK’s largest specialist Institute for the healthcare estates sector.

At this year’s show, provider of alarm and communication systems for healthcare environments, Static Systems, will offer the chance to discuss its Anti-vandal Manual Call Point Mounting Box (pictured), improved following feedback from the 2014 DIMH event and subsequent discussions with specialist groups.

The Water Management Society (WMSoc) has launched a new training course for 2015, which covers the background to, causes of, and control aspects of, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Where hot water is required over several floors for handwashing or showering, centralised systems may struggle to deliver water quickly and efficiently to more remote points of use.

Plumbing and heating solutions specialist, Pegler Yorkshire, has launched a website which it says ‘offers much more than general product or technical data – it centres around the individual requirements of specifiers and installers, and assists them in finding solutions for prevailing industry issues’.

Mira Showers has enhanced its popular Advance electric shower range with what it says is the market’s only shower to offer wireless pairing to a waste water pump.

Earlier this year, Brookfield Multiplex handed over the new South Glasgow Hospitals project to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Reliance Water Controls’ (RWC) new Ausimix Compact range of thermostatic mixing valves are described as ‘high performance TMVs with TMV2 and TMV3 approval, made from nickel-plated DZR brass, with high quality internal fittings for durability and longevity’.

A new bath filler designed to further aid users ‘in the complex task of ensuring optimum water temperature and infection control’ has been launched by Bristan.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is commonly found in water pipes, and is generally tolerated by healthy people, but poses particular risks for or vulnerable individuals who may be immunocompromised within hospitals, such as the elderly, cancer patients, people in burns units, and infants.

Cistermiser, experts in water-efficient washroom systems, including infrared taps and flush control products, will exhibit on stand 1403 at The Facilities Show, at ExCel London, from 16-18 June this year.

Franke Sissons, which supplies modern washroom systems, has headed ‘a hardhitting parliamentary discussion’ in Westminster to outline ‘the lack of surveillance for genuine CE marking required by UK law’ on products fitted in commercial buildings.

With the products having ‘proven their resilience and reliability in some of the world’s most testing environments’, Altro has increased the warranty, sustained slip resistance, and life expectancy, on its 2.5 mm safety flooring ranges.

Pineapple Contracts’ new Ryno dining and lounge furniture products ‘combine exciting modern design, high levels of safety, and cutting-edge British manufacturing’.

Working with key stakeholders from the Trust, and the interior design team at Gilling Dod Architects, Teal has equipped the new Sid Watkins Building, part of the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, with ‘innovative and bold’ furniture to create ‘an exciting first impression wow factor’.

Rubber flooring from nora systems that won both a Building Better Healthcare Award 2014 and an Architects’ Journal Award the same year – and selected in this instance particularly for its high durability and hygienic properties – has been installed in the new Wokingham Medical Centre.

David Bailey Furniture Systems has introduced a new mobile writing desk – which can be used by nurses and other hospital ward staff to take notes at patients’ bedsides – to its popular Healthline range of fitted healthcare furniture.

Polyflor safety flooring has helped create beautiful, homely interiors for the Winchcombe Place care home in Newbury.

Baxi-SenerTec says specifiers ‘under increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions’ are being given ‘a new roadmap’ for generating their own electricity, as the CHP specialist unveils a new offering developed in partnership with a major automotive manufacturer.

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has officially opened its new CHP energy centre at York Hospital with a ribbon cutting by its chief executive, Patrick Crowley (pictured, right), who was then presented with a plaque by Ian Whitelock (left), Vital Energi’s joint MD.