RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Bristan’s new Opac bar shower – ‘designed to aid commercial users in the complex task of ensuring optimum water temperature and infection control’ – features inbuilt TMV 3 control, and an automatic thermostatic shut-off, in the event of hot or cold water supply failure.

The recently opened Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre in Harrogate – a newly-built cancer support and information centre (HEJ – January 2015) – features antimicrobial copper touch surfaces.

Howorth’s Biotechnology Division provides ‘a range of equipment that addresses everincreasing market demands for effective, safe, state-of-the-art patient protection systems’.

With soiled laundry in healthcare facilities potentially a source of infection spread, and, the company claims, ‘many nosocomial infections traceable back to poor hygiene standards in the processing of contaminated laundry’, Miele Professional’s PW 6163, PW 6243, and PW 6323 barrier machines reportedly ‘provide the ideal solution’ for processing soiled and potentially infected laundry.

Installation of ‘one of the world’s most advanced’ laminar clean airflow canopies has helped an operating theatre at a multi-million pound healthcare facility ‘meet the highest industry standards for infection control’.

A guide to using variable-speed drives and motors in healthcare premises to help reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint is now available from ABB.

Hamworthy Heating has developed a new CIBSE-accredited CPD presentation examining how to save energy in commercial heating and hot water projects, and ‘the best way to quantify those savings from the whole-life perspective’.

ABEC says its new Focus Energy ‘package’ takes a fresh approach to standard BEMS planned maintenance ‘using a combination of remote and on-site control of building management systems’.

A recently opened, ‘newly revamped’ £3.1 m energy centre at Cheltenham General Hospital designed and installed by Vital Energi, which will operate and maintain it under a guaranteed Energy Performance Contract for the next 18 years, will save Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over £10 million, and reduce carbon emissions by over 32,000 tonnes over the contact term.

Recognising the need to reduce its lighting energy spend and maintain good illumination in its external car parking areas, Spire Healthcare invited Future Energy Solutions (FES) to undertake a comprehensive feasibility study to scope the objectives and determine the optimal LED lighting and commercial solution.

Finning Power Systems (Finning) is to deliver the new 11 kV emergency electrical services standby generator system for Guy’s Hospital in London.

The Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives for water heaters and hot water storage tanks come into force on September 26 this year, and will ensure that only the most efficient water heaters are being manufactured, specified, sold, and installed, says Jonathan Tedstone, category manager for Andrews Water Heaters (pictured).

A Trend 963 Supervisor graphical user interface that brings together information from any one of the Trust’s 32 locations is helping London’s Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust quickly identify and qualify any problems before dispatching an engineer – via the ability to monitor, in real time, the operation of building engineering services plant.

Medical facilities are under increased pressure to ensure availability of critical systems, and protect their electrical infrastructure, while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. According to Bender UK, ‘the impact of complex system interactions such as flicker, transients, and harmonic components, is felt in the form of faults, failures and, in the worst case, irreparable damage to equipment and systems’.

A new White Paper from Spirax Sarco is designed to ‘show how hospitals and healthcare institutions can improve the energy efficiency of their steam systems, reduce risk, and cut emissions in order to help meet NHS targets’.

Bristan has launched a ‘fully comprehensive, easy-to-maintain’ Approved ‘DocM’ WC pack, complete with TMV 3 basin mixer taps, suitable for commercial washroom facilities designed for people with disabilities.

L8guard is a ‘cost-effective and simple to-use’ software system specifically designed to solve the problems of low use water outlet flushing across large and changing estates – typically NHS Trusts, local authorities, and universities.

A new thermostatic mixing valve range that ‘greatly simplifies valve selection, while simultaneously enhancing performance’, has been unveiled by Pegler Yorkshire. ‘Traditionally’, the company has manufactured anti-scald valves for the healthcare market (Type 3) and separate valves for general and domestic applications (Type 2). The new, ‘more compact’, Pegler PEG402 valves meet the requirements of BS and EN standards, are WRAS approved, and boast the BuildCert certificate for both TMV3 and TMV2 schemes.

Keraflo, manufacturer of ‘Aylesbury’ float valves and tank management systems, has launched an enhanced version of its digital water tank control system, Tanktronic.

Legipid is a ‘unique’ Legionella test developed by Biotica, and exclusively distributed by Veras Europe, that has been fully validated by the international standards agency, AOAC, against ISO 11731, and which is said to be suitable for both high volume laboratory use, and ‘for single tests in the field’.