RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Demolishing a Victorian hospital and designing a £32 million health centre in its place would appear to present the architect with a blank canvas.

Eastwood Park’s new training calendar for 2014-2015 includes three new City & Guilds nationally-recognised qualifications to assist staff development for those working in the area of decontamination.

Whitecroft Lighting says its DTFN/A lighting system ‘offers all the features to satisfy the infection control requirements of theatres and sterile recovery areas, where IP65/54 luminaires are required throughout’.

Starkstrom says its S-equiP product range is ‘packed full of infection-fighting innovations’, to ensure operating rooms or critical care areas remain a ‘bacteria and virusunfriendly’ zone..

Haigh says its specialist macerator range works with all leading pulp suppliers, and addresses key potential user challenges, such as space constraints, energy consumption, speed, and reliability.

Howorth’s Biotechnology division was established ‘to service ever-increasing demand for effective, safe, state-of-the-art vapour-phase fumigation systems, whether to control healthcareassociated infections, or eradicate microorganisms’.

A study at a South of England hospital commissioned by low surface temperature (LST) radiator guard specialist, Contour Casings, has compared the levels and diversity of bacteria present on modern LST radiator covers with full access for cleaning, and an antimicrobial coating, with those on a ‘traditional’ fixed unit, with no internal access, and no antimicrobial protection.

TECcare has designed two specialist misting systems, ‘ideal’ for terminal cleans, that ‘provide rapid, safe, and effective, total room disinfection at an affordable price’.

Polegate, Sussex-headquartered System Hygienics is a specialist in cleaning ventilation and kitchen extract ductwork.

Medical Gas Services says its ABI (Anti Bacterial Impregnated) cylinder management range – of cylinder cradles and trolleys – has proven ‘very popular’ since its January 2013 launch, and, ‘in celebration’, is offering ‘20 per cent off’ across the whole ABI range for the rest of February.

No matter how efficiently hospital staff implement infection control protocols, identifying the source of an infection can be complex, and ‘take days’.

Following what the organisers, UBM Live, say are ‘high levels of demand for a London energy show’, Energy & Environment Expo (formerly Energy Solutions Expo) will re-launch this year at ExCel London from 17–19 June.

Radiator manufacturer, Stelrad, says its two CPD programmes are now available online. The initial seminar offered to architects explains the technical differences between serial and parallel feed radiators, highlighting how new serial feed technology ‘helps reduce fuel costs and a property’s carbon footprint’.

Dunphy’s new Internet-based, remote energy centre monitoring system, DunphyDelta, reportedly eliminates the need for new software, cabling, USBs, or extra on-site servers.

An 850 kWe CHP system supplied by ENER-G to Salisbury District Hospital, which the cogeneration specialist is also maintaining and servicing, is reducing CO2 emissions at the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust while releasing annual cash savings of over £240,000.

Effective monitoring of power quality and usage in critical medical facilities can reduce costs and avoid availability-of-supply issues caused by socalled ‘dirty’ power systems suffering interference.

Barts Health NHS Trust has chosen Skanska to deliver a waste management programme designed to save money and improve compliance across its estate.

St George’s Hospital, Tooting, is saving £45,000 annually after upgrading the heating and hot water systems in one of its plant rooms to Spirax EasiHeat plate heat exchanger packages.

The heat output of Capstone MicroTurbines can be used to both heat and air condition a healthcare facility via absorption cooling, says Turner EPS, official UK distributor for Capstone Turbine Corporation.

Powertecnique has gained accreditation for five UPS (uninterruptible power supply) units from its eKasar range from the Government’s Energy Technology List (ETL) through the Carbon Trust, meaning customers may claim additional tax relief through enhanced capital allowances when purchasing the equipment.