RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Trend Control Systems has developed a range of four ‘easy-to-install, and simple-to-use’ sub-meters designed to work with its building energy management systems (BEMS).

ASSA, part of ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions, ‘carefully balanced access and security’ when supplying products for small, gender-specific apartments at Bradley Woodlands Hospital, a 23-bed learning disability facility near Grimsby.

PURICORE’s RapidAER is described by the company as ‘a new concept in AER technology’ and has been designed to ensure reliability. Its small 0.5m2 footprint is ideal for the smallest of rooms and being a totally independent single chamber system it provides total flexibility.

Gent by Honeywell has supplied an aspirating smoke detection system to the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

Designed and built in the UK, C-TEC’s powerful touch-screen controlled ZFP addressable panel is fully compliant with EN54-2/4, and, the company says, ‘represents a major breakthrough in fire alarm technology, with its massive capability and flexible modular design’.

ADT Fire & Security has delivered an ‘intelligent’ fire detection and alarm system as part of a £15 million development of the new Mater Private Hospital in Cork, Ireland.

Hochiki Europe says it has developed a number of technologies that can prevent false fire alarms. Its optical smoke sensors feature its High Performance Chamber Technology, which minimises the differences in sensitivity experienced in flaming and smouldering fires.

A new register of qualified fire door installers is to be built as part of the legacy of last September’s ‘highly successful, cross-industry’ Fire Door Safety Week campaign by the British Woodworking Federation (BWF), BWF-CERTIFIRE Scheme, and Fire Door Inspector Scheme.

Fire Detectors’ Discovery fire products are providing life and property protection at the ‘new’ Royal London Hospital. The main contractor on the £1.1 billion PFI project, Skanska, selected Static Systems Group to design, supply, and install, the hospital’s highly complex fire system.

Sanco UK, an independent, Herefordshire-based call system provider that provides and supports call systems nationwide, says it can service and repair many different nurse call systems and handsets, and is a strong believer in ‘never throwing anything away’.

Fusion-IP Aspire, a new radio-based nurse call system from Static Systems Group (SSG), is fully compatible with other Static Systems equipment, and adds a wireless option to the evergrowing Fusion-IP range of nurse call solutions.

Wandsworth Group has installed its IPiN Ethernet-based nurse call system into a live environment within the Cardiac Ward, Accident & Emergency Unit, and Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) of South Tyneside District Hospital as part of a rolling upgrade.

Aid Call says wireless nurse call systems such as those it supplies ‘provide all the functionality and reliability of a hard-wired system, but with greater flexibility, and more powerful features and functionality’.

Medicare says its HTM series Nurse Call system has been designed both to be very easy to use, and to withstand the rigours of the hospital and care home market.

Abbey Court Independent Hospital, a purpose-built facility in Cheshire for people with dementia and other mental health needs, has installed C-TEC’s Quantec addressable call system.

Washroom solution experts, Franke Washroom Systems, also known as Franke Sissons, has added a comprehensive range of grab rail and Doc M product packs to its extensive line-up of commercial washroom products.

The organisers of Healthcare Estates 2013, Step Exhibitions, say this year’s attendance ‘continued the increases seen since the move to Manchester’, and included 401 attendees at the conference; and a record number at the Awards Dinner, of 435.

A combination of tighter budgets, increasing volumes of environmental legislation, and greater financial accountability, mean healthcare estate managers UK-wide are under growing pressure to save energy and money.

Bender UK says it ‘scored a huge hit’ at the Healthcare Estates 2013 conference and exhibition, with delegates and visitors crowding onto its stand to learn more about ATICS - the power changeover solution designed to the Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Level 2 standard (BS EN61508).

Visitors to the Starkstrom stand at this year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition were able to experience the company’s latest VisionOR integrated high definition video solution, including ‘cutting edge optical networks’.