RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

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

For Static Systems, this year’s Healthcare Estates event provided an opportunity to highlight its Fusion-IP ‘family’ of nurse call solutions.

Schneider Electric says its new StruxureWare for Healthcare software suite provides organisations with ‘a comprehensive view into their integrated healthcare facility’, enabling them to improve energy savings, infrastructure efficiency, patient safety, ‘and more’.

Airflow Developments says its new Duplexvent Multi Line range is the first fully customisable range of indoor and outdoor commercial MVHR (mechanical ventilation with heat recovery) units to achieve Passive House standards.

The UK’s healthcare sector spends more than £400 million every year on energy, although a large proportion of this energy is often wasted.

In a concerted effort to take the complexity out of choosing the most appropriate nurse call system, leading healthcare communication specialist, Static Systems Group, has categorised its Fusion-IP product range into three distinct sub-brands, simultaneously adding a wireless system for good measure.

Clever and innovative new design touches and cost-effective construction feature strongly in the development of Ventura, Static Systems’ latest bedhead services trunking system, shown for the first time at this month’s Healthcare Estates exhibition in Manchester.

Regina Kennedy, an architect and urbanist with a Master’s degree in healthcare facility planning and design, who is currently a programme manager at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the state of Qatar’s ‘premier’ non-profit healthcare provider, examines how, during the design process, the right principles can be applied to ensure that hospitals and other healthcare facilities ‘work’ for all user groups.

Armstrong International has supplied a 650 kW Digital-Flo heat exchanger package to a North London Hospital.

Established in 2000 to create Energy Services Performance Contracts (EPCs) and ESCo projects, Cynergin has since expanded to offer a full range of capital investment services for clients, funded by energy, carbon, and operational savings – all underwritten by a Cynergin performance guarantee.

With healthcare provider organisations today placing specific and stringent demands on taps, Woodwood says the ‘proven, safe, hard-wearing design’, and the excellent access for ‘simple, fast cleaning’, of its Ultra range of sensor taps are ‘indispensable’.

Michell’s MDM300 portable dew-point hygrometer takes high-speed measurements of moisture in compressed air systems used for surgical instruments and breathing air, ‘in spotchecks’, to ensure safety in hospitals.

Three ‘innovative new product ranges’ which the company says will ‘strengthen its market leading-position’ in the design and manufacture of anti-ligature fittings for mental healthcare settings, will be shown by Primera:

Enersol Flomar, established 30 years ago to provide bespoke services in steam production, has developed a range of advanced boiler controls ‘to respond to the demands of ever-increasing fuel costs, and the need to reduce harmful emissions’.

Squiggle Glass is a magnetic or nonmagnetic glass panel, ‘easy to write on, and easy to clean with the supplied magnetic eraser’, described as ‘a lifetime solution for visual presentation and information using any colours and size’.

With over 20 years’ experience, Finning is a leading energy performance contract (EPC) solutions provider in power generation – ‘whether the requirement is for high reliability standby power, high efficiency CHP, or a combination of both’.

David Diggle a director of national planning and urban consultancy, Turley Associates – which is also exhibiting – will address delegates at the IHEEM conference on ‘How to achieve best value for surplus NHS estate, and how to positively engage with the planning system’.

Capita claims to be ‘the UK’s leading delivery partner for real estate and infrastructure solutions across the health sector’.

Control room furniture manufacturer, Winsted Europe & Middle East, will show its new EnVision command console.

Credit Card Keys describes itself as ‘a specialist in developing, manufacturing, and supplying, key storage systems and security products’.