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Static Systems’ Fusion-IP healthcare communication system was on show at HefmA 2013, along with ‘Fusion-Centra’ the company’s recently introduced fire alarm maintenance software.

Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC), which has served the NHS for over 15 years, says those familiar with its services will be aware that it is now ‘moving away from providing software solutions in a more strategic direction to focus on compliance and the demands placed on healthcare FM professionals to meet these stringent conditions’.

Cooling and heating temperature control specialist, ICS Cool Energy, is advising healthcare facilities to invest in adiabatic coolers rather than industrial cooling towers, claiming the former ‘eliminate the risk of Legionella contamination threat, and have a third of the running costs’.

A new ‘anti-Pseudomonas outlet’, and improved thermostatic sequential lever and proximity mixers, have been added to Armitage Shanks’ Markwik 21 offering.

Atus-Commander is a new IP-based management platform for messaging and personal security.

Surgeons at Birmingham Children’s Hospital have carried out over 1,000 operations in their new state-of-the art laparoscopic theatre, the city’s first of its kind, since it opened in March 2012.

As a new European safety standard for power-operated doorsets comes into force, GEZE UK claims to be the first company to offer British architects a CPD seminar explaining the implications of EN 16005.

When considering patient entertainment and information, Airwave Healthcare says it ‘has all the bases covered’, both to improve the patient experience, and to ‘deliver the vision’ of both Trusts and local hospitals.

Real Asset Management (RAM) will present its complete helpdesk and maintenance management solution – designed specifically for estates departments in NHS Trusts – on Stand 11 at HefmA 2013.

The Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC), which has served the NHS for over 15 years, is keen to emphasise to those unaware of its recent change of strategic direction, that it is ‘moving away from providing software solutions to focus on compliance, and the demands placed on healthcare facilities management professionals to meet these stringent conditions’.

Static Systems Group (SSG) says it will show, on Stand 9 at this month’s HefmA 2013 event, the flexibility of its Fusion-IP healthcare communication system and Modus headwall solutions.

Wilo’s new Wilo-Stratos GIGA, just launched in the UK, is said to be the first high efficiency glanded pump – and is targeted specifically at the building services and industry sectors.

According to Hochiki Europe, 2013 is set to be’ a year of significant change’ for fire detection manufacturers, in the way their products and systems are designed, produced, and used – thanks to the introduction of EN 54-23:2010, a pan-European standard focusing on visual alarm devices (VADs).

Workflow Dynamics, a division of The Parking Shop, provides back office services for companies wanting to manage their own permits and parking enforcement ‘on the ground’, but ‘without the cost and aggravation of managing the process’.

Over the past 12 months the Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC) says it has undergone the biggest restructure in its 17-year history, and will introduce several products over the next few months, all supported by a new image, new website, and new ways for stakeholders to communicate with, and receive updates from it.

Designer and manufacturer of clinical waste bins, Wybone, will show a selection of products, including its ‘revolutionary’ Capsule hospital waste bin.

An array of products for emergency solutions, including evacuation chairs designed to enable the mobility-impaired to descend staircases easily during an emergency, will be shown by emergency escape equipment specialist, Evac+Chair International.

Dalkia, which claims to save 7.5 million tonnes of CO2 for customers annually, will show ‘the latest solutions for reducing carbon emissions from hospitals’.

Norland, a hard services-led facilities maintenance and support services specialist for the built environment, says that, having identified healthcare as ‘a key vertical market with real growth opportunities’, it is working in partnership with some of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts and acute hospitals across the UK.