RECENT PRODUCT NEWS
New ‘essential training’ for FM managers
Training establishment, Eastwood Park, says that a ‘unique’ new course called Essentials for Estates will ‘deliver just that’ – an opportunity for estates and facilities managers, and those aspiring to the role, to ‘improve their existing core skills, as well as gain new tools and guidance to enable them to operate more effectively in today’s challenging and changing healthcare environment’.
Why warranties ‘do not tell the whole story’
With healthcare estate budgets’ being squeezed ever tighter’, there is ‘no margin for error’ when it comes to making purchasing decisions, according to specialist in fire detection and alarm systems, Hochiki Europe.
Access control system impresses French hospital
An ongoing upgrade of security at the CHU Annonay Hospital in France’s Rhône- Alpes region has seen the hospital install Ingersoll Rand’s PegaSys electronic access control system to cover 64 doors, three buildings, and four car parks.
Fire detection ‘industry first’
ADT Fire & Security says its latest fire detection solution innovation, Generation 6 Detection Technology, offers ‘unique functionality and additional benefits’ to provide speedier installation, more efficient programming, and ‘a superb detector lifespan between service changes’.
Unobtrusive security shutters
Charter Specialist Security’s Charter- Integr8 security shutters are protecting North Lincolnshire’s newest health and social care facility – the Ironstone Centre in Scunthorpe.
Easier showering for the less mobile
Impey Showers has unveiled its latest showering technology for those with mobility issues. Its Impey Freedom air-assisted doors incorporate a ‘unique’ air-assisted spring mechanism that lifts the doors clear off the ground at the press of a lever.
‘Fully integrated’ theatre solution
S-equiP is the new name for Starkstrom’s fully integrated operating theatre equipment ‘solution’. The company says that, as sole supplier, it can ‘guarantee full and faultless communication between all the products which form the ‘solution’.
Medical gas system’s ‘increased functionality’
BeaconMedæs has launched ‘the second generation’ (Mk 2 variants) of its Medipoint medical gas alarms. The Medipoint 26 is specifically designed to monitor departmental gas pressure of up to six gases under ‘normal’, ‘high pressure’, and ‘low pressure’, conditions.
Door strikes compatible with lockcases
The ‘popular’ range of Universal electric strikes from ASSA, part of ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions, is now fully compatible with its most popular lockcase.
Doors not to mess with
Fitzpatrick says that, ‘for buildings that demand the highest security and protection’, architects and specifiers should ‘look no further’ than its ‘Yobstopper’ doorset, which, with steel bindings, steel hinges, and angle gap guards, is ‘a door not to contend with’.
Even more in control
Trend Control Systems has launched the first two models in ‘a new generation’ of building energy management system (BEMS) controllers. Although small, the Trend IQ411 (pictured) and IQ412 reportedly offer ‘advanced capabilities not found on any other building services controller, even much larger ones’.
Tough,waterproof, antibacterial board
Sealwise WCB is a new type of ‘incredibly tough, waterprooffor- life’ board, which ‘looks like top-of-the range melaminefaced plywood or faced MDF, but which is actually made of PVC’, and can be supplied with fully integrated antibacterial properties.
Water supply management key to safety, says Horne
Designer, developer, and manufacturer of thermostatic mixing and temperature control valves, Horne Engineering, says that waterborne bacteria are ‘ubiquitous’, and argues that it is thus ‘arguably impossible’ to completely eradicate them from hospital water supplies.
Leading the way in safe evacuation
The events at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital in 2008 offered a vivid reminder of the life safety implications of a serious hospital fire.
Medical gas system’s ‘increased functionality’
BeaconMedæs has launched ‘the second generation’ (Mk 2 variants) of its Medipoint medical gas alarms.
True collaboration in action
In a contract worth almost £1 million, Static Systems Group (SSG) is installing integrated systems comprising nurse call, staff attack, and bedhead trunking, at the £110 m Emergency Care Centre at Foresterhill, Aberdeen.
Retrofittable selfdiagnostic door
A new version of Global Automatics’ Premier-Slide 100 automatic door operator incorporates a claimed industry first – a self-diagnostic display within the flush-mounted doorframe switch that automatically displays anything affecting the door operation, so users can identify the issue themselves and reset where appropriate, or relay the information to an engineer.
No slip-ups when budgets are tight
Polyflor says its new Polysafe Ecomax heavy-duty safety vinyl flooring, available in 12 shades, ‘combines uncompromising levels of slip resistance with best value pricing’..
Highly efficient heat pumps
A new range of C02 commercial heat pumps designed to provide commercial sanitary hot water and high volumes of stored thermal energy is now available throughout the UK from exclusive UK distributor, ICS Heat Pump Technology.
Two-week lead time for new cylinder range
A new range of unvented cylinders for commercial and large residential projects has been introduced by Heatrae Sadia. Megaflo Commercial is available with a lead time of just two weeks from order, and has 24 variants.
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