RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Design and build contractor Composite is to build a new pre-cast concrete, multi-storey visitor car park at York Hospital, for the York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working in partnership with main contractor, Kier Northern.

Developed to enable Drax (UK) fire detection and alarm equipment users to “monitor every stage of the maintenance process from any authorised location”, and to document every part of the maintenance cycle, IRIS (Internet Recording Information System) is a new web-based service management system.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital staff selected a new Modula S-TP water purification system from ELGA Process Water for the hospital’s new £2.7 million Children’s Kidney Unit (HEJ – May 2010).

A roof at Reading’s Royal Berkshire Hospital is finally free of scaffolding thanks to a 3M roofing solution. The flat roof covering the hospital’s radiology department had been leaking, but the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust had not had the budget to replace it.

Birmingham City Hospital has turned to specialist in commercial showering, washroom controls, fittings, and systems Rada to help target improved efficiencies in infection control after detecting higher than expected C. difficile rates in a former Nightingale ward for the elderly.

Since it was launched at the IHEEM exhibition last year, the Dyteqta-System - the world’s first dedicated non-invasive, non-destructive, fully automatic drainage monitoring system - has been generating considerable interest from across the healthcare sector. This has included infection control specialists, facility and building services managers, construction firms and drainage materials suppliers.

There has never been a previous time when those responsible for the maintenance of ventilation systems had more reason to ensure they are maintained in a clean and safe condition. The very air that patients, staff and visitors breathe must be safe and, since the essential function of air ventilation systems is to circulate clean, safe air, it is indisputable that they need to be kept clean.

Based in a large listed manor house, the rehabilitation centre combines an old building exterior with an interior containing the latest specialist facilities and systems including The Wandsworth Group’s IPiN Nursecall.

Achieving optimum hygiene levels in hospital environments has “just got much easier”, says Construction Specialities (C/S) . . .

Designer of operating room equipment Berchtold has received an order for 500 of its small D 300 therapy and examination lights for Algeria from Lytraco, a Lyon-based exporter, for mobile field hospital use.

AF Consulting, which advises NHS Trusts on operational PFI contracts, has launched a free helpline service to provide advice to public sector managers responsible for operational PFI contracts.

EnduraCor, the Leaderflush Shapland doorset core, is “one hundred times more durable than multi-layered chipboard”, according to a recent independent test.

Rehau has launched a new antimicrobial option for both its PROFILA data and COMPACT data cable management systems.

Environmental Water Systems (EWS) claims that its “fully automated” HVD technology, which “efficiently softens water to remove calcium and magnesium salts that cause scum and limescale within process and drinking water systems”, offers typical payback in under 18 months via savings in operational costs when used to replace “outdated co-current systems”.

One of Europe’s biggest and busiest paediatric hospitals, Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, has chosen recycled and refurbished modular buildings for three new facilities.

Marshall-Tufflex’s Odyssey Bio antimicrobial trunking has been specified by building services engineers CCDP LLP for a refurbishment within Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. It has been installed in inpatient and outpatient radiology departments, upgraded to host a new PACS system.

A range of “energy-efficient” examination lights that use LEDs in place of conventional halogen bulbs to produce “a brighter, white light that improves visualisation of the examination area without the long term concern of bulb replacement”, has been launched by Welch Allyn.

Alloa-based carbon management consultancy CADmeleon’s new “Carbon Estates” software, which has apparently already caught the attention of Scottish and Southern Energy, is an online portal that enables organisations “to see the business value in building refurbishment as a carbon reduction strategy”.

Staff at Ductbusters have been praised by Kent’s Darent Valley Hospital for their courteousness and meticulousness during their testing and cleaning of fire dampers in the ducting at the Dartford healthcare facility.

The organisers of the HSBC-sponsored European Business Awards have announced that medical technology specialist Brandon Medical is to represent the UK as one of 25 “country representatives” in the prestigious 2010 Awards programme.