RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

When installing cavity wall insulation at Southend University Hospital, Climate Energy Solutions was keen to ensure minimal disruption to patients and staff.

Aura Corporation’s new Halo luminaire is a circular surface-mounted luminaire body with all the benefits of Actulite polarised daylight lighting, plus “effective sidelighting”.

GOJO describes its new PURELL skin nourishing foam hand sanitiser as “a breakthrough product” that meets World Health Organisation hygiene requirements while greatly improving skin condition.

SFS intec’s new ISOTAK TIA fastening system has delivered cost and time savings compared with alternative adhesive options on the roof of the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital’s new £22 million Women’s Centre.

NextiraOne has completed a second major contract from East Anglia’s James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to build additional dedicated data centre facilities.

Vernacare has appointed a UK manufacturing team to produce its new porter’s chair, created as part of the Department of Health and NHS PASA’s “Design Bugs Out” challenge (HEJ – June 2009).

Brandon Medical has supplied equipment including customised pendants, examination lighting, and IPS and UPS emergency back-up systems, for a new critical care unit for the Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH).

When Spirax Sarco supplied new, energy-saving heating and hot water systems for Kettering General Hospital, it also helped secure Government funding for the project.

Alarm Radio Monitoring has just completed the first phase of a new staff personal security system installation at the New State Hospital in Lanarkshire. The existing State Hospital is one of only four high secure hospitals in the UK, and is currently undergoing a £65 million rebuild, due for completion by 2010/11.

Cogeneration specialist ENER-G says City Hospitals Sunderland will “dramatically cut” both its carbon emissions and energy costs at the 970-bed Sunderland Royal Hospital by installing one of the company’s 1.55 MW combined heat and power (CHP) systems.

The exacting thermal specification for NHS Lothian’s new Midlothian Community Hospital in Bonnyrigg includes EcoTherm polyisocyanurate (PIR) insulation roofboard.

Curtain walling, windows and doors from Kawneer are to feature on the £170 million PPP “waveform” extension to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Designed by BDP Architects to exacting solar transmission criteria, the new wing will feature Kawneer’s AA110 dry-jointed curtain walling on the concave and convex main west elevation and on courtyards.

Wycombe Hospital has reportedly reduced its electricity bill for a single piece of plant by over £5,000 over a year, after installing an EMPOWER intelligent plant control system from SHJ Hospital Pipelines that has taken over primary control of a threecompressor medical air system.

Hampshire Primary Care Trust, reportedly England’s largest PCT, has selected Real Asset Management (RAM’s) Asset4000 asset inventory and depreciation software to manage assets valued at some £150 million.

A Sureclad ceramic granite ventilated façade system from Shackerley has proved an attractive cladding solution for Quattro Design Architects in Gloucester charged with delivering a new clinic in Cheltenham for registered cancer charity the Cobalt Appeal Fund.

A single-tray service trolley launched by E&R Moffat aims to address “a problem for all hospital caterers” – how to serve a piping hot main meal on one half of the tray, and keep the other half (for example salad and dessert) properly chilled simultaneously.

An order said to be one of the UK’s largest ever for cast iron soil and drain pipe is seeing ductile iron pipe, fitting, valve, access cover, and grating supplier Saint-Gobain PAM UK supply almost 25 miles of its Ensign soil pipe to Britain’s biggest single-site hospital development.

Citrica has extended its “green” range of consumables with a new “Swine Flu and MRSA” cleaning product, Selgiene Ultra,

CMS Acoustics, which claims to be the UK’s largest provider of acoustic solutions, has launched a specification guide to support mechanical and electrical (M&E) consultants and contractors in selecting the right acoustic or vibration product for specific applications.

Premier Interlink (Waco UK) now offers a new concrete floor option for healthcare buildings which it says increases the acoustic dampening qualities of the building and reduces vibration in high traffic, high equipment load areas, such as plant rooms or MRI and X-ray areas.