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With the NHS having committed to becoming the world’s first Net Zero national health service, with ambitious targets set for 2040 across directly controlled emissions and 2045 for wider supply chain impacts, one area increasingly under the spotlight is power quality and energy management, says Christian De Knock, Healthcare Divisional manager at Power Control (pictured).

A Community Diagnostic Centre designed to reduce waiting lists and deliver more rapid treatment for patients has been created at Milford Community Hospital in Guildford in Surrey as a design and build project by MTX Contracts.

Newham Hospital has secured over £13 million in funding through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), which Barts Health NHS Trust says will support a range of energy efficiency and renewable energy generation projects.

Built environment firms shouldn’t do anything about improving the diversity of their workforces if they don’t truly believe in it, a leading construction industry diversity champion has said.

Following the announcement that the hospital will be in Wave 1 of the New Hospital Programme, a specialist design team has been appointed to deliver the vision for a new £1 bn+ Airedale General Hospital, ‘securing the future for sustainable, patient-focused healthcare in the region’.

A service-led approach to the addressing a failing warm roof system at Circle Health Group’s The Cavell Hospital, with a roof survey and moisture scan indicating that only 20% of the roof actually required full strip and replacement, has saved the private healthcare provider around £900,000 by eliminating the need for full replacement, and the associated requirement for new roof-mounted plant and equipment located in Enfield, The Cavell Hospital is a key facility for Circle Health Group.

Wernick Hire, a well-established name in portable and modular accommodation solutions, has launched a dedicated Modular Hire division, in a move that it says strengthens its position as a leading provider of temporary modular buildings across the UK.

University Hospitals Dorset (UHD) NHS Foundation Trust has successfully opened a new, ‘state-of-the-art’ Emergency Department (ED) in the BEACH building at Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH).

'Failing' NHS Trust leaders will have annual pay rises docked under ‘tough new measures’ aimed at improving NHS performance and driving progress on cutting waiting lists, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.

Work has completed on what the architects describe as ‘a tailored package of upgrades’ to improve the internal environment at the Alnwick Infirmary Day Surgery.

Offsite manufacturer, McAvoy, in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, says it has achieved ‘zero landfill waste’ during the construction of a new Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) extension at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.

Construction has started work on a refurbished and expanded endoscopy unit at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust’s Queen’s Medical Centre.

Plans to rebuild Watford General Hospital have taken a major step forward, after the government committed to fund almost £12 million of the scheme.

Aerocom (UK) is on its way to installing one of its biggest ever pneumatic tube systems (PTS) at the 150-acre Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Sodexo Health & Care has been appointed as one of only 15 strategic suppliers to the NHS, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and wider health organisations, as part of the newly launched National Strategic Supplier Relationship Management (SSRM) programme.

MTX Contracts has delivered one of Europe’s largest Elective Orthopaedic Centres at Colchester Hospital using modern methods of construction. The new 11,000 m², three-storey facility for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) includes eight dedicated orthopaedic operating theatres and 72 patient beds.

Following a competitive tender process, Fusion21 has announced the suppliers successfully appointed to its national Decarbonisation Framework, worth up to £1.5 billion over four years.

Urgent care in Newcastle is set to be ‘transformed’ through the construction of a purpose-built facility next to the Royal Victoria Infirmary’s Emergency Department, say the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Robertson Construction, which has been appointed to build the centre.

A new worldwide survey conducted by global delivery consultant and construction expert, Mace, for its latest report, 'State of Sustainable Assets', reveals that while 97% of asset managers feel able to keep pace with environmental regulations and reporting requirements, 80% are not yet implementing strategies or thereby achieving sustainable outcomes.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust says it has ‘reached a milestone’ on the construction of the Plymouth Community Diagnostic Centre, with the new facility’s concrete frame having taken shape.