RECENT NEWS

A first ever ‘system-wide’ report from the health sector in England has shown that while progress is being made to prepare organisations and communities for climate change’s effects and its impacts on health, ‘further support should be given to embed climate change and sustainability into local thinking and decision making, enhanced by a sound platform of information from nationally-collated information and intelligence’.

A standard integral blind system with the ability to tilt the slats from open to close, and to lift or raise the internal blinds for maximum exposure, has been selected for the new £10 m Sudbury Community Health Centre, one of Suffolk’s biggest such facilities.

Potential participants and collaborators are being sought for a research project that will examine the timing and scheduling of hospital life, to identify potential opportunities for reducing overall energy and mobility demand in hospitals.

Contour, the designer and manufacturer of low surface temperature (LST) radiators and guards, has introduced new ‘round top’ panel radiators, which ‘provide an ideal choice for those seeking to reduce energy waste and also save on space’.

Recognising that hybrid and integrated theatres necessitate a ‘less cluttered, more open-plan theatre’ design, with fewer obstructions in the path of imaging or laparoscopic equipment, MAT (Medical Air Technology) has introduced its new self-contained DYNAMIC screenless ultraclean ventilation (UCV) canopy.

The Register of Clinical Technologists (RCT), which is jointly managed by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), the Association of Renal Technologists (ART) and IHEEM, has recently been accredited under the Accredited Registers programme.

London’s St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, through its FM company, Skanska, has contracted with Clarke Energy to install a combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP) plant powered by a Jenbacher gas engine from GE Power & Water.

Varied conference topics discussed at the CIBSE Building Performance Conference and Exhibition next month at London’s QEII Exhibition Centre.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s bestknown high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated last month, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell.

Construction and engineering company, MTX, has recently been awarded the contract to deliver a twin operating theatre suite, complete with a 4-bed first stage, and two 8-bed second stage, recovery units, at Luton and Dunstable Hospital for Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

ECEX has appointed Steve Bell as manager for the business’s Air Intake Screens arm.

As part of a current ongoing £90 m redevelopment of the Glan Clwyd Hospital in Rhyl, North Wales, the healthcare facility has seen an extensive upgrade to LED examination lighting.

Amid increasing reports that waste fires now account for a growing proportion of public fires. Taylor, a manufacturer of four-wheeled galvanised steel bins, has developed a ‘fire-proof’ lid.

Mitie, the facilities management company, has appointed Lindsey Coles as healthcare director in its facilities management division.

Provider of practical-based and distance learning medical equipment training, Avensys UK (HEJ – August 2015), has received CPD accreditation for all its Level 2 and 3 courses, and is inviting engineers to attend a free online training session on ‘Electrical Safety Testing’, on September 16 at 1 pm.

Phil Story has joined the team at supplier, installer, and integrator of digital television and audio visual components, Airwave Healthcare, as a regional account manager.

BSRIA has extended its scope of UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accreditation to include laboratorybased acoustic testing.

An ‘important milestone’ in P+HS Architects’ long-standing relationship with Nuffield Health has seen the completion of a brand new hospital for the private healthcare provider in Cambridge.

With support from the Government’s export agency, UKTI (UK Trade & Investment), Vernacare says it has secured more than 23% of the Singapore hospital market for its ‘hygienic patient washing and toileting products’.

The ‘pioneering’ Joy Care by Bristan, a ‘stylishly designed’ BEAB Care and RNIB-endorsed shower said to be easy to install and retrofit, is being used in conjunction with shower pumps ‘to meet the complex requirements of wet room retrofits in the care and social housing sectors’.