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Mediplan has supplied nurse call and patient entertainment equipment to the new £300 million Forth Valley Royal Acute Hospital in Larbert, in Scotland, the UK’s first healthcare facility with a robotic delivery system for meals, laundry, and clinical waste, and, with 860 beds, 16 operating theatres, and 4,000 rooms, the country’s largest completed healthcare construction project yet.

NHS Tayside and the North of Scotland Planning Group have chosen Brtiplas’s anti-ligature Safevent windows for new mental healthcare facilities at the Murray Royal Hospital in Perth and the Stracathro Hospital in Angus.

Water ingress through roof structures can considerably damage building interiors.

A healthcare centre under development as part of the £13 million regeneration of Loudoun Square in Butetown, Cardiff, is Wales’ first healthcare project to attain a BREEAM “Excellent” rating.

According to the npower Business Energy Index (nBEI), “an annual report tracking business opinion on energy use, energy risk, and carbon emissions”.

Capita Symonds, the multidisciplinary consultancy operating in the building design, real estate, civil engineering, environment, management, and transport sectors, has appointed Simon Hembury as a healthcare specialist.

Asteral has been appointed to a new national NHS framework to supply, manage, and maintain, ultrasound equipment. The framework removes Trusts’ need to go through the OJEU process themselves, and “provides more competitive pricing”.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has extended the scope of its product testing and certification services under the International Electrotechnical Commission for Electrical Equipment (IECEE) Certification Body (CB) Scheme.

With professional engineers holding Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status currently significantly under-represented on its register, the Engineering Council (EngC) has launched a concerted drive to raise such professionals’ profile and “increase awareness and understanding of the qualification’s value”.

Over 40,000 m2 of Forbo’s Marmoleum and Step safety flooring ranges, which met the project’s “strict hygiene, durability, and sustainability requirements”, have been installed in a 500-bed extension at NHS Fife’s Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.

NHS Tayside and the North of Scotland Planning Group have chosen Brtiplas’s anti-ligature Safevent windows for new mental healthcare facilities at the Murray Royal Hospital in Perth and Stracathro Hospital in Angus.

Electrical vehicle (EV) charging points from APT Technologies, distributor of the E-Volt range, are being installed on five levels of the Glasgow Southern General Hospital’s multi-storey car park

Aggreko has provided temporary heating and dehumidification equipment to main contractors FCC Elliott Construction to assist in the construction of the new 312-bed South West Acute Hospital at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

Zip Heaters has expanded its Hydroboil Plus on-wall boiling water system range to offer larger capacities of up to 40 litres.

An “intelligent” window control package that can be fully integrated within its building energy management systems to maximise natural ventilation’s benefits has been introduced by Trend Control Systems.

SAS International’s new “Drop & Slide” suspended metal ceiling system provides a flush finish, “like many competitor systems”, but differs in its “ingenious way of allowing access to the ceiling void for essential maintenance”.

To combat chemical-resistant bacteria, viruses, fungi, and spores which can cause hospital infection, Proventec Healthcare now offers OxyPharm, a new “area bio-disinfection solution” claimed to be “fast-acting, highly mobile, and low cost”, and “effective against all potentially harmful micro-organisms”, organically breaking them down to water and oxygen molecules, “without risk to humans”.

Yorkshire based Intaview has launched a new privacy and vision control system that utilises a twin-film concept “to provide a superior performance, and offer greater vision for privacy vision panels in office partitions, windows, doors, screens, and corridors”.

FireCell from EMS Fire & Security is reportedly the UK’s first fully certified EN54 Part 25-compliant wireless fire detection solution.

A heavy duty electronic push-button lock that has achieved fire safety and durability testing to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) grade 1 – the highest accreditation level, confirming its robustness against heavy use, has been introduced by Codelocks.