RECENT NEWS

Modular building specialist, Portakabin, has announced the acquisition of healthcare modular building specialist, Darwin Group, in a move that it says will offer ‘significant benefits’ to healthcare providers across the UK.

xburo, a mechanical and electrical engineering consultancy which has experienced rapid growth in demand, has appointed Sarah Peterson to head up its Edinburgh office and lead energy and sustainability services across its UK operations.

A new ‘state-of-the-art’, modular 3,450 m2 outpatient facility completed at King’s College Hospital in London has opened to the public.

Veolia has marked 85 years of providing energy management to the healthcare sector with major new projects to help decarbonise two acute hospitals for the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, one of England’s largest teaching hospital Trusts, which treats over 2.8 million patients annually.

Independent property consultancy, Naylors Gavin Black, has secured Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a long-term tenant at The Curve in the city.

Facilities management support services provider, Carlisle Support Services, has appointed Richard Jenkins as MD of its Cleaning and Facilities business.

Breast screening services for Warrington residents are to receive what Community Health Partnerships describes as ‘a huge boost’, with construction work now underway to create additional screening capacity and clinical rooms at the town’s Bath Street Health & Wellbeing Centre.

The Charters Restaurant at Royal Preston Hospital has undergone a major makeover led by the award-winning design team at multidisciplinary construction development practice, FWP.

Engineering culture in the UK needs to accelerate its drive to become more inclusive if the UK is to continue to be a key player in the global race for engineering skills, says a new report from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE).

Over a decade of hard work, and challenges including difficulties obtaining building materials during the pandemic, complex planning issues, and getting the building comprehensively equipped, were all successfully overcome in the construction and fitting out of Eastwood Park’s impressive new 3,000 m2 Training Centre in Falfield, Gloucestershire, which was officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on 4 April.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has urged the UK government to keep ‘a sense of perspective’ in the face of a growing row over the European Commission’s decision to speed up the phase-down of global warming gases used in refrigeration and air- conditioning equipment.

A new Resource Centre has been opened at Fulbourn Hospital in Cambridge to provide the local community with ‘a modern and sustainable healthcare hub tailored to the needs of patients and staff members’.

NHS England and Health Education England have legally merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England.

“After 10 Years with PPL, I am proud of what we have built, and excited for what is to come.” These are the words of PPL Training Sales director, Jonathan Eland. The York, Slough, and now Livingston-based training provider has been delivering its own highly-regarded brand of mechanical, electrical, and water hygiene training for just over 10 years, operating in its entirety for approaching 16.

Provider of compliance, technical, and safety training, Develop Training has unveiled its new mobile confined spaces unit, a vehicle capable of travelling around the country to provide what the company describes as ‘industry-leading confined spaces training’.

Willmott Dixon has been chosen by Hounslow Council and the NHS to deliver a new ‘state-of-the-art’ £40 m health centre in Chiswick.

Leading maintenance, compliance, and decarbonisation contractor, Novus Property Solutions has continued its winning streak in the healthcare sector, having recently been awarded a significant measured term contract with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester.

Delabie says its H9625 thermostatic sequential mixer is ‘revolutionising the world of water controls’ thanks to its Bioclip function, which allows the interior of taps exposed to bacterial proliferation daily to be cleaned and disinfected.

Power quality specialist, CP Automation, now supplies what Janitza says are its ‘industry-leading test and measurement products’ to the UK market.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) NHS Trust worked with ICS Cool Energy, a specialist in complete temperature control solutions, to retrofit and decarbonise its heating system with the latest heat pump and multi-pipe chiller technologies.