RECENT NEWS

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has reduced the cost of maintenance by installing Shire Systems' FrontLine Maintenance Management software.

IHS, which provides critical technical information and decision-support tools including an online service for construction professionals in the UK called The Construction Information Service, has announced that it has signed a sole partnership agreement with CIRIA, which provides performance improvement products and services for the UK construction industry.

After more than four years as chief executive, Tim Broyd has left CIRIA. The Board has now appointed Bill Healy to serve as new CIRIA's chief executive.

Canterbury Christ Church University is the first university in the UK to pilot MRSA protected uniforms.

The new Evelina Children's Hospital has scooped another award, this time the British Construction Industry (BCI) Judges' Special Award for a building that the judges consider to be particularly inspirational.

Architectural practice, DKS Architects, which has moved into new purpose-built accommodation at Stokesley Business Park, has secured its third major scheme outside the region with healthcare developer Montpelier Estates.

The new Dumbledore Primary Care Centre in Handcross, West Sussex, under construction by specialist developer Cathedral Healthcare, has reached a major milestone en route to its scheduled completion in early 2007 with a topping-out ceremony held on the site.

Sheffield architects Race Cottam Associates have designed a new care facility for the city.

IHEEM has welcomed its new chief executive, John Long MBE, who succeeds Bill Pym.