Andover-based household and bathroom product supplier Croydex has launched a toilet seat which it claims effectively prevents bacteria being spread into the surrounding air and onto numerous surfaces when toilets are flushed.

IHEEM’s Hong Kong branch has recently seen 23 new members join. To mark this “unprecedented” influx, senior branch personnel, including Committee members,

Energy saving specialist Marshall Tufflex Energy Management (MTEM) has announced “an important new appointment “to its management team.

The IHEEM “Planning for Uncertainty – the role of practical risk management in estates” seminar,

Rehau has launched a new antimicrobial option for both its PROFILA data and COMPACT data cable management systems.

Following last year’s announcement that the HEVAR (heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration) show was evolving from a regional to a national show in 2011,

How hospitals and other healthcare facilities can cost-effectively and efficiently deal with the sizeable quantities of clinical and other waste generated by their day-today activities, while meeting their statutory obligations, and keeping “on the right side” of regulatory and enforcement bodies such as the Environment Agency,

High performance glazing film supplier Dymond Products has introduced a film calculator service to enable accurate assessment and specification of solar control films for any project, and to provide accurate payback calculations.

HVCA (Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association) chief executive Robert Higgs is to retire from the Association after 38 years’ service later this year.

Graeme Dunn, engineer, Design and Engineering at Atkins, who serves as an Authorising Engineer (MGPS) for both NHS clients and healthcare providers throughout the UK, Ian Sandford, a medical gas consultant (associate) at Hulley Specialist Gas Services, a specialist division of consulting engineers Hulley and Kirkwood, and Alex Black, an experienced technical consultant and AE (MGPS), of Alex Black and Associates, examine how the AE (MGPS) role developed, and highlight what they describe as its “pivotal importance” today.

A close-knit team of eight senior personnel with backgrounds in mental healthcare have collaborated to develop a new High Secure Building Design Guide for England’s three high secure mental health hospitals – Ashworth, Broadmoor, and Rampton.

Following many years of designing and producing air handling units for food and cleanroom applications, Thermal Technology has now used this experience to develop a purpose designed range of air handling units for hospitals and other healthcare buildings.

Health Estate Journal reviews IDEAs – a new web-based tool for Trusts working with architects and design consultants to develop their briefs and design ideas for healthcare environments.

Ensuring that a hospital’s lifts operate safely ranks as one of the most important responsibilities of a health estate manager. Eamonn Reid, sales director at lift technology expert LiftStore, highlights some key issues.

The Government has unveiled a vision for emergency care that transforms the way A&E services are delivered in England. Provision of new style departments will introduce significant extra challenges for those having estates and facilities responsibilities. Health Estate Journal examines the vision in depth.

This Health Estate Journal 'Then and now' feature describes thoughts from over 50 years ago on the importance of anti-infection precautions. A brief introduction is followed by a slightly edited version of part one of paper by A.F. Dence MA (Oxon), which was published in the January 1950 edition of The Hospital Engineer (the official journal of the Institution of Hospital Engineers, now IHEEM). The second part of the paper, which appeared in the April 1950 edition of The Hospital Engineer, will be republished, with minor alterations, in the February 2007 issue of Health Estate Journal.

A modular construction approach was used to create a cardiac-catheter unit in Surrey.

Paul Robbins, electro-medical services manager, technical support services, Papworth Hospital NHS Trust, was, at the Healthcare Estates Conference in Harrogate, presented with the Northcroft Silver Medal for his Health Estate Journal article "Managing risk in device engineering".

Technical director for Serco Defence and Aerospace, Sue Lancashire BSc CEng FIMechE FIHEEM, takes a look at the lack of formal procedures covering some of the highest risk activities within the Estate.

Cost allocation for FM services in hospitals, and the monitoring of quality of maintenance services, were examined in two papers prepared for the 19th Congress of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering.