Biomass boiler specialist, Wood Energy, is introducing five new service and maintenance plans for its installations, and, in what it says may be a first, offering 20-year boiler warranties.

A ‘large proportion’ of hospitals may be at risk of non-compliance with BS 72734, without being aware, warns Siemens Building Technologies Fire Products.

The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has been prosecuted by the HSE after it emerged that its workers may have been exposed to asbestos fibres.

Honeywell’s new FAAST Fire Alarm Aspiration Sensing Technology portfolio will be showcased at this year’s Firex from 13-16 May (Stand N40, Hall 3) at the NEC in Birmingham.

Steve Mount, an independent Legionella management consultant and trainer with over 25 years’ previous experience in microbiology and UKAS-accredited Legionella analysis, underlines the rising number of nosocomial cases of Legionnaires’ disease in recent years, and explains the key risk assessment, management, and monitoring steps that must be taken by those responsible for hospital water systems to comply with legislation governing the ‘control and management’ of Legionella risk.

Next month (14-15 May) will see staged at Birmingham’s National Motorcycle Museum the first in a planned new series of Design in Mental Health Conference and Exhibition events.

IHEEM is to hold two seminars on ‘Sustainability’ in April and May this year. Speakers already confirmed for the ‘Plan Today for A Sustainable Tomorrow’ events, taking place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel on 19 April, and on 16 May at a London venue to be confirmed, include Phil Nedin, an Institute Past President, Chartered Engineer, and director of Arup’s global healthcare business.

Pointing out that all employers must have a ‘suitable and sufficient strategy’ to provide for the safe evacuation of all staff, clients, and visitors, including those who may require assistance.

Technical training specialist, Develop Training, saw bookings for its Legionella training courses ‘more than double’ between May and June.

The Slieve Donard Hotel in Newcastle, County Down, is ‘the exciting new venue’ for the 2012 Northern Ireland IHEEM Conference, which takes place from 23-24 May.

Pride of place on C-TEC’s stand at this month’s IFSEC exhibition (14-17 May at Birmingham’s NEC), will be the company’s new ZFP multi-loop analogue addressable touchscreen controlled fire panel.

Last month’s HEJ featured an article based on a presentation at a recent IHEEM seminar given by Dr Jimmy Walker, principal investigator, Decontamination, Biosafety Unit, Microbiology Services, at the Health Protection Agency, who provided valuable advice on detecting and dealing with Pseudomonas in hospital water supplies.

Minutes of the 43rd Annual General Meeting, held at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, on Tuesday 11 May, 2010.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital staff selected a new Modula S-TP water purification system from ELGA Process Water for the hospital’s new £2.7 million Children’s Kidney Unit (HEJ – May 2010).

The 4th European Conference on Healthcare Engineering is taking place at the Palais des Congrès de Paris (pictured) from 30 May to 1 June.

As you may have seen at Healthcare Ireland, Komfort has recently supplied their CX partitioning system for Theatre Number 6 at Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

Keith Baker, a Higher Level Qualifications (HLQ) Engineering Council consultant at City & Guilds, explains how those wishing to join professional engineering institutes without “traditional” degree or other formal qualifications can benefit from an enhanced joint ECUK and City & Guilds examinations service that provides an alternative entry route. This service could prove invaluable to existing IHEEM members keen to encourage others to join.

With regular flu outbreaks a significant concern and cost / resource drain for the NHS, Vapac Humidity Control, reportedly the UK’s only manufacturer of specialist humidifier equipment for hospital use,

Minutes of the 40th Annual General Meeting held at the Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, on Tuesday 15 May 2007.

All IHEEM members are invited to join the IHEEM President, Phil Nedin, at the IHEEM Annual AGM, 15th May 2007, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London.