A washroom control specialist will soon launch a wireless system designed for the continuous, automatic monitoring of hot and cold water temperatures and water flow events in large pipework systems.

How 21st century technology, sound parking operative training, and a willingness among Trusts to innovate, are combining to improve the hospital parking experience.

Develop Training warns that, all too frequently, incidents within confined spaces result in fatalities.

BOC Healthcare says it offers hospitals and other care facilities ‘a total turnkey solution to the complex issue of creating safer, more secure medical gas cylinder storage’.

Businesses have yet to get to grips with the Apprenticeship Levy – a recent gathering of HR and operational professionals in the utilities and construction sector from companies including SGN, Siemens, Interserve, Skanska UK, Morrison Utility Services, and FCC Environment at an Industry Skills Forum co-organised by Develop Training (DTL) and Mentor Training Solutions – concluded.

Businesses have yet to get to grips with the Apprenticeship Levy – a gathering of HR and operational professionals in the utilities and construction sector at an Industry Skills Forum co-organised by Develop Training (DTL) and Mentor Training Solutions – concluded.

A risk management specialist believes ‘poor managerial standards’ practiced by many Trusts in relation to their estates departments are due to them failing to adopt the NHS-recommended ‘systems approach’ to governance.

Forbo Flooring Systems has ‘refreshed’ its Flotex Colour collection with the addition of a new design and format, as well as ‘an array of new colours’ that it says are ‘inspired by the moods and illuminating and spectral shades of cities around the world’.

‘Sustainability in the NHS’ was the title of a first day presentation by Professor Fiona Daly, Sustainability & EFM Workforce lead at NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/NHSI), in the ‘Strategy & Leadership’ steam at October’s Healthcare Estates 2019 conference in Manchester. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.

The Water Management Society is to host a webinar entitled ‘On-site testing for waterborne pathogens and speed of response to contamination events’, presented by Dr Paul McDermott, director of PJM-HS Consulting, on 5 December this year.

A look at the work of the recently formed IHEEM Fire Safety Technical Platform.

HEJ’s editor spoke to former chairman of the IHEEM Publications Committee, Amos Millington, about his engineering career – which began with an apprenticeship at legendary British aviation manufacturer, de Havilland, some of his most memorable experiences, and the people he met along the way.

The UK and Eire distributor of a Norwegian-developed vacuum drainage technology that reportedly consumes one-sixth to one-eighth the volume of water used during flushing of traditional ‘gravity’ toilets, sets out this and the technology’s other practical and cost-saving benefits.

With growing demand for healthcare services, and acutely limited resources, tracking the location of hospital beds and mattresses with RFID can see significant efficiency gains and improvements in patient safety. So says the RFID product manager for Healthcare at RFiD Discovery, who provides an overview of the available technologies.

June’s Hospital Innovations 2018 in London event saw the second IHEEM roundtable held in IHEEM’s 75th Anniversary year focus on NHS apprenticeships, with a particular emphasis on ongoing work by NHSI, in conjunction with the professional institutes, to establish a national engineering apprenticeship for healthcare engineers. HEJ’s August 2018 issue (pages 32-36) reported on the first half of the discussions, while here we cover the second part.

At October’s Healthcare Estates 2018 conference, Simon Corben, director and head of Profession, NHS Estates and Facilities Efficiency and Productivity Division at NHS Improvement (NHSI), gave a comprehensive update on the work of he and his team.

Specialist in high security and blast / ballistic-resistant doors and windows, Stafford Bridge, is set to considerably expand its portfolio in the next few months, and will be increasingly targeting the acute and mental health sectors.

Authorising Engineers (Decontamination), a group of highly skilled individuals acknowledged as lacking an effective representative professional body over the past decade by Graham Stanton, the chairman of a new IHEEM Decontamination Technical Platform (DTP) established recently to promote their professional interests, have much both to contribute to, and to gain from, the new Platform, he, and the body’s secretary, Brian Kirk, explained to HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie at a recent meeting in London.

Members will by now have received their notice of year 2011 membership subscriptions and any additional professional registration subscriptions if appropriate.

Working with you to develop your career” is a strapline familiar to the many visitors to the IHEEM website since its October 2010 launch. As a practical example of the way IHEEM is seeking to foster opportunities for members to develop their careers, the Institute is launching an international travel bursary award for 2011.