Substantially revised degree apprenticeships for building services engineering will help employers plug critical skills gaps and launch more young people into rewarding careers, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).

Abloy UK has expanded its innovative Aperio range with the new KL100 Wireless Cabinet Lock, which it says ‘provides traceable, flexible, and secure digital access for the safekeeping of items in healthcare settings’.

Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, and Leeds City Councillor, Helen Hayden, have visited Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ Old Medical School to give their support to the ‘flagship project’ of the £180 million West Yorkshire Healthtech and Digital Technology zone.

Royal Philips and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust are partnering to provide an interactive miniature scanner to help prepare some of the county’s youngest patients for hospital scans without the need of sedation or a general anaesthetic.

Mike Dunne, Service and Aftersales Technical manager at Howorth Air Technology, discusses the company’s establishment and running of a dedicated CPD-accredited Ventilation Workshop designed to help contractors and engineers ‘fully understand the specific and detailed requirements of ventilation systems’.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed another intervention by England’s Chief Medical Officer in the controversy surrounding poor air quality in buildings.

With hospitals by their nature energy-intensive, Aermec claims says its new EHT active chilled beam offers ‘clean healthy air, acoustic comfort, and reduced energy consumption, while respecting the environment’.

AA Projects’ Sarah Butler discusses a new NHS England resource which aims to show how the NHS can use and manage its estate ‘as a catalyst to boost social value, address local priorities, and enhance the wider determinants of health’.

Healthcare architect and consultant, Efthimia Pantzartzis, and Nikolaos Pantzartzis, a mechanical engineer with extensive experience in complex public schemes, both of Studio di Ingegneria e Architettura Pantzartzis in Bari in Italy, discuss a recent project to comprehensively refurbish the Surgical Block at San Paolo Hospital in Puglia. They also set out some of the lessons learned on how to successfully undertake such a project amid the constraints and challenges posed by an unexpected event – in this case the COVID-19 pandemic.

Healthcare estates and facilities personnel keen to see wider collaboration between such professionals – for example with those working in neighbouring NHS Trusts – are being encouraged to complete a questionnaire sharing their experience in this area, and to distribute the survey link to their colleagues and counterparts.

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’.

When a completely new flooring system was required for a refurbishment project at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Tremco says it was ‘in pole position’ to fulfil the needs of the client, Axiom Group (NW), with its ‘fully compatible solutions offering’.

Three senior personnel at public service consultants, The PSC, discuss the NHP’s announcement that all new English hospitals must be 100% single room.

Leading lighting company, Glamox, is embarking on a tour of European cities to raise awareness with lighting designers, consultants, and architects, of the benefits of human-centric lighting (HCL) inside professional buildings.

Develop Training, which provides compliance, technical, and safety training, has officially re-opened its York training centre alongside its new fully to-scale artificial JETSET (Joint Emergency Training Set) street.

The team behind the New Hospital Programme has announced that five hospitals constructed mostly using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) will be rebuilt by 2030 as part of the Programme.

John Newbold, director of lift consultancy business, SVM Associates, who has worked in the lift business for almost 40 years, outlines some of the challenges faced, and lessons learnt, from assisting both Estates and Capital Project Departments manage their lifts.

Jenna Davies, Global Product manager, Clinical Waste Management, at Vernacare, discusses the risks surrounding needlestick injuries in healthcare facilities, and emphasises that all staff should be trained in how to work safely with sharps, how to safely dispose of them, and what to do if an injury occurs.

The UK’s 9.4 million STEM workers are wasting on average six hours every week thanks to a lack of access to advanced AI tools, according to a new ‘in-depth’ study, How the STEM world works, by STEM specialist, SThree.

Information Commissioner, John Edwards (pictured), has urged organisations across the UK to recognise the real-world impact of data breaches – ‘and the devastating effects they can have on people’s lives’.