HEALTHCARE & HOSPITALS


KEEP WARM & CARRY ON


Industrial chiller and boiler hire company Andrews Sykes, pride themselves on being able to respond


extremely quickly to emergency situations that arise in healthcare environments, here they share some tips and success stories.


The temperature constraints within a hospital can vary for several reasons, with laboratories, wards, tablet storage and mortuaries all requiring different levels of cooling. Medical workshops in which clinical specimens are taken and tested require constantly regulated and stable conditions to ensure tasks are safely executed. Interior dynamics, such as high electricity consumption or poor ventilation can cause temperatures to rise excessively, thus potentially jeopardising a number of vital practises.


When the air-conditioning system cannot cope with exceptionally high ambient temperatures or underperforms due to a faulty chiller, a quick fix is urgently required to restore the operating norm; chiller hire.


When boiler failure occurs it can affect supply of hot water for essential daily routines such as washing or preparing food as well as heating the building. Again, urgent action is required to minimise the impact on patients or residents at risk. The fast solution is boiler hire.


In both situations customers will contact a specialist hire organisation such as Andrews Sykes. Andrews has more than 35 depots nationwide and one of the largest chiller and boiler hire fleets available and a proven pedigree in supporting the healthcare sector. It offers a true 24/7 service, Andrews Specialist Hire have a reputation for delivering expert tailored solutions in less than four hours.


Whatever the situation a regional technician will visit the site, whether


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a hospital or care centre to establish what is required, appropriate size of hire plant, where pipe-runes need to go and where equipment can be sited.


Some organisations will have asked Andrews to pre-survey a site and hold a record of these details so that in an emergency, equipment can be delivered much more speedily, without the need of a new site survey, they may also have equipment ready and waiting on standby.


HOSPITAL HEATS UP Earlier this year engineers from


Andrews Sykes Chiller Hire Division were quick to respond to a call from a prominent Kent hospital when its chiller broke down without warning. The breakdown would have devastating effect on a hospital already under severe pressure to cope with increasing demand for treatment.


Some of the key centres affected by lack of cooling were a urology centre, vascular unit and cardiac catheter suite. The unexpected chiller breakdown meant that operations and specialist treatments would be cancelled or delayed unless a temporary solution was found quickly, to keep theatres operational. A regional technician visited the hospital the same day that the emergency call for help was received.


This prompt response resulted in recommendation of using a 100kW chiller. Engineers from Andrews Chillers worked through the night to install the temporary chiller, positioning it at ground level outside the premises, with hoses running


up the building to the second floor for coupling to the existing flow and return connections of the faulty chiller. The redundant hospital chiller was then available for repair and maintenance whilst the Andrews chiller fulfilled its duties of maintaining ideal temperatures within the building.


“URGENT ACTION IS REQUIRED TO MINIMISE


THE IMPACT ON PATIENTS OR


RESIDENTS AT RISK.”


At this prominent Kent hospital, the gradual expansion of specialist departments has led to an increasing number of patients using the facility each year. As a result, it is now estimated that as many as 400,000 people visit annually (1,400 every day). These growing figures have put extra pressure on an already strained


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