Healthcare Estates Advances in pneumatic tubes
Aerocom points out that pneumatic tube systems have been in use for almost 150 years, saving ‘hundreds of thousands’ of walking hours annually for hospital staff who would otherwise have to hand carry pathology and pharmacy products. The company said: “Technological advances have helped develop systems that not only track the carriers, but also the contents, in real time. Aerocom is leading this development, and upgrading existing systems through lifecycle renewal programmes.”
Aerocom has also ‘taken Rauland Communication systems from the USA to the UK’, and is consequently ‘about to shake up the traditional notion of the nurse call system’. It said: “The future of patient management entails directing the patient’s requirements to the relevant staff member by smartphone or pager. Rauland
also gives choices to the patient, allowing them some control during their hospital stay. Creating an enhanced healing environment is the Rauland mantra – by connecting third-party machines to monitoring systems, bed management components, and smartphones.”
Turnkey ‘integrated solutions’
Starkstrom, as part of the Progility Group, offers S-equiP – a ‘turnkey solution designed to meet users’ infrastructure and clinical needs for critical areas in the hospital’. By working in partnership with hospitals, facility services, and healthcare professionals, Starkstrom says it will use its multidisciplinary expertise and experience ‘to bring
together state-of-the-art medical electrical power supply systems and clinical equipment to provide a fully integrated solution’.
S-equiP offers products including isolated power and uninterruptable power supplies, theatre control panels, PACS viewing stations, bespoke AV systems, UCV canopies, clinical pendants, ‘award- winning’ marLED surgical lights, examination lights, operating room tables, and the maxium diathermy device with associated accessories. Starkstrom said: “With our comprehensive product range, and years of multidisciplinary expertise and experience, we will provide clients with time and cost savings through dealing with one supplier. We will provide services including consultation, design and project management, and post- installation training and service.”
Bespoke water treatment expertise
The
B.Braun Avitum Water Systems business currently supplies and maintains over 30 water treatment systems to NHS services in the UK. From an initial focus on dialysis
services, the company has now moved into endoscopy solutions, and supporting customers ‘experiencing issues with third-party systems’. It said: “We also work with customers to establish bespoke solutions to issues of replacement, including minor building work alterations, to minimise interference in the delivery of healthcare. Our Water Systems business benefits from the knowledge and experience of designing, building, equipping, and operating, dialysis units (along with equipment sterilisation units from our sister company), for over 30 years. Come and talk to us about new or replacement reverse osmosis systems; lifetime running cost efficiencies; quality issues with current plant; pre-treatment systems, and bespoke solutions.”
Overcladding for a new lease of life for older buildings
d+b facades is a leading design build overcladding specialist focused exclusively on external refurbishment of occupied, ageing buildings.
It takes single-point responsibility for all aspects – from design through to completed building. The company said: “Many healthcare buildings are over 40 years’ old; all benefit from ongoing internal refurbishment and are structurally sound, but most retain their original façade. Dated façades create unattractive, accommodation with poor appearance, ventilation, and thermal insulation, unreflective of the quality of care provided within. The affordable, sustainable solution
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is to ‘recycle’ them using quality overcladding with proven longevity. “d+b facades’ insulated aluminium rainscreen
emissions, and solar gain, while improving ventilation and patient comfort.”
overcladding system has a design life of 60+ years, and has been proven for more than 25 years. The appearance and performance of a carefully refurbished hospital building is comparable to that of an equivalent new-build. Overcladding reduces heating energy costs, maintenance costs, CO2
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