Healthcare Estates
Better informed via a BEMS
Trend Controls says that a building energy management system provides ‘an unparalleled method of delivering a high quality working and patient care environment effectively, by maximising the use of finite, valuable resources’. The company expanded: “According to recent studies, 40-52% of a building’s energy use is spent on HVAC, while up to 23% is used for lighting. There is thus the potential to control up to 75% of energy usage simply by implementing an integrated building services solution.” In Manchester Trend will demonstrate how estates and facilities managers can ‘benefit significantly from building resilience into their building energy management systems – minimising risks
Parking partnership with Addenbrooke’s
associated with adverse situations such as plant failure or an environmental condition outside acceptable parameters’. It added: “Integrating the Trend BEMS into the water quality management system also provides a proven management tool for Legionella monitoring and control policies. The Trend system will monitor, control, and provide information on the status of the water supply, storage, and distribution system.”
Mobile software for a ‘holistic picture’ of the estate
Global property and construction consultancy, Gleeds, has adopted Kykloud technology to conduct a detailed condition assessment project on behalf of its client, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Kykloud said: “Gleeds’ specialist healthcare team is now using Kykloud to conduct detailed Six Facet Surveys of 50 health centres across Birmingham. Kykloud enabled Gleeds’ surveyors to conduct complex surveys more quickly and efficiently than via traditional methods, and to produce client-ready reports with far less administrative input.” Roger Pulham, Gleeds’ head of Healthcare, said: “The rapidly changing
nature of healthcare services means we must help our clients find ever-more commercially driven solutions. Kykloud allows us to obtain an accurate, up-to- date picture of our client’s entire estate quickly and efficiently. With the automated mobile software, our surveyors used their iPads to extract detailed information, which was then uploaded onto a single portal to create reports both of individual sites and across the entire property portfolio. Kykloud made it easy for our surveyors to capture the required data, and to create user-friendly reports, and a holistic picture of the condition of the estate, allowing us to look at how best to increase efficiencies portfolio-wide.”
Chance to meet the HEJ team
On both of IHEEM’s stands at Manchester Central, visitors will be able to meet the editorial and advertising teams from Health Estate Journal, the official Institute magazine. Published 10 times a year, HEJ is recognised as an authoritative and topical publication covering the most important issues facing healthcare estate and facilities management and engineering professionals, as well as the associated design, architectural, and construction supply chain.
Each month the Journal, which is also
fully accessible online, incorporates both in-depth technical articles on key issues of interest, and the latest sector, product, and technology-related news, plus an Institute News section reporting on recent IHEEM activities, initiatives, and events, including those undertaken through the Institute’s extensive Branch network. This year HEJ will again be publishing the official Healthcare Estates show preview, show issue, and catalogue. Copies will be available on the IHEEM stands, and will be widely distributed throughout the two-day show.
Indigo will showcase its latest developments in hospital car parking. The company, which works with 16 major hospital Trusts in the UK, will show a video to demonstrate its work with Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. The 30-year partnership between Indigo and Addenbrooke’s involves an agreement and an investment of over £14 m, which has seen a state-of-the art 1,228 space, nine-level multi-storey car park created, equipped with the latest design and technology features aimed at improving customer experience. The Indigo Business Development team will attend to discuss recent contract wins and extensions, as well as the latest developments at current sites. Managing Director, Philip Herring, will also be attending the event and a drinks reception to meet visitors in the exhibition halls on 4 October.
Efficient human waste disposal
Vernacare says it will demonstrate how its easy-to-maintain
technologies are ‘advanc- ing hygienic patient toilet- ing and washing’. The company’s Vortex+ human waste disposal unit reportedly eliminates the risk of cross-infection because it opens and closes via foot sensor,
eliminating hand contact. The machine ‘auto-starts’ when the lid closes, helping to prevent overloading, and the closed- drum system ensures that only an ultra-fine waste water slurry is discharged, ‘ensuring effective, free-flowing drainage’. A self-diagnosing display panel, along with a manual emptying override, simplify machine maintenance. The company said: “The Vernacare system is highly energy-efficient, consuming 60% less water than bedpan washers, and, due to the fact that it uses only cold water, the Vortex has been shown to reduce operating costs by up to 39%. The powerful 1 kW three-phase motor also enables a rapid two-minute cycle time for up to four fibre-moulded waste containers.”
Health Estate Journal 91September 2016
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