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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS First HEJ webinar focused on energy upgrades


On 20 July, the first in a series of HEJ webinars to be held over coming months featuring industry-leading suppliers, saw Jason Cox, Energy Upgrades Leader for the UK at Armstrong Fluid Technology, discuss ‘Balancing energy savings and HVAC system performance with patient comfort in hospital and care home facilities’.


As a global HVAC system specialist, Armstrong Fluid Technology has specialist knowledge and core competences in areas including heat transfer, fluid flow, demand-based control, and digitilisation. Headquartered in Toronto, it manufactures in four continents, and has committed to a reduction of two million metric tonnes of CO2


‘connected’ devices, and a ‘pump first’ approach, Armstrong Fluid Technology works with healthcare facilities to devise strategies that enable them to intelligently upgrade HVAC equipment for optimised performance – achieving ‘guaranteed’ carbon and cost savings ‘from day one’. While a ‘traditional’ hospital energy upgrade project might not bring tangible results for 18


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months, using the company’s ‘roadmap’, a healthcare facility could, he said, see savings right from the outset.


by 2020. It says its expertise comes from a composite understanding of complete end-to-end fluid systems, and the integration of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, variable speed, and demand- based controls. Its webinar emphasised that heating and cooling often contribute around 56% of a building’s energy costs. Jason Cox explained how, harnessing its sensorless technology, data from


As a first step, he explained, replacing a pump could bring an initial 10 per cent energy saving. He said: “Having surveyed the existing pumps, and, if necessary, replaced them, the healthcare facility will not only see a financial saving immediately, but, via remote monitoring, can harvest the data through the pump, learning while it saves.” The next step in a three-stage process – the optimisation phase – with, for example, Armstrong Controls added, or conversion from a


ICU clinicians turn to mobile technology Intensive care clinicians at Guildford’s


Royal Surrey County Hospital have been using robust smartphones from Ascom to communicate and carry out ‘remote’ ward rounds in the hospital’s 24-bed ICU, where at the COVID-19 pandemic’s early peak, there were up to 18 coronavirus patients on ventilators. The smartphones – enabled with single sign-on (SSO) from Imprivata, and two-way video consultation technology from Attend Anywhere – enable just one doctor linked remotely to colleagues to conduct ward rounds. Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Justin Kirk-Bayley, said: “Usually we have four or five doctors per ward round, but that was becoming impractical with coronavirus patients and limited PPE. Now, just one doctor goes into the quarantined sector of ICU and coordinates a ward round via video on the smartphone, which is projected onto a screen to the team in a meeting room. The technology is giving us back the time we have lost to COVID-19.”


Dr Kirk-Bayley added that the ICU had already begun using the technology to talk to relatives. “One patient who was doing well could see and talk to her husband for nearly an hour,” he


three to a two-pipe system, could, he explained, bring a further 30 per cent energy reduction. Moving to the third – a focus on larger plant such as chiller and boilers – Jason Cox said: “At this stage, via our Pump Manager software and remote monitoring, we know both the building load, and the load profile. This usually enables us to reduce the replacement chiller and/or boiler size –


reducing ‘capex’, and allowing the selection of the ‘right’ size plant, running optimally, which can bring a further 40 per cent energy saving over 9-12 months.” To download the webinar, visit https://event.webinarjam.com/go/ replay/22/24wz8ukh8h1hk, and for details on further HEJ webinars, this month (Courtney Thorne, presenting on ‘Nurse call systems through COVID – why wireless was the 'go-to' choice', and ‘How smart technology is changing the way we work’) and next (Beacon Medæs), keep an eye on the HEJ website and social media.


Data centre


project completed Secure I.T. Environments has completed


explained. “Nurses will be staying in touch with relatives using video on the smartphones.”


Clinical nurse specialist, Claire Richardson, said: “We have introduced ‘virtual visiting’ on all 14 of our adult inpatient wards, and in our departments and community hospitals. A staff member takes the smartphone to the patient, and can quickly and easily sign on to Attend Anywhere for them, with one tap, and no need for passwords. After the visit, the patient, relative, and staff, are confident that no data has been saved, and the smartphone can be thoroughly cleaned to meet infection control requirements. Virtual visiting has particularly benefited our elderly patients without their own mobile devices, and I’m confident it has helped in their recovery.”


a new data centre project at Hammersmith Hospital. The design and build company for modular, containerised, and micro data centres, worked closely with the hospital to help identify the right location for the new server and communications room, selecting a ground floor location with good access and connectivity. The room was fully stripped back and built to a design developed by the company that includes 6x19 in cabinets, UPS, energy-efficient air-conditioning systems in N+1 configuration, intelligent power distribution units, and an environmental monitoring system. Secure I.T. Environments also provided the electrical infrastructure and structured cabling services, and a room deep clean upon completion. Completed on time and within budget, the facility forms part of the Trust’s wider upgrade programme, for which the company also completed M&E upgrade works at its other hospitals. Secure I.T. Environments has many years’ experience working with NHS Trusts, successfully delivering projects on sites where the public and staff are constantly present.


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