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INSTITUTE NEWS Versatile M&E specialist to be Company Affiliate


Geoffrey Robinson, an award-winning, family-owned, mechanical and electrical building services specialist and construction contractor serving the NHS and wider healthcare sector, has become an IHEEM Company Affiliate. Business Development Manager, Colin Elcock, said: “Led by continued customer demand and repeat business, the company continues to be family-managed, by Managing Director, Neal Robinson. He both re-invests in the business, and strongly believes in encouraging all staff to deliver projects to clients in a non-adversarial, open, and transparent manner. NHS and other healthcare projects accounted for around 65% of the company’s £20 m turnover in 2019. We own our buildings, have strong working capital, and a healthy balance sheet.”


Geoffrey Robinson currently employs over 200 people, and is an NHS P22 construction contractor, with a sound understanding of HTMs and working in live operational hospital environments. “Our directors are technical directors,” Colin Elcock explained, “and we have Mechanical, Electrical, Ductwork, Construction, and FIRAS Fire-stopping operating divisions. With fewer sub-contract functions, our quality is better assured and more focused


A crane with a 60-metre extension delivering steels for the new CT scanner room at the at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough – a project completed in just 10 weeks.


on customers’ demands and timescales.” Geoffrey Robinson’s Electrical division won the national 2019 ECA Partnering Award for its works involving the surveying, design and installation, and upgrading, of the HV/LV electrical infrastructure at the Leazes Building at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle Upon Tyne, which houses the hospital’s critical care functions. Colin Elcock added: “Typifying our ability to respond rapidly to a demanding brief, and due to recent client demand during the pandemic, our Construction team has recently completed two concurrent high- profile, fast-turnaround projects. In the first,


we undertook a complete mechanical and electrical fit-out – from concept design to completion – of an industrial unit located at the International Advanced Manufacturing Park in Sunderland, to create the 460- bedded NHS Nightingale Hospital North East in just over four weeks.” At short notice, and during the coronavirus ‘lockdown’ period, Geoffrey Robinson’s directors and senior engineers met with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation staff to develop the whole building and each bed station requirement. This work included increasing the gas incomer and the electrical capacity, and providing integrated heating, cooling, and ventilation. Pressurised medical gases and oxygen had to be delivered to all 460 bed stations, with an increase in cold and hot water capacities, along with fire stopping, fire detection, nurse call, and integrated data infrastructure, plus temperature-controlled wash stations with all the necessary drainage, pumps, valves, and filters. This project was followed by a 10-week construction project at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, which saw the company build a new COVID-19 CT scanner room, with all associated FIRAS fire-stopping, ventilation, and associated M&E services.


IFHE Digest 2021 captures pandemic’s global impact


The 2021 edition of the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE) Digest has been published, and is available to read online. This year’s IFHE Digest captures the upheaval to the sector and the IFHE itself as healthcare engineers helped to battle the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world.


There are several in- depth articles on how healthcare engineers responded to the pandemic, including insight into emergency facilities in several countries and


continents, including Europe, South America, and Africa. The 29 articles in the 116-page, digital version of IFHE Digest 2021 also offer a broad coverage of ‘normal’ healthcare engineering expertise,


cutting-edge technology, and good practice.


Topics include:


n Facilities management. n Energy management. n Hospital/building design and architecture. n Hospital services. n Healthcare technology. n Infection control. n Systems operations. n Operational standards. n Water management and water system safety.


n Clinical waste management. 10 Health Estate Journal January 2021


In addition to the feature articles, there is also a wealth of information about the IFHE and its members, plus details on the 26th International Federation of Healthcare Engineering Congress taking place from 24-28 January. The 26th Congress was originally due to be held in Rome last May to celebrate the 50th anniversary of IFHE, which was created in the Italian capital in 1970. Instead, however, it will take place


as an online event over five days, covering topics such as hospital design, infection control, and risk management (see preview, pages 18-21 of this issue). There is also a message from new IFHE President, Daniela Pedrini (pictured), a director of the Hospital- University Authority of Bologna – Sant’Orsola Polyclinic, one of the major hospitals in Italy. IFHE Digest 2021 will be hosted on


the Health Estate Journal app and the HEJ website, and will also feature on the IFHE website.


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