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Sustainability central toTrust’s ambitious development plans


Mott MacDonald has been appointed sustainability, energy, and carbon reduction advisor by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) to support the preparation of design briefs for its Hospitals of the Future and Pathology Project.


pathology facility is also being delivered at Leeds’s St James University Hospital site.


The Trust has ambitious plans to invest in new healthcare facilities at the Leeds General Infirmary site. A new ‘state-of- the-art’ hospital will expand adult healthcare services, and the Leeds Children’s Hospital will be given a new home. The two new hospitals are intended to be connected to the retained Jubilee building, which will remain the primary acute services building, and continue as the major trauma building. A new 6,000 m2


Mott MacDonald says that ‘underlying this vision is a desire to build and run these facilities responsibly within the context of a climate emergency’ – setting a roadmap for delivering against net zero carbon in the future. The ‘vision’ will also embed the principles of healthy buildings to improve occupant well-being. A Trust target of a minimum of BREEAM Excellent for both developments


‘Multi-technology’ IoT location


tracking platform


RFiD Discovery, part of Paragon ID, a provider of identification solutions, has partnered with geolocation specialist, Apitrak, to develop a ‘multi-technology’ cloud-hosted IoT platform ‘for the tracking of assets, inventory, and people’.


has been set, and the opportunities to pursue WELL building standards are being explored. The sustainability agenda is to be underpinned by digitalisation, technology, and data, throughout the project lifecycles.


Working with the LTHT programme delivery team, Mott MacDonald’s role includes: n ‘Reviewing, developing, challenging, and updating’ all aspects of the sustainability and energy design brief for both projects.


n Reviewing, developing, and specifying all technical sustainability and energy design requirements and standards to be achieved through the design of the new hospitals and pathology facility.


n Developing and articulating the vision for sustainability through a plan to achieve net zero carbon.


A ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ project


The rapid conversion of Glasgow’s SEC into a new NHS hospital was secured by an array of skilled Scottish tradespeople, among them the Lanarkshire business which ensured that the new facility was supplied with ‘vital sterilising grade water’.


Wishaw-based DMA Canyon, a member of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation, was called upon to deploy the expertise it had already demonstrated in water management work at various Scottish hospitals, being tasked at NHS Louisa Jordan with ensuring that the former concert and exhibition centre’s water was delivered at high dependency care standard.


David Watson, a director, said: “Over the years we have refined our expertise in detecting and controlling Legionella and other waterborne pathogens in water supplies. Hospitals’ water needs to be microbiologically controlled at the highest standard to minimise the presence and release of waterborne pathogens. To achieve this here, we fitted Pall Medical point-of-use water filters throughout the site. These must be monitored closely, and replaced every 31 or 62 days, to ensure compliance with the required standards.


“The entire project was a huge collaborative success, with a completely new plumbing system installed in record time. At peak there were seven of us on site, some working seven days a week, continually installing, testing, and reporting, to get the job done. I’m very proud of our contribution, and have pointed out to my younger colleagues – including 25-year-old John Fraser, one of our adult apprentices – that they have participated in a project the scale and importance of which they may never see again.”


Apitrak has developed an IoT Platform, a cloud-based software that enables multi-sensor geolocation, full- web user interface, and rapid scaling with low maintenance costs. It says it ‘has been highly successful’ in providing Wi-Fi, BLE, and GPS-based medical device tracking and emergency call systems to hospitals and industrial customers in France.


Supporting different sensor


technologies’ use, the new platform will reportedly enable organisations to build on existing systems and infrastructure, ‘and even combine the information from different tracking technologies in one central system’. A full intuitive web interface, including map views to display tracking information, will be accessible securely from anywhere, while smart interfacing with existing software systems ensures that information can easily be shared ‘across other vital systems’.


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Paragon ID says the new ‘solution’ will ‘support rapid scaling’, thanks to its low set-up and maintenance costs, and can be used with any tracking, identification, and monitoring technology, including active and passive RFID, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Wi-Fi, and GPS. Set to launch later this year, the new ‘multi-sensor platform’ builds on the success of Paragon ID and Apitrak, with their respective asset tracking solutions. Paragon ID, through subsidiary, RFiD Discovery, claims to be the UK market- leader for equipment tracking solutions, in particular in healthcare, working with over 30 NHS Trusts, and commercial clients. Its offer includes asset tracking, inventory management, process monitoring, wandering patient safety, staff safety, and automatic temperature monitoring systems.


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