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5 COVER STORY: KEEPING HOSPITALS UP TO DATE WITH VITAL OXYGEN FLOW DATA
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19 PUTTING GOOD DESIGN MORE ‘CENTRE STAGE’ With the announcement last October that 40 new hospitals would be built across England by 2030 as part of a ‘package’ worth £3.7 billion, Christopher Shaw, a senior director at leading healthcare architectural practice, Medical Architecture, asked – in a webinar address given as part of IHEEM’s Digital Week 2020 – how the sector could ensure that good design quality was a key feature of more new hospitals in the future.
27 NEGLECT PROPER DUCT CLEANING AT YOUR PERIL
Jonathan Brennan, Chair of the National Association of Air Duct Specialists UK (NAADUK), and part-owner of Specialist Hygiene Services, and Peter Reid, the Association’s President, who founded dedicated ventilation and air hygiene services company, Overclean, in 1981, explain how a better understanding of cleaning and maintaining ductwork can improve the design of ventilation systems and reduce fire risk.
31 CREATING AND REFINING YOUR GREEN PLAN
As part of the wider NHS drive towards ‘Net Zero Carbon’, NHS Trusts across England must now create, develop, monitor, and report to their Board at least annually, on progress with a Green Plan. In a recent webinar held in association with HEJ, two speakers from business utility company, Inenco, explained the background to Green Plans, the key steps in creating an effective one, and some of the best ways to encourage staff to play their part.
38 UNLOCKING VALUE IN MODERN CONSTRUCTION
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) can appear complex, with different approaches to choose from, and many considerations for design programmes. Here, Jaimie Johnston, director and head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood, a company of creative technologists, designers, architects, engineers, and analysts, discusses ‘why MMC is so relevant for healthcare’.
44 SHADOW BOARDS BOOST WORKPLACE SAFETY
Jim Roberts, Product manager at Beaverswood, considers the benefits of adopting a common-sense approach to workplace tool management and organisation.
47 MAKING FACILITIES FIT FOR FUTURE NEEDS
In the wake of lessons learned about existing healthcare infrastructure, and its ability to cope with exceptional clinical demand and pressures over the past year, Sophie Crocker and Dan Flower of HKS Architects consider ‘the optimum model of hospital for pandemic preparedness’.
53 CLOSE COLLABORATION IN A ‘DIGITAL’ ARENA
As a specialist in water controls for healthcare, Rada claims ‘a wealth of experience’ in creating products that deliver the best outcomes for end-users and estates teams. David Merriman and Matt Whiting discuss where product and service innovations are moving for healthcare, ‘exploring the trends that have been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic’.
58 BREATHING LIFE INTO FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
Robert Lawton, Business Development director at Coventry-based Lawton Tubes, reportedly the UK’s largest medical gas copper tube distributor, describes some of the company’s recent work supplying such tubing to Nightingale Hospitals.
63 SIX-MONTH PROJECT DELIVERS CANCER CARE UNIT
Shaun Tuffin, Construction director at LST Projects, discusses the challenges of constructing a new £7.3 million cancer care ward above a ‘live’ hospital building in Southampton within just six months.
66 GETTING MEDICAL OXYGEN TO WHERE IT’S NEEDED As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, the pressure points for government, healthcare, and society, have continually changed. Right at the start, however, a key question for the UK medical sector was that of ventilators and the gases needed to keep them operational. Steve Soper, Medical Group Business manager at Air Products, discusses the company’s experiences in those early weeks.
70 MODULAR APPROACH FOR LONG-TERM FLEXIBILITY
The recently completed Treatment Centre at Queen’s Hospital Burton marks a significant step forward in the Trust’s five-year estate strategy. Ben Foreman, managing director of Catfoss, recalls the collaborative journey to get the project ‘off the ground’.
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