CONTENTS IHEEM REGULARS 5 COMMENT
5 COVER STORY: FASTER COMPLETION, ENHANCED QUALITY CONTROL, AND A 'FUTURE-PROOF DESIGN'
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
FEATURES 19 PANDEMIC AND CLIMATE IN FOCUS AT CONGRESS
The IFHE Congress 2020, which took place ‘online’ in late January this year, saw attendees enjoy four ‘inspiring and intense working days’ learning about the latest and most promising approaches to healthcare engineering, with more than 1200 participants from over 60 countries.
23 COMBATING COVID USING PRACTICAL MEASURES
Sarah Bailey, senior consultant at built environment consultancy, QED Environmental Services in Australia, takes a look at the ‘basics’ of the coronavirus, and discusses steps that can be taken both within buildings, and in the wider community, to mitigate its spread.
29 EFM COMMUNITY CAN ‘BUILD ON GOODWILL’
Minister of State for Health, Edward Argar, Director and Head of Profession, NHS Estates and Facilities at NHSE/NHSI, Simon Corben, NHS Chief People Officer, Prerana Issar, and NHSE/NHSI Director of Operational Finance and Performance, Sandra Easton, were among the speakers at a recent NHSE/NHSI ‘Estates Forum’ webinar held in conjunction with IHEEM.
34 NIGHTINGALES DELIVERED IN RECORD TIME
A look at how ProCure22’s benefits – including collaborative working, quicker decision-making, and rapid response – were harnessed to great effect in the rapid transformation of non-medical buildings into fully four functional Nightingale hospitals across England to provide surge capacity in the early days of the pandemic.
37 MINISTER DISCUSSES ‘BUILDING BACK BETTER’
Presenting at an ‘NHSE/NHSI Estates & Facilities Forum’ webinar, Minister of State for Health, Edward Argar, gave attendees at the event a ‘Health Infrastructure Plan Refresh’. The Minister also emphasised the Government's commitment to ensuring that the NHS estate continues to benefit from sufficient funding and focus.
42 DATA IMPROVES PATIENT FLOW AND DISTANCING An Associate and Project manager at Arup explains how a team from the global engineering consultancy used digital modelling to model and test different capacity scenarios for London’s Whittington Health NHS Trust (Whittington) associated with social distancing requirements.
46 ACCELERATION NEEDED WITH GREEN PLANS
In January HEJ conducted a survey on behalf of business utility and sustainability consultancy, Inenco, to identify how far advanced NHS Trusts across England were in developing and implementing a ‘Green Plan’, as part of the national drive for the NHS Carbon Footprint across England to be Net Zero carbon by 2040, and for the NHS Carbon Footprint Plus to achieve the same goal by 2045. Here, we report on the responses.
50 WALLS CAN BE A BARRIER TO INFECTION TRANSMISSION Large surfaces like walls and doors can provide microbes with the perfect environment for colonisation. Röchling Industrial explains, conversely, how walls can help medical staff maintain high hygiene standards and support safer patient treatment.
53 WIRELESS SYSTEMS IN MODULAR BUILDINGS
Modular construction is rapidly growing in popularity, including in healthcare. In a sector where buildings need to be cost-effective, high quality, and delivered with minimal disruption, modular builds can be an ideal solution. When it comes to fire safety in these environments, however, what is the answer? Hochiki Sales manager, Mark Smith, explains the benefits of wireless life safety systems, and ‘why they are particularly suited to healthcare facilities’.
56 CREATING THE BEST HEALING ENVIRONMENT
The need for interior solutions that enhance hygiene levels, reduce maintenance costs, and create a more positive environment in healthcare buildings, has seldom been more pressing. Mitch Dean, National Sales manager for Wall Protection at Gradus, outlines how installing effective wall protection in your healthcare building can help meet all three needs.
60 ‘PERFORMING HEART SURGERY’ ON OUR ESTATE
With input from Jonathan Brindley, Sales and Marketing director at BladeRoom Group, Professor Phil Begg, director of Strategy and Delivery at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, describes a recent project to construct a new theatre and ward block there, harnessing modular construction.
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