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Safeguarding critical research at biomedical institute


Scientists at Europe’s largest biomedical research facility, the Francis Crick Institute in London, are protecting sensitive laboratory equipment with ABB technology. Events on the grid – such as adverse weather or switching on large loads – can see common voltage fluctuations or ‘sags’ in the network. While these have little to no effect on normal electrical equipment, they can seriously affect sensitive electronics and data collection processes. These power quality issues were a big challenge for the Institute, whose 1,250 scientists perform research into cancer, neuroscience, physiology, ageing, and homeostasis – finding new ways to treat, diagnose, and prevent human disease. ABB explained: “The laboratory building was opened in 2016 to provide the best working environment for its researchers. However, power disturbances were causing significant disruption. Scientists feared equipment would drop out of service at a critical time, potentially losing data or delaying research programmes.” Lee Downes, Senior Project manager


for Facilities & Infrastructure at The Crick, said: “We starting logging both the equipment failures and the electrical supply anomalies, and soon determined


Foot steps into new CST role


that problems occurred with voltage sag incidents.” Early this year, the Institute’s Facilities


team called on Sentridge Controls, a UK automation and control specialist and long-term ABB partner, for a solution. This included eight ABB PCS100 AVC- 40 Active Voltage Conditioners (AVC) rated at 225 kVA, and low voltage bypass switchboards. The AVCs regulate the incoming electricity supply to keep voltage within a very tight quality window. Voltage sags and flicker are now counteracted ‘within milliseconds’, so sensitive equipment now functions normally, and research is not affected. ABB said: “The Institute’s system draws the extra energy needed to make up the correction voltage directly from the utility supply, eliminating the need for expensive batteries and the associated maintenance costs.”


New trainer, new courses Board Accountability for Estates (1 Day)


Application of HTM 00 to situations where no HTM exists (2 Days) Principles covered will be applicable to everything


Giving more opportunities for people to learn the HTMs Health & Safety e.g. trips and falls


Adrian will also be developing 2 more courses later on next year for soft facility managers


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Rod Foot, who has extensive sales, product management, and business development experience in the security, healthcare, and fire and critical protection sectors, has joined Call Systems Technology (CST). The company said: “Throughout his career, Rod has been in regular contact with CST, buying critical messaging products from us to complement and integrate with the healthcare staff and patient safety solutions he was responsible for.” CST supplies, installs, services, and maintains, communication and


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critical alerting solutions. It said: “Our emergency messaging solutions are designed to ensure worker safety, particularly if staff are working alone or in potentially dangerous environments. All alarm call points are wireless, and extremely quick and simple to deploy. They include real-time voice refuge points, first-aider call points, and ‘call for assistance’ alarm buttons. These life-critical alerts are transmitted to personal devices such as mobile phones, radio pagers, and two-way voice radios, providing detailed information about the alert location. For staff working on site with impaired hearing, CST can provide ‘deaf-call’, which integrates with fire panels, and is fully BS5839 and EN54-4-compliant.”


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