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26 Healthcare Estates 2026 Awards Winners The winners of this year’s Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards were announced at gala dinner featuring guest speaker Sir Kevin Sinfield. The Awards recognise outstanding organisations, teams, individuals, projects, and products in the healthcare built environment and are awarded for work that demonstrates originality, innovation, and quality of delivery.
31 Harnessing the AI boom for NHS Net Zero Steven Heape, chair of IHEEM’s Environmental and Sustainability Advisory Panel and Board Trustee of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), explores how the explosive growth in AI and data centre demand could hand the NHS the revenue generator it has lacked since CHP fell out of favour, and sets out what a genuinely investable model for combined heat and compute might look like.
35 VPER: a new scientific regime or category? The Volumetric Photonic Emissive Reaction (VPER) reactor represents a new class of environmental air treatment technology for safer, more effective airborne contamination control. VPER uses a dense, multi-pass photonic field within a sealed reaction chamber to drive non-thermal, non-ionising molecular decomposition of airborne pollutants, pathogens, and ultrafine particulates. This solid state, consumable-free approach eliminates the performance degradation, waste burden, and energy penalties associated with legacy systems, as Stephen Darren Magee, health innovation project consultant for Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, explains.
39 Resilient power strategy in an evolving landscape Hospital power demands have risen steeply with the widespread adoption of advanced medical equipment, computerised systems, and the electrification of critical services. Andy Towse, product quotes manager at DPS, explores key considerations for estates managers designing sustainable power strategies.
43 Raising the alarm on pneumatic tube systems For many years, pneumatic tube systems (PTS) in hospitals have interfaced with local Building Management Systems (BMS) to relay fault warnings. However, there are now significant changes on the horizon. Having been involved in the design and delivery of PTS for the New Hospital Programme, Tom Hughes, managing director of Aerocom (UK) Ltd, looks at whether a more sophisticated approach to monitoring can actually change the way pneumatic tube systems are maintained.
49 Bad hospital design is killing patients Leaders across the construction sector must understand the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance and embrace innovation to ensure patient safety into the future, says Christine Fears, head of publishing and research communications at the Healthcare Infection Society.
53 Hospital 2.0: getting governance right Hospital 2.0 will only compound value if it is precise about what must be common, what must remain locally owned, and how evidence from each scheme changes the next. A three-layer governance model can turn ‘national consistency with local leadership’ from an aspiration into an operating discipline, explains Varun Sharma, founder and CEO of NEUVIOR.
59 Patient recovery: healing by design When thoughtfully integrated, technology becomes an essential part of how a space feels and functions and is the hidden heartbeat of a hospital’s healing architecture. Hany Saleeb, global head (vice president) of healthcare markets at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, discusses how human-centric architecture and autonomous tech are revolutionising patient recovery.
63 Pipe insulation and the fight against overheating Parasitic heat release from piped heating and hot water services is a significant contributor to overheating in buildings. Chris Ridge, technical director of the Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) explains why we cannot afford to overlook the benefits of thermal insulation of pipework as we seek to reduce overheating issues across our healthcare estates.
67 Spaces that combine safety with wellbeing In mental health settings, a holistic approach to design is essential, with the built environment playing a critical role in shaping patient experience and supporting recovery. Safety systems are an essential component of many mental health setting designs but are too often considered as an afterthought. Simon Hemming, CEO of Pinpoint Limited, sets out how and why they should form part of the overall therapeutic approach to design.
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