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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Congenital heart centre completed at the LRI
MTX has completed a new two-storey ‘bespoke’ modular building at Leicester Royal Infirmary for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to house the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre, with the £4.5 m project completed in 52 weeks. Working with its design partners, MTX designed and produced a bespoke 1,080 m2 building, which links to the existing hospital. It houses an operating theatre, a catheter lab, recovery suites, outpatient and diagnostics facilities, ancillary facilities, and a dedicated plant room. The theatre and catheter lab were constructed on the first floor using a modular-framed traditional cast in-situ concrete floor. This steel structure was upgraded to minimise vibration when the floor and ceiling-mounted C-arms are in use. The design included provision of an IPS/UPS system serving the theatre, recovery beds, and catheter lab, interfaced to back up the Philips imaging equipment. A full suite of medical gases and AGSS was provided via retractable and articulated pendants in the operating theatre and cath lab. These were carefully co-ordinated with both floor and ceiling- mounted C-arms in the catheter lab, to
ensure that the room could function both as a catheter lab and a theatre. Independent simplex AGSS pumps were provided to each theatre, alongside a spare pump for back-up.
MTX said: “All of the ground floor was installed as a traditional volumetric modular building. This allowed our M&E contractors to fit out the first fix M&E containment in the factory, prior to the components arriving on site.” The new facility achieved a BREEAM ‘Very Good’, and an airtightness of 5.2, while U-values are compliant with Approved Document L2B. Dan Harrad, senior project lead on the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre, said: “The Centre’s development has been a great success for both Leicester Royal Infirmary
Clamp-on metering solutions webinar The UK´s healthcare estate has been
challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic in the last 18 months, and Flexim is proud to have been a reliable partner in delivering and commissioning non- invasive flowmeters for vital medical oxygen for over 200 hospitals in the UK and Ireland. Beyond this, the
ambitious goals for Net Zero in 2040 heighten the importance of insights in internal energy flows. Flexim said: “Improving energy efficiency always starts with measuring, and here our ultrasonic clamp-on solutions are an excellent choice for retrofitting in healthcare buildings to undertake accurate measurement.
“Join us at 10.00 am on 22 September, when Flexim’s Lars Vogel and Andy Hammond will present a webinar on the cost benefits of non-invasive clamp-on metering solutions.” They will cover: n Medical gas metering, including medical Oxygen and Air, Argon, Nitrogen, and others – ‘no pipe entry, no microorganism control, no outages for installation’.
and MTX. The project was achieved by taking a Stage 3 traditional concrete frame building and redesigning it as a steel-framed, hybrid structure, bringing it back into budget through value engineering design and standardised elements. MTX added: “As the first floor was to accommodate a cardiac theatre and catheter lab, we could not compromise on the structural performance. The hybrid design allowed the use of pre-finished concrete cassettes on the ground floor, and a steel-framed offsite steel MMC solution on the first floor, with a traditional cast in-situ slab. The lightweight steel- framed structure and brick slip façade reduced the overall size of the piled foundation, reducing costs, while still achieving the desired look.”
n Energy metering – heated or chilled water flows, delivered in kW usage.
n Steam metering solutions for autoclaves, or boiler and CHP optimisation as part of your Net Zero/ ESOS audit campaign. n Portable check metering.
Flexim says its clamp- on solutions are easily fitted during plant operation without the need for pipework or supply outages.
Andy Hammond has spent over 40 years in instrumentation, specialising in flow, and has supported the NHS with O2
Dial in for maintenance training
metering during
the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. Lars Vogel is Market
manager for Pharma, Food, and Buildings at Flexim, and an ‘expert in energy efficiency applications’. He brings 15 years’ experience in ultrasonic clamp-on measurement in various industries.
To register for the webinar, visit:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/5425762645705189389
Hospital estates teams and contract FM providers can benefit again from in-depth maintenance training from Horne Engineering, the company says – to optimise the performance and extend the lifetime for Horne thermostatic taps, showers, and mixing valves. A new film studio has been installed at Horne’s factory, equipped with overhead and front-facing cameras, laptops, and gadgetry that enable smooth transition from camera view, to PowerPoint, to website, for ‘a seamless learning experience’ over Zoom. Horne added: “Participants get an enhanced view of procedures and, joining from multiple locations, can save valuable time, while reducing environmental impact.”
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