HEALTHCARE ESTATES Embedding ‘future-ready’ IT
Technology and global health challenges are redefining our world, changing the ways we connect and deliver care to patients – and for healthcare, that means new challenges, and new opportunities. So says Honeywell Building
Technologies, which explains that its approach to building ‘the connected hospital of the future’ is to begin with each customer’s strategic goals, annual operating plan, and achievement aims. The company said: “Our methodology is patient and staff-focused, and experience-based, and designed to understand what the hospital’s critical needs and particular use case are, to determine the technology needed to bring improvements.” Honeywell takes ‘a collaborative,
consultative, and flexible approach’, working closely with organisations to prioritise individual use cases ‘to triage the highest priority outcomes’, by incorporating the ‘best-fit’ technology or functionality. It said: “With our integrated technology platform for healthcare, healthcare facilities can become healthier, safer, more efficient, and more profitable, with a future-ready IT infrastructure. Our solutions and services support over 1,100 healthcare facilities worldwide.”
Architectural Wallsz is a UK supplier and installer of glazed and solid partitioning for offices, retail, and education applications.
Healthcare segregation pods a speciality to stay ahead by developing our own
It has recently entered the healthcare market, seeing success designing healthcare segregation pods for the NHS, healthcare study pods, and consulting rooms. It said: “As the era of modular construction began to gain popularity, we at Architectural Wallsz took steps
durable and reusable prefabricated healthcare solution. In response to the pandemic, we recognised an urgent need for segregation methods in hospitals and healthcare facilities.” Using sustainable Modern Methods of Construction, Architectural Wallsz can manufacture off site, and rapidly install, to minimise disruption on site. The full segregation pod solution includes ventilation and filtration, integrated medical head walls, integrated sink wall modules, nurses’ stations, and casework. Construction time on site is minimised, with elimination of unnecessary waste. Architectural Wallsz added: “As a result of the flexibility and durability of the product, the walls can be redesigned and repurposed to suit the evolving nature of hospital configurations.”
Industry standard for building maintenance specs
SFG20 is the industry standard for building maintenance specifications. Its unique library of web-based maintenance schedules is used by facilities professionals to ensure their maintenance is compliant with all relevant legislation and regulation. Working in collaboration with IHEEM, SFG20 has created a set of maintenance task schedules – which align with the Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs) – to suit the specific requirements of the healthcare sector. Specifically designed for hospitals, NHS Trusts, dentists, vets, and doctors’ surgeries, these healthcare schedules were developed with technical input and support from Sodexo. The healthcare schedules include the unique requirements of the HTMs, such as ventilation, decontamination, medical gases, and typical aspects such as fire, water, and electrical.
NHS Blood and
Transplant has adopted SFG20 software to help ensure that its maintenance and service programmes adhere to a range of legislation and strict safety requirements. Mark Walsh, National Estates and
Facilities technical manager at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “I was very impressed with SFG20. Adopting the system has been the right thing to do, as it helps ensure that our maintenance procedures and tasks are always up to date with legal compliance across our whole estate.”
Electric track vehicle systems for hospital ‘intralogistics’
In Manchester Quirepace will present the Unicar and Multicar electric track vehicle systems manufactured by Telelift Logistics, which it says ‘offer an innovative solution for hospital intralogistics for payloads up to 15 kg and 40 kg respectively’.
Both systems are based around a track network that can be routed both horizontally and vertically through a building. Autonomous ‘cars’ travel on the track network, routed from sender to receiver as required, and many cars can operate on the same track section simultaneously, enabling high
throughputs. Applications in hospitals include, for example, pathology and pharmacy bulk delivery (Unicar), and stores and general goods delivery with automated load/unload (Multicar). Unicar is already used within the NHS for sample
delivery between Pathology Specimen Reception and the various processing departments.
The cars’ design means payloads can be kept horizontal if required. Quirepace said: “The transport is extremely smooth, mitigating all risks of degradation to payloads through shock and jolt, and there are no air transfers, noise, or pressure implications, as there are with traditional hospital pneumatic tube systems.”
Quirepace will have Unicar equipment on display, and its Technical Sales team will be on hand to answer any questions.
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