HEALTHCARE ESTATES
An ‘integrated approach’ to projects
Ingleton Wood has many years’ experience of working in the health sector, on projects ranging from refurbishment and conversion to extensions and new-builds. Clients include both acute and primary
care NHS Trusts, GP practices, private care home owners, and other healthcare providers. The practice’s multidisciplinary structure is particularly focused towards healthcare, where an in-house coordinated design team ensures an integrated approach to projects, including architecture, building surveying, building services design, civil and structural, health and safety, interior design, principal designer, and sustainability services. The business said: “We consider
sustainability as a primary design objective, and through our environmental discipline can provide an all-encompassing team, including environmental design engineers, accredited low-carbon consultants for the production of energy certificates, and qualified BREEAM Healthcare assessors. “Our practice’s specialists can thus
provide the individual designed solutions which each scheme requires, informed by experience and technical knowledge of standards and regulations. This expertise will also ensure a sensitive understanding of the therapeutic aspects of the design, and an empathy with the end-user’s needs.”
Modular ICU triples isolation bed numbers
Modular construction specialist, Portakabin, has delivered a purpose- built six-bed intensive care unit at York Hospital for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Compliant to HBN 04-02 guidance, the new facility triples the number of intensive care isolation beds available at the hospital. The additional capacity will relieve pressure on theatre and recovery spaces, and help manage a large backlog
of elective surgery, ‘future- proofing the critical care service for York’. Constructed offsite using modern methods of construction, the modular building includes a bespoke ventilation system which provides close room pressure control, independent room temperature control, dual multi- movement Starkstrom pendants, and nurse call facilities.
Alan Downey, Chair for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “What a fantastic building this is. It completely revolutionises our ability to provide safe, effective, comfortable critical care facilities to patients. Even the very experienced critical care physicians, anaesthetists, and nurses, have been saying what a tremendous improvement it is on the facilities that we have been used to.”
National Framework Agreements and dynamic purchasing
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Commercial Procurement Services provide National Framework Agreements and Dynamic Purchasing Systems to clients across healthcare services and the wider public sector. The organisation said: “Our free-to-
access agreements offer compliant procurement routes to market with innovation and savings. “A number of these could help healthcare estates teams, including: n Sterile services solutions – for extra capacity or outsourcing of services.
n Decontamination solutions (HPV, UVC, and Electrostatic).
n Healthcare laundry and linen services.
n Air purification, decontamination, and isolation systems.
n Capital turnkey solutions and community diagnostic centres.
n Tail-end spend management services.
n Retail outlets – support, templates, and guidance, for selection of competent providers.
n Waste management and minimisation services.
n Gas supply. n Electricity supply. n Carbon and energy infrastructure upgrades.
n Smart building solutions.
n Smart eating systems.
n Water retail services. n Contract and asset lifecycle management.
n Real-time healthcare tracking and patient flow systems.”
‘Pipe-within-a-pipe’ system inspired by penguins’ feet
Manufacturer of the ‘award-winning and innovative’ pipe-within-a-pipe system, Eco-Duo, Water Kinetics, will exhibit on stand D67.
The company says its goal is to be ‘the world- leader in water safety, providing preventative measures against waterborne pathogens while being energy efficient’, making it ‘a real game-changer in the world
of potable water systems’. Taking inspiration from vascular heat- retention mechanisms within penguins’ feet, Water Kinetics created Eco-Duo – a counter-current heat exchanging pipe-within- a-pipe system, which it says ‘halves energy costs and carbon emissions’. Eco-Duo is constructed from copper, a naturally antimicrobial material, and is 100% recyclable.
In addition, its packaging is made from 100% recycled material and is 100% recyclable afterwards.
The system itself reduces the necessary heating (or cooling) needed for potable water recirculation, instead opting for a self-insulating system, keeping hot water hot, and cold water, cold. Eco-Duo itself has undergone extensive independent testing at BRE in Watford, as well as being installed for the past five years at the University of Bristol.
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