HEALTHCARE ESTATES
The ‘foundation’ for intelligent hospital design
Healthcare facilities are ‘challenged with doing more with less, while meeting the demands of today and tomorrow’. So says Schneider Electric, which says
it is ‘supporting hospitals worldwide, as a partner for digitisation and sustainability’, with EcoStruxure for Healthcare. It said: “Our services, software, and solutions, are the foundation for intelligent hospital design. We drive efficiency in energy and operations, while reinforcing resilience across critical infrastructure, to create an environment that fosters quality care, improved safety and security, and better hospital performance. “We support your Green Plans with
a comprehensive, four-phase approach to help healthcare facilities deliver against sustainability programmes –
from strategy and implementation, to operation, optimisation, maintenance, and green building certification. In Manchester, our experienced healthcare team will be addressing some of healthcare’s key challenges, such as ‘Going all-electric’, ‘The Future of Smart Technology in Achieving Flexible Hospitals’, and ‘The Fundamentals to Develop an end-to- end Net Zero Plan’. Visit stand B44 for live demonstrations, thought-provoking presentations, and one-to-one discussions with our team of healthcare experts.”
Better safety for vulnerable service-users identify trends and the
Kingsway Group says it is delighted to be attending Healthcare Estates 2022, as its team looks forward to showcasing the new Kosmos Conscious Monitoring System, ‘designed to improve service-user and staff safety’. The company explained: “Kosmos is a new generation of monitoring system that provides a full geographical layout of a ward to help identify and alert staff teams when doors are opened, or if faults occur on a door alarm. The system provides a full audit trail to
sequence of events. Should a ligature attempt occur, an annunciation, both audible and visual, sounds, giving staff a precise location of the event. Integrated with a
staff attack alarm system, the system is built upon one easy-to-use platform.” All data is securely stored, and the screen display installed at a convenient location, such as an office or nurse station. The Kosmos system can be fitted to existing Kingsway alarmed complete door systems, as well as new projects.
Calculating
embodied carbon for healthcare estates
As the healthcare sector tackles the need to quantify carbon alongside capital cost when planning and delivering new investment, Turner & Townsend has launched its Embodied Carbon Calculator in the UK. The bespoke tool ‘enables healthcare estates teams to evaluate the carbon footprint of projects from an early design stage through to practical completion’. Turner & Townsend explained: “It also calls for a fundamental re-evaluation of the cost manager’s role, allowing such personnel to benchmark, model, and track, carbon values for materials across the full construction cycle of a healthcare project.”
The tool is designed to follow established project planning stages, starting from RIBA Stage 2. It aligns with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) New Rules of Measurement 1 (NRM1), and third- party standards such as those of the UK Green Building Council, as well as benchmarking performance against industry targets proposed by LETI. The carbon accounting software fully integrates with Turner & Townsend’s existing benchmarking and cost planning applications, ‘incorporating the management of carbon as a currency seamlessly with its capital equivalent via the same custom application’. For more information, visit
https://tinyurl.com/38mh2h6m
Maintaining an optimum tertiary power infrastructure
The healthcare sector sees rapidly advancing technology, which although transforming how patients are being diagnosed and treated, can put immense strain on ageing infrastructures. Throw into the mix the added pressures COVID-19 has imposed on sensitive equipment and systems, and there is a risk of equipment failure from power interruptions. So says Power Control, which maintains that simply installing a tertiary power such as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is not enough to mitigate these risks. The company said: “To enhance dependability, routine testing and maintenance are critical. The UPS installation will be part of a critical
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infrastructure plan, and must safeguard the load during a mains failure. To keep the UPS in optimum condition, HTM guidance recommends that routine preventative maintenance is performed at least every six months. The checks should include: n Functional tests of the UPS, inverters, and batteries.
n Cleaning of any ventilation. n Ensuring that batteries can hold a fully charged state while the UPS is on bypass.
n Batteries and UPS should be tested online and monitored over 10 minutes.
n Observation of the battery voltage and current recharge conditions.
n Checks of the environment.” Power Control added: “Hospital environments are often not ideal for
UPS systems. The heat and humidity can cause the faster ageing, and the batteries to need more attention. To ensure HTM 06-01 compliance, a maintenance contract with a trusted supplier should be in place. A supplier experienced in servicing and maintaining IPS systems will reduce intrusion time, and make the maintenance calendar more manageable.”
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