HEALTHCARE ESTATES Improving indoor air quality
Evotech will showcase the award-winning Airthings air quality monitors, and its MyBEMS building optimisation solution. The company explained: “Airthings indoor air quality (IAQ) monitors can make a significant impact on employee health and wellbeing, providing real- time data on indoor air quality and environmental conditions such as humidity, temperature, and air pressure, and allowing trends to be analysed and conditions improved. When integrated with Evotech’s MyBEMS solution, a building’s HVAC equipment can be optimised automatically, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.” MyBEMS is described as ‘an innovative building optimisation platform that gathers data from the building management system and other smart technologies, and brings it together in one place’. Evotech said: “With built-in artificial intelligence, MyBEMS creates smart buildings, while
Zip drinking water system ‘helps reduce’ Legionella risk
improving building performance by constantly monitoring indoor spaces and optimising them accordingly, enabling building efficiencies and reduced costs to be achieved with limited physical intervention.” Evotech specialises in building
performance optimisation, and says it is ‘passionate about lowering a building’s energy usage and carbon footprint, while creating optimised spaces that foster wellbeing and productivity’.
‘Leader in the manufacture of solutions that protect doors, people, and places’, Intastop, will showcase its extensive range of solutions on stand C26. On display will be the Tubocolor grabrail range, a ‘UK-exclusive’ range of grabrails, shower rails, and accessories, specially designed with ‘Biocote’ technology – which reportedly kills 80% of microbes within 15 minutes, and
Protecting doors, people, and places 99.9% within two hours, and lasts the
product’s lifetime. The grabrails also have a ‘warm-to-touch’ feel, and a ‘non- slip yet smooth’ finish. Vinyl-coated, they have a non-porous finish, ‘unlike other comparable products, which are often powder coated’.
All the Tubocolor products meet the guidelines in Approved Document M of the Building Regulations and British Standards, are tested up to 250 kg, and meet stringent loading guidelines up to 150 kg.
Intastop will also show complementary products ‘designed with health, hygiene, and safety in mind’ – including door protection, its Continuous Geared Hinge, and a range of wall protection and other products suitable for mental healthcare settings.
‘Unique’ fenestration expertise
Britplas claims ‘unique expertise and unrivalled experience’ in providing specialist fenestration products for the healthcare and mental health sectors, with an in-depth understanding of the complex needs arising from anti-ligature and suicide prevention requirements. It said: “Since its invention in 2006, the Safevent window has been installed in hundreds of UK mental health facilities to become the leading specialist product in its sector. The ground-breaking window design has been continuously improved, evolving through eight models, while
retaining its core features of anti-ligature design, natural light and ventilation, and patient control.”
Recent improvements have included the introduction of GlassShield, a new impact gasket, and the patented Multask handle, with the functionality of an opening winder, patient thumb lock, and staff lock, within a single, stainless steel, anti-ligature component.
Britplas also offers complementary low impact products which ‘enhance the safety and security of mental health environments’.
It said: “Fortress 80 fencing provides security and safety for patients and staff, and can incorporate large-scale detailed artwork. It can thus help enhance the attractiveness of outdoor areas, with many facilities specifying natural scenery prints to create therapeutic and relaxing environments.”
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Leading drinking water system manufacturer, Zip Water, has launched a system designed to reduce the risk of dispensing legionella and other bacteria in drinking water by 99.9%, ‘verified by rigorous independent testing’. Developed specifically for the healthcare and aged care markets, Zip HydroTap UltraCare uses a combination of four protective barriers to provide what is said to be ‘the ultimate safeguard against waterborne bacteria and viruses’. An enhanced version of Zip’s HydroTap, it delivers instant filtered boiling and chilled water.
Of the four protective barriers, the first is Zip’s MicroPurity filtration. The 0.2 micron, carbon-free filter reduces cysts by 99.99%, while ensuring that existing protective levels of chlorine remain in the water supply. SteriTouch, a ‘market- leading’ antimicrobial additive that reduces surface bacteria by 99.99%, is the second barrier, and the third is the inclusion of a Zip MicroPurity UV-C LED module for chilled water dispensing. This disinfects water as it is dispensed, reducing the chance of recontamination and common waterborne bacteria. The final element is the HydroCare
service plan, which Zip Water says ‘ensures that the system always performs to the highest levels of hygiene, efficiency, and reliability’.
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