HEALTHCARE ESTATES Your ‘partner in patient safety’
Kingsway Group says that ‘as your partner in patient safety’, it looks forward to ‘connecting’ with visitors at Healthcare Estates 2024. The company said: “Since last year’s
exhibition, we’ve continued innovating to advance design for mental healthcare environments and to support you in delivering excellence in care. At this year’s exhibition, we’re excited to share these new innovations with you, including our latest technology offering, the Serenity Interactive Panel. Co-produced with experts by experience, the fully customisable Serenity unit aims to support service-user wellbeing, aid de- escalation, and assist clinical teams in challenging environments.” Kingsway will also show its anti-ligature complete door systems and accessories,
Benefits of flow-through expansion vessels
Flow-through expansion vessels are designed to keep potable water moving through a system to prevent stagnation or contamination, Altecnic explains.
‘engineered to de-risk healthcare environments while contributing towards more therapeutic, healing spaces through compassionate design’. Stand visitors will also be able to hear about Kingsway’s new K-Care service, which is designed to support estates and facilities management teams with everything from compliance checks and reports to replacements and repairs.
With the debut of ‘two new innovative products’, the Trovex stand at this year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition is ‘a must- visit’, the company maintains. It said: “The Trovex product family, renowned for its hygienic, quick-to- install, easy-to-maintain, and durable properties, continues to set industry standards. Proudly designed and
manufactured in the UK,
Trovex stands out as the
only UK-based manufacturer offering a
comprehensive range of healthcare
Two ‘innovative new products’ to debut fire-rated doorsets, bedhead trunking,
integrated plumbing systems, low-level extraction, internal windows, and more. “Each product is finished in one of our hygienic PVC finishes, ensuring a consistent, high-quality finish across the complete family. Innovative features like flush vision panels on our fire-rated doorsets provide enhanced safety and visibility, while the continuous smooth hygienic finish with thermoformed corners on our integrated plumbing systems ensures easy cleaning and infection control. Our coordinated colours and finishes support wayfinding, and enhance healthcare facilities’ overall appearance. Experience the convenience of our unified product family, all designed to meet the stringent demands.”
Blending NHS experience with healthcare construction expertise
Royal Free London Property Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, and since 2019 it says it has helped its clients overcome similar challenges to those its
own staff face in managing, maintaining, and futureproofing one of the country’s largest acute teaching hospitals. Specialising in construction management, major service transformation, and providing property expertise, the team ‘blends traditional project management with an innovative
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and agile approach to delivery to enable excellent outcomes for our clients’. Leveraging a blend of NHS experience and construction industry knowledge, it offers: project and
programme management; cost and design oversight and management; change management and service transformation; target operating model design; programme management offices; business case development; strategic asset management and masterplanning, and procurement support.
It said: “The innovative design encourages flushing through the vessel, greatly reducing the opportunity for clusters to form. In a closed hot water circuit, the water cannot be compressed, so any increase in volume created by an increase in temperature must be accommodated by an expansion vessel. When water is cold, the pre-charge pressure forces the bladder to collapse until the pump is started, when the bladder starts to inflate.
“As the
temperature in the system increases, with the associated increase in pressure and volume, the
expanded water enters the bladder, creating additional volume, and lowering the pressure. When the temperature
falls, the pre-charge pressure forces the water from the bladder and back into the main water circuit.”
Altecnic says that when fitted with the PVACC Flowjet valve, the vessel is anti-Legionella, which further assists the constant movement of water to prevent stagnation. The PVACC Flowjet valve is supplied as an optional component with an Altecnic Reflex Flow Through Vessel. The valve enables four functions to be performed easily: n Continuous water flow through the bladder helps maintain the quality of the potable water by minimising stagnation.
n Isolation should the expansion vessel need to be removed.
n A drain facility. n Bypass.
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