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McAvoy wins place on £500m public sector framework
Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the UK’s largest public sector procurement organisation, has awarded four lots on its new £500 m Modular Building Solutions framework to The McAvoy Group. Under the agreement, McAvoy has secured the opportunity to provide bespoke modular buildings and interim hire facilities with a particular focus on education and healthcare. The framework also covers public buildings such as facilities for the emergency services, the MOD, community centres, offices, care homes, student accommodation, and other residential schemes. It will operate for the next four years, and covers England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. This is the fourth consecutive CCS framework McAvoy has been awarded, and follows a rigorous independent assessment process. The Group was successful in winning a number of major free school projects under the previous CCS modular building contract, which were built off site. CEO, Eugene Lynch, said, “Long-term frameworks are very important to our business, and a major source of new
‘Engineered for safety’
Polyflor’s new Polysafe Stone fx PUR collection – ‘developed to capture the beauty and authenticity of stone and concrete surfaces’ – is a distinctive safety flooring collection ‘designed for engaging interior environments requiring the assurance of sustainable wet slip resistance’.
contracts, helping us to continue to grow sustainably. We look forward to working with CCS over the next four years. The advantages of offsite construction for new public sector facilities are proven and clear. We can reduce build programmes by up to 50 per cent, and offer significant quality improvements. Our approach also provides much greater certainty of delivery on time and on budget.”
The photo shows ongoing construction on the McAvoy Group’s largest healthcare project to date – a £15m contract for the offsite construction of a new wing at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington.
‘Smart medicine dispenser’ wins Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
A 31-year-old electrical engineer, Neo Hutiri, has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2019 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation – the first South African to win the prize – for he and his team’s Pelebox smart locker system designed to dispense medicine to patients with chronic conditions.
Used at public
healthcare facilities in South Africa, reportedly cutting down on long queues, Pelebox is a simple ‘wall of lockers’ controlled by a digital
system. Healthcare workers stock the lockers with prescription refills, log the medicine on the system, and secure each locker. Pelebox then sends patients a ‘one-time’ PIN, which they use to open their locker and access their medicine. Neo Hutiri won the £25,000 first prize, with four finalists from across sub- Saharan Africa delivering presentations at an awards ceremony in Kampala, Uganda, on 4 June, and the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voting for the most promising engineering innovation.
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The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, founded by the RAE in the UK, is described by the Academy as ‘Africa’s biggest prize dedicated to
engineering innovation’. Now in its fifth year, it encourages talented sub-Saharan African engineers from all disciplines ‘to develop innovations that address crucial problems in their communities in a new and appropriate way’.
Pelebox gives patients access to their medicine within 36 seconds – particularly significant in South Africa, which has the world’s biggest antiretroviral therapy programme, with over 4.7 million patients collecting monthly treatments from public clinics.
Leedscourseon ‘specialist ventilation’
A four-day course being run by the University of Leeds in conjunction with the NHS at the city’s Weetwood Hall Hotel from 5-8 November will focus on the topic, ‘Specialised ventilation in healthcare premises – creating a suitable environment, and its role in infection control’.
To register, visit the course website,
https://engineering.leeds.ac.uk/short- course/39 (credit/debit card payments), or email
cpd@healthcare.leeds.ac.uk for a manual booking form. For any queries, email
cpd@healthcare.leeds.ac.uk, or call Jenna, on 0113 343 5746.
It features ‘virtually invisible’ aluminium oxide particles integrated throughout the performance layer ‘to provide a safety flooring which is both functional and beautiful’. Polyflor said: “These safety particles ensure that Polysafe Stone fx offers full HSE compliance and sustainable wet slip resistance, achieving 36+ on the pendulum wet test and a ramp test of R10. Polysafe Stone fx also conforms to the EN 13845 European safety flooring standard.”
Tom Rollo, UK and International marketing director, added: “Polysafe Stone fx has been neatly aligned to our Polysafe Wood fx collection, and can be used in front-of-house environments, where we see significant opportunities for the products to work together in engaging interior design schemes.”
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