COMMENT IHEEM The key role of STEM Ambassadors


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The news in this month’s Institute News (page 12) section that IHEEM’s Project Support officer, Monira Kaouech, has enrolled as a STEM Ambassador, and is urging IHEEM members to do the same, and – where possible – to join her on planned visits to schools and colleges across the UK to discuss their career highlights and encourage more young people into engineering, is welcome – especially given the extent to which the UK will need more engineers over the next 5-10 years.


According to the EngineeringUK report, Engineering UK 2018: the state of UK engineering, in the period 2014-2024, 124,000 Level 3+ core engineering roles would need to be filled every year simply for the UK to have a sustainable, adequately skilled engineering workforce able to compete on the world stage. Currently, however, the report notes ‘a critical shortfall in engineering skills across qualification levels and core and related engineering occupations’. The same report says a further 79,000 positions requiring ‘a mixed application of engineering knowledge and skill alongside other skillsets’ would need to be filled annually over the same 10-year period to meet the same goals.


IHEEM is among a number of professional COVER STORY


Optimising HVAC operation in healthcare facilities


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Critical heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning applications for healthcare estates require an added level of ongoing optimisation to safeguard patient wellbeing, says Armstrong Fluid Technology. To enable hospitals to maintain comfort conditions, the company has developed Pump Manager, part of the Armstrong Active Performance Management Suite, to operate with its comprehensive range of Design Envelope pumps. This is a cloud-based application which leverages ‘the embedded intelligence and connectivity’ available through Armstrong Design Envelope pumps to offer healthcare estates managers continuous optimisation for maximum efficiency. The company explained: “Online trending and analysis across multiple parameters on single pumps, or on an aggregated basis for multiple pumps, assists in identifying performance degradation, and allows a predictive, proactive approach to users. These real-time insights and alerts report issues such as excessive vibration, a broken coupling,


or deadhead, should they occur, or conditions such as impeller imbalance, bearing failure, seal failures, and shaft misalignment, that would impact on pump operation if undetected. Potential problems are identified long before they become an issue for patients, ensuring that pumps maintain commission status levels of operation throughout their lifetime. Hospitals worldwide are installing Armstrong pumps to ensure comfortable conditions, and make significant energy savings.” This month’s front cover shows the Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, which relies on Armstrong chilled water and condenser water pumps, controlled by an Integrated Plant Controller (IPC)11550, to keep the building cool. The full Methodist Dallas Medical Center case study can found at


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engineering bodies keen to play its part in encouraging youngsters into the profession, particularly given that, with a high proportion of more experienced healthcare estates and healthcare engineering personnel now close to retirement, securing a sufficient incoming stream of able, enthusiastic, and suitably qualified replacements is surely key to the efficient future running, maintenance, and upkeep, of healthcare facilities. Monira Kaouech was encouraged to become a STEM Ambassador by the IHEEM Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (HEJ – September 2018), part of whose remit is to attract more women and individuals from diverse ethnic and other backgrounds to secure a ‘better balanced’ workforce. Underlining this goal’s importance, several members of the Group, as well as Women’s Engineering Society CEO, Elizabeth Donnelly, will speak on related topics, and especially on the challenges their own careers have brought them as women, at this year’s Healthcare Estates event. See pages 7-9 of this issue, and September’s full event preview, for details.


Jonathan Baillie I Editor jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


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