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A challenging project successfully delivered


Fast-track modular building specialist, MTX, recently won the Building Better Healthcare Award 2019 for Best Modular/ Mobile Healthcare Facility for a two- storey orthopaedic operating theatre suite it has recently delivered to Guy’s Hospital in London.


MTX said: “We worked collaboratively with Johnson & Johnson Managed Service; early engagement allowed us to demonstrate the value, safety, speed, and efficiency benefits of a hybrid modular- based approach to the new theatre suite. Using BIM visualisations, and via close engagement with patients, staff, and the FM team, a fit-for-purpose and functional modular design was developed.” The offsite pre-fabricated units provide


850 m2


of new space over two storeys, with seamless access into the hospital at theatre suite level, blending current department activity and new operating facilities across different buildings and functions. “Due to the offsite factor,” added MTX, “the onsite activities were


minimised, which significantly reduced disruption to the hospital. This, in turn, decreased onsite trades, vehicle movements, and waste, lessening the impact of our activities on the environment.”


Due to London’s busy and congested streets, and the hospital’s 24-hour operation, the modular lift took place outside normal working hours, programmed over a single weekend, with the entire building installed through a 48-hour continuous shift, minimising impact on operations and neighbours, and reducing risks and accelerating programme.


Calculating the air pollution of plant


The Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) has launched a tool to help healthcare estates and facilities teams measure the impact on air pollution of stationary sources such as gas boilers, electricity generation, and waste incineration plant. Early November’s launch of the new Health Outcomes from Stationary Sources Tool (HOST) followed the Unit’s unveiling earlier in 2019 of the Health Outcomes from Travel and Transport Tool (HOTT) – designed to help NHS


organisations quantify and report on the scale of air pollution from travel and transport. The Unit said: “Healthcare engineers can use HOST to quantify the Quality Adjusted Life Years lost from air pollution emissions from heat and power used on NHS sites, and to test out scenarios for reducing their organisation’s emissions, and to prioritise reducing air pollution.” HOST includes DEFRA damage cost information, combined with Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC) data.


Seven-year soft FM contract won


Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has awarded ISS Facility Services Healthcare the contract to deliver non-clinical soft FM services across the Trust, after an extensive tender process.


The seven-year contract will see ISS deliver services to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Lewisham, and the associated community sites. This represents a contract retention for it at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and will see some 400 staff transfer to ISS from University Lewisham Hospital. The contract award has enabled both the Trust and ISS to introduce change and innovation ‘across the board’. ISS will invest over £4 m in new equipment and technology, and continue focusing on developing its people through the ISS Academy model, which it says ‘will enable operational and transformational change’.


The Trust’s CEO, Ben Travis, said: “We involved staff and the public in the tendering process over the last year, to ensure that the new contract for these services meets our needs. We are excited about working with ISS, and about the range of improvements it will be introducing.” ‘New and exciting elements’ will include an on-site Training Academy, to fully train new employees before they start their new patient-facing roles.


ISS will provide services including patient and retail catering, healthcare cleaning, window cleaning, pest control, portering and mailroom, linen and laundry, accommodation management, waste management, and helpdesk and switchboard.


Largest intake yet for ‘unique’ healthcare engineering degrees Eastwood Park says supplementing this


Eastwood Park says it was delighted last year to see the healthcare sector ‘continue to recognise the value’ of its ‘unique’ engineering degrees, with over 50 students joining in 2019 – its largest degree intake yet.


The training establishment said: “Following 2018’s record-breaking numbers, this large group of participants comprised returning students well established in their studies, and three new cohorts – including those continuing their studies onto our BSc programme, having already completed an Eastwood Park Foundation degree. The degrees are all work-based qualifications, which means learners can progress in their roles in the workplace, and put learning directly into practice.”


16 Health Estate Journal January 2020


with attendance at study weekends also allows students and tutors to get to know each other, and to discuss the modules in more detail. Students get one-to-one guidance, individual learning planning sessions, and intensive support in engineering maths and science if required. Learners also benefit from access to hospital equipment and building services installations, and lectures from ‘industry experts’. Eastwood Park is partnered with Staffordshire University to deliver the degrees. Last year the University achieved a Gold award for learning and teaching quality in the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF). The training centre is already ‘welcoming


contact’ from those considering joining its 2020 intake. Those interested can choose from: n A Foundation degree in Hospital Engineering.


n A Foundation degree in Medical Equipment Technologies.


n A BSc (Hons) degree in Management of healthcare engineering technologies & facilities.


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