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Key healthcare sector appointment for Bender


Supplier of turnkey operating theatre and power solutions, Bender UK, has appointed Ricky Barker – who has been with the company for over 15 years in healthcare engineering – as the new head of its Hospital Business Unit. During his time with the firm, he has worked in a variety of healthcare engineering roles, including in commissioning and project management, and


Ricky Barker.


latterly as Technical Service leader, and has supported ‘the steady growth and expansion’ of its Hospital Business Unit, for instance leading the Service Department.


Bender UK said: “Ricky Barker’s suitability for the role has recently been put to the test, as he has capably steered the Hospital Business Unit team through unchartered waters during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have witnessed a huge increase in demand for technical advice and design support, along with equipment


supply and installation, for Nightingale field hospital and critical HDU and ICU extension projects. Numerous hospitals have also sought confidence that their critical power systems are safe and resilient, with the Service team completing many essential maintenance and remedial works to ensure that systems can cope with extra demands for power from equipment used to treat coronavirus patients.” Ricky Barker added: “My knowledge and experience in previous roles are a major advantage when overseeing the Service, Sales, and Projects Departments. We are introducing more new products, such as glass touch panels, as a strategic move to address the specific demands of the UK market. Assembling these panels in the UK not only enables us to respond more quickly to customers’ needs, but also frees up manufacturing resource at our parent company in Germany.”


Kentec protect hospital against fire risk


Sigma XT gas suppression panels from life-critical control system manufacturer, Kentec Electronics, are protecting staff and patients at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow.


Vipond Fire Protection installed the fire safety systems within a seven-day turnaround. The system includes seven Sigma XT gas suppression panels, and 32


detectors located within the electrical room that serves the 10,000 m2


facility.


Kentec’s Sigma XT releasing panel provides three initiation circuits as standard, making release of the extinguishant configurable to activate from any combination of detection zone inputs. It also features a large LED display, simplifying configuration, and displaying the time remaining until release for added user safety. Gary White, Fire Alarm & Gas Suppression manager at Vipond Fire Protection, said: “Kentec is known for reliability, customers find its panels easy to use and configure, and with time a major factor here, speed was critical. As Kentec is a UK manufacturer, we knew panels would not have to be imported. We also knew it would do everything needed to ensure delivery on time.”


£4 m EPC should save Trust over £1.4 m annually


Specialist energy teams from Veolia have now extended the services they provide to United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT), with a wide-ranging programme of measures to be implemented under an Energy Performance Contract (EPC) expected to cut the Trust’s annual carbon emissions by 7,712 tonnes, provide £1.4 m in annual financial efficiencies, and ‘build long-term energy resilience, and enhance the patient care environment’. UHLT is among England’s largest acute hospital Trusts, with its three main hospitals – Lincoln County Hospital, Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, and Grantham and District Hospital – set to see their energy provision upgraded through the EPC, backed by a £4 million investment. Measures will include installing nearly 13,000 LED light fittings, new CHP plant, boiler enhancements, conversion of the steam system to a low temperature hot water network, and new electrical infrastructure upgrades and control systems for the three hospitals. The new plant will be operated and maintained by Veolia’s engineering teams for 15 years, with investment payback achieved in just over three. The works will build on the reductions achieved by Veolia at Lincoln Hospital, where around 64,000 tonnes of CO2 has been saved since 2004 – including via the ‘90k in 90 days’ initiative, a three-month challenge to engage staff to make regular, small, money-saving changes.


A ‘game-changer’ towards greater engineering skills recovery when the lockdown is lifted’.


‘Britain’s leading engineering brains’ at Enginuity, (formerly Semta), an employer-led manufacturing and engineering skills body supported by The Prince’s Trust, are harnessing the power of gaming to identify talent via a non- academic route that the proponents say can ‘power the nation’s economic


16 Health Estate Journal June 2020 The launch of Skills Miner,


from Enginuity, has been brought forward from the summer ‘to allow thousands of people in lockdown to have fun, and find out if they have what it takes to transit from the virtual to the real world of engineering’.


‘Sophisticated gaming techniques and algorithms’ monitor players’ performance, ‘and assess their aptitude for a whole raft of engineering skills’ – from Observation and Assessment, Resilience, and Digital Competency, to Problem Solving and Critical Reasoning.


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