CONTENTS IHEEM REGULARS 5 COMMENT
5 COVER STORY: BRANDON MEDICAL RESPONDS TO COVID-19 DEMAND
7 INSTITUTE NEWS
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
FEATURES 21 ‘CAN DO’ SPIRIT FROM LONDON NIGHTINGALE TEAM
Craig Smith, head of Corporate Affairs at ISS, and National Chair of the Hospital Caterers Association, explains how ISS Healthcare addressed the challenge of being invited to provide the overall soft FM lead at the new NHS Nightingale Hospital London in the capital’s Docklands.
29 PASSIVE DESIGN PRINCIPLES AT HILLSIDE CLINIC
A clinic in South Africa’s Western Cape in an arid climactic zone that serves a local population battling for financial survival has been built with an emphasis on balancing reduced energy consumption with acceptable indoor temperatures. Equally important were a reduced carbon footprint during construction, the creation of local employment opportunities, and developing local skills.
35 BETTER HEALTHCARE FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Macy Koochek, Golnaz Rakhshan, and Barbara Budenz of Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning, discuss how two recently completed healthcare facilities in Canada have been designed to meet the needs of predominantly indigenous populations.
39 SUCCESSFUL WEEK WITH TOMORROW’S ENGINEERS Encouraging able new entrants into healthcare engineering and estates management, and wider STEM roles, is a key IHEEM priority. IHEEM's STEM Ambassador, Monira Kaouech, recently held workshops in schools and colleges in North-East England, to give young people a flavour of a career in healthcare engineering and estate management and wider engineering.
45 CIRCADIAN LIGHTING & BIOPHILIC REFURBISHMENT
The impacts on health and wellbeing of circadian lighting in buildings are being investigated in two research projects by building science centre, BRE. One compares the effects on people of a dynamic lighting system, and the other examines the biophilic refurbishment of a building, including lighting’s role. The aim is to provide evidence for the health and wellbeing benefits of circadian lighting and other aspects of biophilic design.
50 OPTIMAL DISINFECTION AT A CHALLENGING TIME Dr Tim Sandle, a chartered biologist with a first-class honours degree in Applied Biology, and a Masters degree in education, who is an honorary tutor with the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Manchester, discusses the key considerations when choosing from the plethora of different cleaning and disinfection products available for use in healthcare facilities.
55 NHS ‘SUPERCENTRE’ FULFILS KEY TRUST AMBITION
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust’s vision for a new standalone decontamination centre in Enfield to bring together such services from its three hospitals – some housed in ageing and cramped facilities – under one roof, in one modern, well-equipped ‘supercentre’, was successfully realised last year thanks to a partnership with CFES as main contractor, and specialist equipment supplier, Getinge.
61 REPUTATION PAVES THE WAY FOR EXPANSION
An Army-trained engineer whose father produced one of the first AGS receiving systems based on the BSRIA design commissioned by the DHSS, which was later incorporated into the British Standard, and who spent many boyhood hours in his father’s factory, has seen his hard work, determination, and regular long hours in a 35-year career pay off. He and his business partner now manage and own four separate medical and industrial gas companies that serve a broad spectrum of customers across the UK and overseas.
67 THE EXPERTISE OF EXTERNAL BENCHMARKERS
The healthcare sector faces an unprecedented set of challenges, that include providing an ever higher quality of service without increasing costs. Healthcare estates and facilities management personnel are among those tasked with ‘delivering more from less’. Mike Boxall, managing director of FM best practice benchmarking specialist, Sitemark, discusses benchmarking’s key role in enabling such professionals to achieve these seemingly contradictory goals.
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