Healthcare Estates Does your MGPS meet the standard?
Any hospital with a medical gas pipeline system (MGPS) will need an Authorising Engineer service to meet HTM 01-02 standards. BOC’s Richard Maycock, IEng MIHEEM
Vital Energi invests in healthcare team
Specialist in sustainable energy generation and management, Vital Energi, has appointed an established team of ‘healthcare energy specialists’ who, together, ‘have worked on more than 25 of the most significant NHS energy schemes carried out in the UK in the past 15 years’. Ashley Malin, project development
director, said: “Our aim is to assist Trusts and Health Boards to achieve sustainable year-on-year reductions in energy usage and generation costs. Vital Energi can not only design solutions for healthcare customers that encompass energy and carbon reductions, efficient generation, district heating, and improved infrastructure resilience, but also ones that address backlog maintenance.” IanWhitelock, joint MD, added: “Our
healthcare team collaborates closely with our energy management division to ensure that our proposals optimise the benefits achievable from monitoring, measuring, and reducing, energy consumption, in conjunction with the design of efficient and sustainable solutions for energy generation.”
‘Zero impact’
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Air Conditioning Europe (MHIACE) says it will introduce in Manchester ‘a unique product to the UK and European market’, following its ongoing success in Japan. The Q-ton CO2
technology heat pump is described as ‘both cost- effective and eco- friendly’, with a ‘zero impact on the ozone layer’. MHIACE says
it is the only product of its kind able to achieve a hot water temperature of 90˚C with a Coefficient of Performance (COP) greater than or equal to 4, and ambient air temperatures as low as –25˚C. The system also maintains a COP of over 2.3 at –25˚C.
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Maquet Hospital Solutions, a solutions provider at over 5,000 locations worldwide, says it offers ‘outstanding concepts for operating theatres, hybrid operating theatres, catheter laboratories, and intensive care units’. The company said: “For decades, the
name Maquet has been synonymous with innovative, complete concepts that ensure that the patient gets the best possible medical treatment, and that the hospital benefits from tried-and-tested solutions, increased efficiency, and cost savings. The focus is on providing the optimum solution for individual hospitals via a dedicated and experienced project team. “Each project has a Maquet project manager as the hospital’s single point-of-
(pictured) is AE for several NHS Trusts and private hospitals, and can also provide remote AP and AE services. He manages BOC’s
Healthcare’s Medical Engineering Services team, which provides a full range of services to ensure hospital medical gas pipeline systems meet the required standards. As the Authorising
Engineer, he will work with the Authorised Person (AP) to ensure that such systems
are managed in accordance with the standard; i.e. that relevant staff: Are familiar with the system, its valving, alarms, and emergency reserves.
Review relevant documentation, and management systems.
Have evidence of up-to-date training.
His team can also deliver training courses to ensure that estates, EBME, nursing, and portering staff, meet the HTM standard. Other services offered range from providing Operational Policy, ‘As- fitted’ drawings, and specification and design, to providing an Authorised Person, annual test and inspection, audits, and risk assessments.
Supporting the design of workplaces
Dräger has supported the design of workplaces in acute medical care settings for over 50 years, and ‘knows the challenges’ its customers face. The company said: “With our expertise in complex processes, we can work with
you to develop the right concept, and thus produce tailored, flexible, future- proof solutions.” At the Dräger Design Centre in Lübeck,
northern Germany, users and planners can work with Dräger experts to plan and design their medical workplaces ‘under realistic conditions’. Dräger’s bespoke 3D rendering software allows customers to visualise and test their design concepts. By simply ‘dragging and dropping’ the design elements, users can create a realistic representation of the clinical area, with equipment and personnel incorporated. A ‘walk-through’ function allows users to simulate the workplace layout.
‘Outstanding concepts’ and service
contact, from design through to handover and beyond. Healthcare facilities thus benefit from having a project manager who will deal with all sub-contractors and third parties throughout, has a vast level of experience, and will deliver a future- proof, state-of-the-art facility.”
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