Health Sector News International award for Safesee door


Britplas’s Safesee door, featuring an opaque panel which is quickly switchable to ‘clear’ to allow patient observation, and which is designed, as a whole, as a ‘programmable scale’ that enables staff to set a trigger point for notification of ligature attempts, has won a major international award. The Safesee won the Product Design for


Healthcare Application award at the 2013 Design & Health International Academy Awards, staged recently during the 9th Design & HealthWorld Congress & Exhibition in Brisbane, Australia. The Product Design prize was awarded


‘for a product that adheres to human factor principles, is integrally installed in a healthcare environment, advances levels of


technical performance, and integrates with the setting designed to accommodate it’. The door’s opaque panel


ensures patient privacy, but, at the swipe of a card or a fob (for example, during observation rounds), can be rendered ‘instantly clear’ to allow viewing. The time and the name of the individual carrying out the observation are instantly logged – for an auditable record. Anti-ligature-wise, a design


team specifying the Safesee for a mental healthcare bedroom might, say, choose 40 kg as an alarm trigger point for an


Technology set to flush away ‘old habits’


Reaqua Systems, a business originally formed by Scottish Southern Energy to explore energy reduction and greywater reuse, and subsequently spun out under investment funding from Scottish Equity Partners and backed by Scottish Enterprise, has established a factory in Livingston, southern Scotland, to supply a new technology for collecting wastewater (greywater) from baths, showers, and sinks, and subsequently ‘recycling’ it for flushing toilets. Customers can optionally specify a


system that will also extract heat from greywater, before it is ‘recycled’, so that it can be fed back into a central heating system. The reAqua and reAqua+ units will, the company claims, both reduce water


consumption ‘by a third’, while the latter (with optional heat recovery) reportedly enables ‘a two-fold reduction’ in CO2


adult male ward, with a delay of 8 seconds before an alert is triggered. These parameters can be changed at any time using a simpleWindows programme, while any alerts are instantly logged. In addition, the door


opens inwards, but has an invisible, ‘instant release’ anti-barricade jamb operated by the same card or fob used for


observation. No keys or tools are required. In 2009 Britplas won the same award for its Safevent window.


Tougher flooring for busy areas


A ‘tougher’ high-performance vinyl flooring for busy public areas has been launched by Gerflor. The company said: “Architects,


emissions. Suitable for retrofit and new-build use,


the systems are designed to be easy to install and use. A revised plumbing set-up takes all wastewater frombaths and showers, redirecting it through a compact filtration unit, where it is treated with a disinfectant. This treated water is collected in a tank, and piped on, as required, to supply all flushing needs formultiple toilets.


‘Aspiration smoke detection’ CPD


Recent changes to EN54-20 legislation, and the introduction of next generation aspiration smoke detection ‘to provide earliest warning, accuracy, and flexibility’, are ‘just some of the aspects covered’ in a new CPD accredited presentation from Honeywell Life Safety. Its new seminar presentation, Utilising


fire alarm aspiration sensing technologies to deliver EN54-20 compliant very early stage smoke detection solutions to a broad range of challenging applications, is designed for consultants, specifiers, and installers, working in the fire system design, architectural, mechanical, and electrical contracting, and FM sectors.


Presenter Tim Checketts, responsible


for EMEA Sales within System Sensor, part of Honeywell Life Safety, said: “The presentation’s principal objective is to provide a clear understanding of how aspiration technologies, legislation, and associated system design tools, have evolved to enable applications such as hospitals, data centres, prisons, and warehouses, to benefit from the most effective fire protection.” The presentations are organised on


demand at venues chosen to suit attendees. There is no charge, presentations last for around an hour, and attendance qualifies towards the individual’s CPD record.


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specifiers, and contractors, will appreciate the improved colour choices, durability, and lighter weight, of new Mipolam Elegance.” Suitable for the healthcare, education, and retail sectors, the homogeneous flooring has a Group T wear rating, and comes in 33 contemporary colours. Treated with Evercare surface


treatment, Mipolam Elegance is ‘scuff- resistant’, and needs no waxing or acrylic polishes to maintain appearance, while the combination of Evercare with other treatments ensures that chemical stains can be safely and hygienically removed ‘with a minimum of water and detergent’.


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