DiMH 2022 AWARDS


Pineapple Contracts says its Seal seating range was ‘specifically designed to reduce risk and maximise hygiene in challenging environments’.


Product Innovation


environments can become the target of damage. Alongside reducing the furniture’s life and causing replacement costs, compromised seams can provide concealment opportunities. Conventional sofas’ significant gaps and crevices around the seat cushion may also be used to conceal contraband, while where incontinence is common, seams and stitch-lines pose hygiene risks. Although water-resistant upholstery is available, fluid can still seep through stitch-lines, soaking the cushion filling. Once this happens, it is very difficult to effectively clean and dry the foam.”


Absence of seams or gaps “Our Seal range aims to address these issues,” Pineapple added, “with its smooth continuous shape, and absence of seams or gaps, helping minimise concealment opportunities.” Seal’s comfortable soft foam core is enveloped by a durable, water-resistant outer skin, and the hygienic surface can be easily cleaned with a 0.1% sodium hypochlorite solution and quickly dried, ‘ready for immediate re-use’. Additional ballast can be added, while the underside features a flush base panel to prevent concealment, secured with anti- tamper fixings. The judges said: “Simple but effective design, creating a really good product.” The award was presented by Jonathan Campbell to Garth Johnston, Area Business manager, and Lottie Barron, Client account executive, of Pineapple Contracts.


A ‘safer way to store personal belongings’ The SoftBox from Balco Global – a durable and resistant box made of a vinyl fabric, described as ‘the safer way to store personal belongings’, was Highly Commended. Balco says the SoftBox is ‘robust’, and can be twisted, flattened, or pulled, and retains its shape. Fire-retardant, it can be printed with colours and artworks, and features stitched and welded seams ‘for additional infection control, strength, and security’. Available in a standard 30 cm


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size, it can also be produced in bespoke sizes. Dirt-resistant, its surface finish makes it easy to clean.


Art Installation Andy Powell announced that the next award presented would be for best Art Installation, with Mersey Care’s Rowan View the winner. Light artist, Jessica Lloyd-Jones, designed a series of sensory installations at Rowan View, service-users having discussed the importance of bringing nature and light in. The artwork was ‘inspired by the natural world, using optical materials and light to evoke themes of weather and natural phenomena’. Elements of the sun, wind, rain,


and aurora borealis, all feature in four commissioned artworks: l ‘Sun Catcher’ – optical lighting of blown glass ‘raindrops’ suspended in the main atrium reception area. During sunlight the work projects spectral colours around the space, slowly changing in response to the time of day, weather patterns, and seasons. As evening falls, the work glows, with energy-efficient


fibre optics enhancing the prismatic effects within each raindrop.


l The main corridor contains an immersive light installation, ‘Aurora’, ‘designed to bathe the walkway in soft hues of pink and blue, creating a welcoming, uplifting atmosphere’. Within the corridor, the artwork animates the wall with gentle moving colours and light patterns, linked to music.


l In the central corridor the art aids wayfinding – ‘by dotting the walls with optical lenses that change colour from different angles’. Different tones correspond to each ward. The work was inspired by the formation of rainwater droplets on leaves.


l Outside in the passive garden there is a ‘Shimmer Tree’ – a wind-responsive sculpture that references nature. The entry says: “As a focal point it is both calming and meditative. Soft metallic iridescent leaves are designed to catch the breeze and create a sense of light and movement.”


The judges liked ‘the idea of lights and


Art Installation


Outside in the passive garden at Rowan View there is a ‘Shimmer Tree’ – a wind-responsive sculpture that ‘references nature’.


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