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'Flexible access control solution' launched
Abloy UK has launched CLIQ Local Manager (CLM) Remote, enabling users to update key authorisations and make changes to schedules via wall programming devices, offering a flexible access control solution.
BESA backs ‘new and improved’ degree apprenticeships
Substantially revised degree apprenticeships for building services engineering will help employers plug critical skills gaps and launch more young people into rewarding careers, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).
Hospital hoardings at Seacroft Hospital bring Motor Neurone Disease stories to life
New hoardings at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s Seacroft Hospital in Leeds bring to life the location of the planned Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease, (MND) as the development to build the new centre progresses.
Siemens’ Building X expands fire safety offering
Siemens Smart Infrastructure is expanding its fire safety offering on Building X through newly launched applications and an application programming interface (API), ‘to increase transparency, decrease response time in case of incidents, and enhance maintenance processes for service-providers’.
Training on ‘intricacies of hospital lifts’
Among what IHEEM Knowledge Partner, PPL Training, describes as a ‘raft of new courses’ introduced by it during 2023 were several new HV electrical courses and – ‘specifically for healthcare estates and facilities teams’ – Authorised Person Lifts HTM 08-02 courses (including refresher training and Trapped Passenger Lift Release).
CABE and Building a Safer Future in ‘strategic partnership’
The Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and Building a Safer Future (BSF) have entered a new strategic partnership that they say focuses on supporting organisations in assessing their competency in relation to building safety – especially as regards higher-risk buildings (HRBs) as defined in the Building Safety Act.
Ensuring safe evacuation in emergencies
Security, entrance, and access solutions provider, dormakaba, has launched an escape route system designed to keep buildings and doors secure while allowing a safe means for evacuation in an emergency situation.
Partnership will broaden access to disability support technology
A new collaboration between leading UK patient hygiene specialist, TR Equipment, and disability technology experts, Innova Care Concepts, will widen access to an extensive range of products to support assisted bathing, showering, and rehabilitation needs across the UK, the two companies say.
Wernick Group launches its first Christmas advert
Wernick Group has just released a bespoke Christmas advertisement, ‘tailored to promoting the company’s proud history’ that stretches back to 1934, with a strong seasonal feel.
Help in interpreting and applying HTM 03-01 guidance
Critical cooling specialist, Airedale by Modine, has launched an HTM 03-01 ‘white paper’ to assist consultants, estate managers, and buying groups, within the healthcare sector interpret and apply HTM 03-01 guidelines.
NHP launches seeking Programme Delivery Partner procurement
The New Hospital Programme (NHP) has announced that the launch of the Programme Delivery Partner (PDP) procurement commenced on 29 November.
Capital funding must double for more productive and faster care, NHS Confederation report says
The NHS will not be able to deliver faster and more productive patient care unless capital budgets are nearly doubled to at least £14.1 billion, says a new analysis published in an NHS Confederation report, 'Investing to save. The capital requirement for a more sustainable NHS in England'.
IWFM anniversary research sets out ‘mega’ opportunity for ‘lynchpin’ sector
The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) has marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with the release of new research, ’30 years back, 3 trends for the future’, which says three ‘megatrends’ will affect workplaces ‘for years to come’.
New website provides resources on passive fire protection
The Passive Fire Knowledge Group (PFKG) says the recent launch of its new ‘knowledge hub’ website – www.pfkg.org – coincides with the release and publication of the first four ‘knowledge shares’.
Modular heat pumps for seaside Devon hospital
The Devon Partnership NHS Trust says it is cutting its energy consumption and carbon footprint via the upgrading the heating and cooling system at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish following the installation there of Mitsubishi Electric e-Series heat pump units.
Guidance on ‘technical challenges’ of designing risers issued
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has produced new guidance to address the technical challenges faced by engineers designing building services risers.
Tool ‘provides accurate picture’ of CHP performance
Technology company, ENTRNCE, describes its new ‘Carbon Matcher’ as ‘a unique data platform’ that calculates the half-hourly carbon footprint of onsite combined heat and power (CHP) versus conventional methods of heat and grid electricity.
Enhanced safety measures for workers on mobile elevating work platforms
Willmott Dixon is rolling out a new harness-based technology on its construction projects that it says will provide an even safer working environment for everyone using a boom-type mobile elevating work platform (MEWP).
Senior appointments at Community Health Partnerships
Community Health Partnerships has appointed two new Non-Executive Directors to its Board – Pete Cornforth and Eric Guillaume – for a three-year term.
North View to be England’s first ‘all-electric’ mental health unit
North View, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)’s new mental health unit currently under construction in North Manchester, will be England’s first all-electric mental health unit when it opens in 2024, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust says.
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