BESA says the publication is the latest initiative in its campaign to improve building safety standards in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. It also follows the warning it issued last year that annual maintenance inspections were uncovering a significant number of incorrectly installed dampers that did not comply with manufacturers’ instructions. DW 145

It is relocating its HQ from Victoria Works on Lorne Street, Farnworth, Bolton, where it has had a base for almost 150 years, to a 33,000 ft2 two-storey detached unit at Logistics North on Bolton’s Lomax Way. The site’s extensive shopfloor space will accommodate Howorth’s pharma assembly operations, plus offices housing medical and pharmaceutical operations,

The development will include five new and repurposed buildings, ranging from three to 13 storeys. Allies and Morrison have designed three of these buildings, with Gibson Thornley responsible for the remaining two. They are expected to be completed by 2028. Supported by Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary University of London, the Greater London Authority,

The partnership, celebrated at a recent signing event (see photo), will introduce new pathways in healthcare and life sciences, and new training opportunities to local communities and students across London, with a ‘state-of-the-art facility’ at the College in Walthamstow. Part of the Barts Health Futures initiative, it will provide a range of educational programmes, including

This Welsh healthcare provider’s third MES term with the technology specialist follows a competitive tender bid which involved extensive equipment evaluations across a range of clinical specialities. The ultrasound leadership team in radiology were instrumental in leading the Health Board-wide tender process. Canon Medical says the decision to extend the long-standing partnership with it to

Development of the £16 million Trowbridge Integrated Care Centre has begun opposite the town’s current community hospital to make way for the new facility which, once fully open, will become the new home for many of the services based within the outdated current hospital buildings. The building is being developed by NHS Property Services and

The Health Board provides healthcare for more than 700,000 people across the six counties of north Wales – Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Wrexham). The works, the latest in a series of projects that SITE has conducted for the healthcare provider in recent years, have upgraded a series of key infrastructure areas, replacing technology that

Wakefield Hospice has ‘brought the outside inside’ with a series of LED panels from Visualite, transforming the look and feel of corridors and rooms across the building, after winning £10,000 in a Visualite healthcare sector competition, and having the panels installed free by a local contractor. The sensory lighting panels create the effect of natural

He says: “The suitability of hybridisation with gas and electric energy sources depends largely on the equipment’s design and operational characteristics, particularly in differentiating between steam boilers and steam generators. Healthcare estates require reliable and efficient steam systems to support a wide range of critical applications, including sterilisation, heating, and humidification. Given the sector’s focus

LIFT(Local Improvement Finance Trust) public-private partnerships have provided 350 health centres across England since being established in 2001. Community Health Partnerships (CHP), head tenant in 308 of the buildings, commissioned the report from PwC. The professional services firm’s independent analysis, presented in its report, The NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT): Occupancy Cost Assessment, finds

The Welsh Government’s support for public sector bodies in Wales to make their buildings and assets more energy efficient includes the Re:FIT Cymru programme, which it says enables the Welsh public sector to secure guaranteed savings and reduce carbon impacts by accessing Energy Performance Contracts. To aid what it says is ‘a move to a

Building Services Engineering (BSE) Skills is urging employers, employees, and other stakeholders who can provide the expertise, experience, and understanding of the sector to help them ensure that the NOS are technically fit for purpose. With the industry-facing a growing skills shortage, BSE Skills says it is ‘more important than ever’ that the standards which

This latest development marks Compliance Group’s second addition to its electrical testing division this year, after Intersafe joined the Group back in April. The company says it underpins its ‘commitment to comprehensive service delivery and specialised expertise across all three of it verticals’.  Compliance Group said: “Established in 2001, ETM has a proven track record

Described as  ‘a demand-driven, customised Internet of Things (IoT) platform with over 7,000 IoT sensors’, the project will –  Siemens Smart Infrastructure says – ‘ensure a user-centric patient experience, improved patient care, increased energy efficiency, and optimised operations’. The technology and infrastructure specialist explained: “An open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator enables customers to accelerate

Based at its Manchester office, and working for clients across the UK, Kate – who has over two decades’ property industry experience, joins the firm’s valuation team from Cushman and Wakefield. In her new role she will carry out valuations and provide strategic property advice for a range of healthcare providers including nursing and specialist