Balancing the provision of clean air into the critical Healthcare environment with an ever increasing need to save energy and move towards net carbon zero, this presentation will explore how it is possible to achieve the highest levels of filtration to protect human health whilst reducing energy consumption to help towards your net carbon zero goals

• - The Decarb conundrum in healthcare estates
• - Identify the pain points
• - Working with client to build and execute the optimum solution
• - JCI solutions for Low/medium/high temperature carbon-free solutions
• - End-to-end engagement to help achieve decarb goals

Anjub will explore the issues currently being presented around Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete, more commonly known as RAAC. He will explain what RAAC is, why it is a problem, and look at ways to manage RAAC issues:

- What is RAAC?
- Why is it presenting such an issue across public buildings?
- Guidance on how to manage RAAC issues

Understanding the risk of infection transmission within drinking water.
• How UV-C purification, carbonless filtration and advances in design and technology mitigate the risk of infection within drinking water.
• The benefits of providing safe and hygienic drinking water to patients and staff.

This CPD explores the current UK standards landscape that applies to Cable Management Systems which don't currently require any fire testing and offers an alternative standard as a solution to those looking for reassurance that their installations meet the requirements of both BS7671:2019 and BS8519:2020.

Hydrogen day - The simplest route to net zero is to take approved low carbon hydrogen from a repurposed gas system. Hydrogen will be the same price as gas and is the only way that steam/MTHW sites can become green and retain steam. This session will include electrolyser opportunities for NHS sites that meet certain criteria.

This presentation gives an overview and summary to specifiers and installers of lighting control equipment for hospitals. The seminar considers types and methods of control, including a look at technical guidance and industry drivers. Monitoring and maintenance are also considered along with relevant Regulations and Standards.

Presentation focused on the important features Monocholramine and its superior action within water services.

Waste costs are on the rise again and doing the same things and expecting different outcomes will never improve our overall situation. The vision is to make waste work for trusts to bring to life the circular economy and possibilities for making waste work to generate income and reduce the amount organisations burn or bury. The session will cover the innovative processes employed, how organisations can collaborate and innovate solutions for them and how this can all save money and carbon impact.

Presentation talks about problems NHS Trusts find themselves in when trying to replace old AHU’s, how energy related regulations have resulted in much larger AHU’s, and what products/solutions exist to combat this issue

Establishing a business case across multiple decision chains
De-risking innovation
Monitoring and reporting

Tarkett are a worldwide leader in flooring solutions; including Healthcare where we are one of the largest suppliers in the world.
Our investment into the product performance and Sustainability speaks for themselves.
With a clear focus on Sustainability and pioneers of the Circular Economy we (Tarkett) aim to bring an understanding and merger of 2 key areas in the NHS and material selection: impact on the environment, Lifecyle and Maintenance.
Sustainability and the Circular Economy have almost become daily phrases in everyday life - certainly within the built environment and refurbishment schemes – we aim to provide knowledge and case study examples of how this can be brought to life.
Lifecyle and Maintenance are imperative when selecting products and has a direct correlation with Sustainability. Afterall, if we don’t need to replace or can extend a product or service with minimum effort that our impact on the environment and of course budgets are considered.
Even when we do need to replace the initial investment of the original product has a significant impact; again we will draw on our experiences to provide successful insights into this area.
Learning outcomes:
Understand correlation between Lifecycle and Sustainability
Understanding of the importance of Eco-Design and Circular solutions
Understanding of Lifecyle analysis

• Toilet plume generation and its potential for spreading pathogens – Review of current information.
• Unlocking new potential - Vacuum drainage design, construction, operation and flexibility
• Royal Cornwall Hospital – Learnings, project concept to patient experience.

Noise detrimentally affects both patients and staff in healthcare with the sound environment linked to stress, heart rate, blood pressure, and mental health.

Manual reporting processes can tie up hundreds of hours of resource; teams must not only collect data from different sources and spreadsheets but also check accuracy, reformat data points for consistency, then create combined reports. This not only uses up precious resource hours but increases the risk of human error creeping in at every stage.
With all the information you need to report on facilities, energy, waste and space management integrated into a single source of truth, you can provide over 80% of the data points required for your ERIC submission in just a few clicks.

1. The Difference Between Operational & Strategic Data – Is there one?
2. Current Reporting Methodologies
3. Industry Tools Used

Different regulations and guidelines require a maximum temperature for cold water in plumbing installations between 20 to 25°C to control the growth of Legionella and other water-borne pathogens to minimize the health risk of the water consumers.
Even though these requirements exist, the cold-water temperatures in most installations are checked / controlled inadequate.
Reasons for increased cold-water temperatures are:
- Global warming leads to increased environmental and ground temperatures.
- Increased energy tightness of building envelopes.
- Low / reduced water consumption (water saving fixtures in standard sized installations).
- Design & installation errors.
There are different solutions available to tackle the problem and its different reasons. Before active measures are taken, passive measures should be realized:
- Separate hot from cold pipework.
- Design an installation with minimum water content.
- Sufficient water exchange / no stagnation.
- Cold water circulation and cooling.
As every building is unique, the application of each single or a combination of above solutions can lead to the optimum operation and best economic installation:
- Good comfort - minimal time to tap.
- Good water quality / hygiene.
- Optimum invest and operating cost ratio.
- Space saving.
Experience shows that the water exchange by normal cold water consumption is usually too low to maintain a temperature below required limits. And additional water exchange measures can lead to a high amount of water being wasted to maintain temperature. This depends on the building layout and how well the installation is designed. In such cases a cold water circulation including cooling is a very effective solution. This has been proven in several installations already

It's not a western & NO COWBOYS allowed!! We'll be looking at designs from a MEP Consultants viewpoint, looking at what are the easy wins, biological control measures in MEP design, then followed by how sustainable healthcare can operate. Have you ever experienced projects that have gone so right & other times so wrong? We'll be questioning as to whether Value Engineering (VE) is always the best option / compromise. Would the pro-active approach be accepted as a higher cost at installation, to save on running / maintenance costs later? And finally, is it easy to retrofit? VE'd items after the initial installation & can that be an option in the space planning?

A technical paper that clarifies and untangles the performance requirements for acoustic and hygienic ceilings for UK healthcare premises, referencing relevant standards, regulations, and guidance.

Offers a detailed assessment of the resilience of ceilings to hygiene and cleaning whilst simultaneously achieving good acoustic absorption, and pleasing design; further considerations discussed include acoustic privacy, fire safety, particle emissions, pressurised spaces, humidity resistance, sustainability and light reflectance.

A further chapter looks at the varying performance and design requirements relevant to each specific room or space within healthcare environments, whilst also demonstrating good ceilings design to enhance the experience of room occupants, whether staff, patients, or visitors

The universal problem with patient access to wheelchairs and inefficient wheelchair management at hospitals can be solved.
The importance of looking outside the box, testing new innovations - having the courage to venture into new waters and trial innovation
The importance of cooperating and spreading the word about good practices to break the status quo and improve patient experience and wheelchair management at other NHS trusts.

Over recent years, new microbiological techniques have amplified both the number and types of organisms identified as part of routine water hygiene monitoring. Increased demands are being placed on Estates staff to further develop water hygiene strategies based on clinical risk rather than a site-wide approach.

A variety of techniques are used to maintain water hygiene across healthcare estates, ranging from simple temperature monitoring of hot and cold services, through to secondary disinfection of biocides such as copper-silver ions, hydrogen peroxide and chlorine dioxide. Often these solutions are delivered across the estate, from a single dosing and control point, backed up by manual testing and monitoring at sentinel outlets across the estate.

In this presentation, Alistair Cameron, CEO of Scotmas Group, a leading provider of chlorine dioxide based disinfection solutions to the NHS examines how new low cost, multi-parameter monitoring equipment available from a variety of manufacturers can be integrated into secondary disinfection systems in order to provide a proportionate response to microbiological challenges in different clinical risk areas.