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Halton health care solutions

Halton's aim is to create environments that enable wellbeing of people. Halton's solutions for health care facilities are designed to match patient and staff needs in each space type e.g. patient rooms, isolation rooms, laboratories etc. with the most suitable indoor environment solution. Optimal solution thus combines excellent, hygienic and safe conditions and flexibility in operation with sustainable building life. 

Solutions for various indoor environments
Halton provides solutions from patient rooms to isolation and treatment rooms. In addition, Halton has solutions for laboratories, commercial kitchens as well as for public spaces including offices and meeting rooms. Solutions are based on high quality air diffusion, air flow management, kitchen ventilation, air filtration and ventilation fire safety product ranges. Halton solutions have been installed to a large number of health care facilities around the world.

Halton solutions for health care facilities:

  • Patient care rooms:   Indoor environment solution should provide hygienic and cleanable environment  that enhances personal comfort and accelerates healing process. Halton's chilled beam system with temperature and velocity control for patient rooms offers low noise level, good thermal conditions and individual control of conditions.
  • Isolation rooms: Isolation rooms can be either positive pressure rooms (protective environments) for protecting immunocompromized patients, negative pressure rooms (airborne infection isolation) for patients with infectious diseases or rooms with positive and negative pressure. Halton offers control and monitoring of pressure conditions as well as Hepa filtration and air diffusion.  
  • Laboratory spaces: Laboratories are working places with local gas and particulate emissions as well as high local heat loads. Laboratory solution controls supply and exhaust air flows, operating pressure and temperature. Halton offers solutions for both individual fume cupboards and for the whole laboratory indoor environment:
    • Envirolab system takes care of laboratory indoor climate as a whole. It controls the exhaust and supply air flow rates, manages the temperature and operating pressure.
    • Laboset system controls an individual fume cupboard. The system maintains a constant velocity regardless of the hatch position. Velocity sensor located on the side of the fume cupboard transmits the measured velocity value to the damper that compares the value to the reference value and sends a signal to the fume cupboard flow damper or variable-frequency controller.
  • Research and treatment facilities are working places that have high and varying heat loads and sometimes contaminants. Halton offers displacement ventilation solutions for these spaces.
  • Institutional kitchens
  • Offices, meeting rooms and public spaces   

Support during the entire building life cycle
In health care projects, Halton is involved from design phase to the use and renovation of buildings. In the design phase, indoor environment conditions are tested with real scale tests in Halton's laboratories or with computer simulations. Halton offers also user-focused indoor environment management and development services. These services enable the verification of indoor environment conditions and user satisfaction as well as indoor environment analysis and problem solving.

References 

Halton chilled beam system at Sandwell Hospital









- Our experience with the operation of Chilled Beams is as follows: The Trust has chilled beams installed in a number of areas ranging from waiting rooms to ward environments in its Emergency Services Centre. To Date we have been very pleased with the operation of these units both from an environmental control and noise point of view. Clearly both of these issues are paramount in achieving a good patient experience. My experience of the operation of the Chilled beams is that they are virtually silent in operation and compare well if not better than more traditional forms of ventilation / air conditioning.”
Kevin Reynolds, Deputy Head of Estates (Operational) for Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

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Chilled beam system for Sandwell’s Emergency Services Centre

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