Eight units for Home Group have been completed. Built in partnership with STG, the development of two bed bungalows and two and three bed houses adds to six units designed by P+HS over 10years ago.

P+HS has done it again!  Following last year’s success with Laing O’Rourke for Grindon Lane, P+HS has again won the local Building for Excellence Award for Best Healthcare Building for the Washington Primary Healthcare building.  Well done to everyone involved!

For those who didn’t get to the RIBA, this is the link to Tim Soar’s series of architects in their offices for the AJ - all the great names… [including P+HS of course!].

The Department of Health has reinforced its position on bed space standards for in-patient accommodation to combat hospital acquired infections.

Bed spaces width is 3.6m to provide suffucient space for clinical activities, meet manual handling requirements including hoists, meet disability access requirements including wheelchairs and provide a suitable environment for privacy and dignity. Refer to HFN 30 - Infection Controlin the Built Environment. The standards relate both to new build and to major reconfiguration schemes.

Breaches of health and safety could lead to imprisonment, a top law firm has warned

The Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 comes into effect today (16 January 2009).
See complete article in the Architects Journal here.

Author: Kaye Alexander.