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Congleton War Memorial Hospital, part of East Cheshire NHS Trust, has recently installed a Multix Fusion from Siemens Healthcare. The system replaces a previous X-ray system that had come to the end of its life. Radiographers have remarked on the system’s high resolution images and the detail that they can now perceive along with user-friendliness and its ability to provide rapid image acquisition, helping to improve examination times and patient comfort.

Siemens has been chosen to supply, install and service 76 direct drive turbines at Vattenfall’s onshore wind farm Pen y Cymoedd in Wales. The wind power plant will be developed within the county boroughs of Neath Port Talbot and Rhondda Cynon Taf. The developer, Vattenfall, has contracted Siemens Wind Power to install 76 of its innovative SWP 3.0 direct drive wind turbines. The wind farm, with a total capacity of 228 megawatts (MW) will be the largest project with gearless turbines erected in Wales. It is also the largest ever contract for the Siemens 3MW direct drive turbine signed to date in the UK.

Siemens Healthcare’s Managed Equipment Services (MES) team has been recognised with a Silver Champions Award from Siemens UK for its work in rapidly and effectively setting up an Imaging Infrastructure Support Service (IISS) at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. The award was primarily secured by Trevor Mason, MES Regional Support Manager at Siemens Healthcare who was responsible for the initial delivery of excellent levels of customer service and establishing a robust set of processes for the large-scale 13 year project.

On Tuesday 16 July, 150 employees at Siemens gas turbine manufacturing business in Lincoln got the chance to air their views in a lively Question and Answer

The Crystal – a sustainable cities initiative by Siemens – has been certified ‘Outstanding’ by BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment), the world's fore-most environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings.

Siemens has announced the signing of its first order with Blue Energy, one of theUK’s leading developers of renewable energy infrastructure for the Middlewick windfarm located on the Dengie Peninsula, 3km east of Southminster, in Essex.

Siemens confirms that it will not be proceeding further in the Crossrail rolling stock procurement process.

Today marks the inauguration of the world’s largest offshore wind power plant, London Array. Siemens supplied the 175 wind turbines and the grid connection for London Array. Together with Dong Energy, Siemens will also be responsible for the service of the wind turbines through a long-term agreement. The wind power plant owned, developed and built by a consortium consisting of Dong Energy, E.ON and Masdar has a total capacity of 630 megawatts (MW) and will generate enough power to supply 500,000 British households with clean electricity. London Array will reduce annual CO2 emissions by approximately 900,000 tons, which equals the emissions of 300,000 passenger cars.

Siemens has been awarded a contract by Manchester City Council to supply unattended bus lane enforcement cameras to sites across the city. Working with Zenco Systems, the UK's leading supplier of bus lane enforcement equipment, the solution will enable Manchester City Council to identify unauthorised vehicles using the lanes restricted for the unhindered flow of buses, capture the event and prepare an evidential record to support the issue of an enforcement notice. The cameras are redeployable and will be moved around a number of locations to provide maximum coverage.

An enhanced version of the Siemens SLD4 loop detector family is now available from Siemens featuring sophisticated length based classification with configurable outputs which can be set to activate when specific conditions are detected, such as large vehicles exceeding a predefined speed. As well as offering standard vehicle detection the latest version of the SLD4 can also be used in specialised bus, tram and Light Rail Transport (LRT) schemes and other similar applications where excellent detection accuracy is required.

The Department for Transport has awarded a contract worth circa £1.6 billion for 1,140 new Desiro City commuter rail carriages for the Thameslink route to Siemens Plc and Cross London Trains, a consortium comprising Siemens Project Ventures GmbH, Innisfree Limited and 3i Infrastructure plc.

The Montefiore Hospital in Brighton, part of the Spire Healthcare group, has installed a MAGNETOM® Aera MRI scanner and SOMATOM® Definition AS CT system from Siemens Healthcare. The installations follow the recent opening of the hospital at the end of 2012 and enable the provision of musculoskeletal and oncology imaging services to patients. The imaging systems support the hospital’s ambitions for extended cardiac imaging capabilities.