A network outage, a failed nurse call, or a fire alarm that misfires is not an inconvenience in a hospital. It is a patient-safety event. Yakkaservices designs, integrates, tests and supports the systems behind your building under one contract.
Yakkaservices integrates the building systems behind a hospital. Here is where that work fits, and where it does not.
When a hospital needs several systems designed, integrated, and certified together, and when one team is accountable for how they work as a whole.
If you need to replace a single system, say one fire panel or one camera run, a focused specialist contractor will often do it faster. That is the right call.
If you are buying medical devices, a hospital information system, or electronic health records, that is clinical IT, you want a healthcare software vendor. We design the physical infrastructure those systems run on, not the clinical applications.
Operating theatres, intensive care, and emergency run through the night, through a power dip, through a network fault. Your building systems carry that load: the clinical network, the nurse call at every bedside, the ventilation holding an isolation room at the right pressure. When one fails quietly, your clinical teams find out at the worst possible moment.
Isolation rooms must hold negative pressure and operating theatres positive pressure, both monitored continuously to ASHRAE Standard 170. Before you admit a single patient, the accreditation body and the local fire authority will inspect all of it.
Patients in surgery or on ventilators cannot walk out, so the fire strategy moves them zone by zone through fire compartments. That only works when your fire alarm, smoke control, and door release act as one system.
Every clinical system you depend on rides on the same physical infrastructure. We design, integrate and certify these six systems so they work together, not just alongside each other.
Every clinical system rides the same network: imaging, electronic records, medication systems, and the phones at the nurses' station. We design and certify the cabling to TIA-568-D (2018) and ISO/IEC 11801:2017, with the resilience that keeps a ward online when a switch or link fails.
ICT infrastructureA nurse call is the fastest path between a patient in distress and the person who can help. We integrate it so a call escalates, reaches the right staff member on the right device, and logs a response time you can audit, following your staff, not stuck at a wall panel.
ELV systemsMaternity, paediatrics, pharmacy, and the drug store each need a different rule about who gets through the door. Access control and CCTV let you set those rules by zone, role, and time. Lock-down and infant-protection logic is designed in, not bolted on after an incident.
ELV systemsAir is clinical equipment in a hospital. The BMS holds theatres at positive pressure and isolation rooms at negative, monitored continuously to ASHRAE Standard 170. Built on BACnet, Modbus, and KNX, it also shows energy use by department.
Building management systemIn a hospital, evacuation moves patients sideways into a protected compartment, not out onto the street. Your addressable fire alarm triggers the right doors, dampers, and smoke control in sequence, to NFPA 72 (2022) and EN 54, with the commissioning evidence the fire authority asks for.
Fire & life safety systemsStaff paging, background music, and a voice evacuation message can share the same speakers when planned that way. We integrate PA and voice alarm so a fire event overrides routine paging with a clear, intelligible instruction by zone, with boardroom, training, and telemedicine AV in the same scope.
AV solutionsFour failures that appear at commissioning or after handover. Each is preventable at design stage.
The fire alarm passes on its own, the smoke control passes on its own, and nobody runs them together until the authority does. On a hospital that means a failed inspection on cause-and-effect, and an opening date that slips while you re-test. We have been called to hospitals where the door holders released but the dampers never moved.
A failed authority inspection, and an opening date that slips while you re-test.
A written cause-and-effect matrix agreed early, then a full integrated test before the authority visit, not during it.
An isolation room loses negative pressure when a filter loads or a fan degrades, and a paper checklist on the door will not catch it for hours. In an airborne-infection room, that is a containment breach while clinicians treat the space as safe.
A containment breach in a room clinicians believe is safe.
Continuous pressure monitoring in the BMS, with an alarm to the right person, thresholds set to ASHRAE Standard 170 and tested at commissioning.
A nurse call button works at the bedside, but the call does not escalate when the first nurse is busy, so it waits. In a hospital, a delayed response to a fall or a cardiac event is the consequence that matters most. We have seen systems where calls queued at a panel with no path to a phone or pager.
A delayed response to a fall or cardiac event, the consequence that matters most.
Design the escalation rules and integration to staff devices first, then commission against real response-time targets you can audit.
Cutting over a network or running new containment through an occupied ward without a phasing plan takes clinical areas offline at the wrong time. The consequence is cancelled procedures and staff working around your contractor instead of treating patients.
Cancelled procedures, and staff working around a contractor instead of treating patients.
A phased plan agreed with your clinical and estates teams, cutovers scheduled into low-activity windows, a tested fallback, and infection control built in, not an afterthought.
In a hospital, the systems are only as good as the points where they meet. None of that happens by accident. It happens because the interfaces were drawn at design stage and tested before handover.
When one team designs and commissions all of it under a single contract, those interfaces are one team's responsibility. When each system is a separate contract, the gaps between them belong to no one until the day they fail.
Compliance is easier to judge when you can see it by system. Here is what each system we deliver is designed, tested and approved against.
Structured cabling and the data backbone that carries every clinical system, designed for resilience and growth.
Across all of them, you receive the evidence at handover: test certificates, the fire cause-and-effect matrix, pressure verification to ASHRAE Standard 170, and as-built drawings.
The questions hospital developers, estates teams, and consultants ask before they specify.
Tell us about your hospital project and a senior engineer reviews it with you, then sets out what your systems need and where the risks are.
Response within one business day. No cost, no obligation.
