Industry organisations representing specialist engineering contractors have pledged their support for the government’s newly-published Construction Strategy.The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group – representing the largest industry ...

Over 70 customers and suppliers attended the opening of Smith Brothers Stores newest branch in Leicester on 4 March. The new branch, based in Freeman’s Common Industrial Estate, has been relocated from the company's founding headquarters based in ...

Following a successful and comprehensive tender process, WorldSkills UK has confirmed that a Refrigeration Air Conditioning competition will be included in the WorldSkills UK Competitions portfolio in 2016.

BSRIA has published a white paper entitled ‘Retrofit & Refurbishment & the Growth of Connected HVAC Technology’.

Pentland Wholesale Limited, a leading importer and supplier of commercial refrigeration and catering equipment, has announced that it is offering free standard delivery to its customers based in Ireland.  

In February Hoshizaki Gram hosted the first of its 2016 Go Green Debate webinars, at the Hotelympia trade show.

BSRIA says that it is encouraged by the news that construction apprenticeships are up to pre-recession levels, according to figures from the CITB (Construction Industry Training Board), released last week, to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week (NAW 2016).

At the CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) Annual Lecture on 16 March, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Fiona Cousins, PE, CIBSE, ARUP and LEED Fellow, set out a vision for engineers taking the lead in the fight against climate change by working with policy makers and the public to champion sustainability.

Chris Prentice has joined JS Air Curtains as area sales manager for the Midlands and North of England.

BSRIA chief executive, Julia Evans, has responded to Chancellor George Osborne’s 2016 Budget, which was delivered yesterday (16 March).

A competition to find the oldest working YORK chiller in the UK and Ireland has been won by a Born Warner YORK machine that has been operating round-the-clock for more than 32 years.

Professor Brian Cox OBE is supporting a call from the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) president, Naomi Climer, to help attract more young people into engineering careers.

According to Ocado’s newly released trading statement for the 12 weeks to 21 February this year, gross retail sales grew by 13.8% to £286.7m.

Sainsbury’s has released its fourth quarter trading statement for the nine weeks to 12 March, showing a 1.2% increase in total retail sales.

Toshiba’s SMMS-e VRF system has won its second top industry award this year, being crowned Air Conditioning Product of the Year at the recent ACR News Awards 2016.

The North West region of the Building Engineering Services Association (the BESA) recently presented this year's North West Training Awards during its annual ball held at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool.

This week marks National Apprenticeship Week but according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of construction apprentices in the country is in decline, despite there being a national need for more construction workers.

According to the latest ONS figures published on 11 March, in January construction output was down by 0.2% and by 0.8% compared with a year earlier.

ASHRAE UK Midlands Sector president Steve Gill says he is delighted by the interest generated through its stand at the ACR Show in February.

The US commercial refrigeration systems market, which was valued at $5.73bn in 2015, is projected to expand at a healthy CAGR of 3.2% to reach $5.92bn by the end of 2016, according to a new report by Future Market Insights (FMI).

Airedale International has released a video looking at the reconstruction of its Rawdon facility following a fire in September 2013.

J S Wright, the building services provider, has increased its workforce by 50% over the past decade and has now welcomed the 40th new recruit to its Apprentice Academy.

The Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) and the Building Engineering Services Association (the BESA) have issued a joint statement ahead of next week’s Budget on a number of the key topics affecting members of both organisations.

Morrisons has reported a decline in profits in its preliminary results for the year ending 31 January 2016.

The Building Engineering Services Association (the BESA) has launched a major initiative on occupational health, in collaboration with the Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) and Constructing Better Health.

According to the latest state of trade survey by the Building Engineering Services Association (the BESA), building engineering services contractors saw turnover increase in the six months from July to December 2015.

Today (8 March) the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched its 2016 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards (YWE) and is urging successful young female engineers to enter.

BESA (the Building Engineering Services Association) has appointed Iain McCaskey as head of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

CAREL UK has appointed Nigel Hiller as its new managing director.

DCI Refrigeration & Electrical Limited is celebrating 25 years in business.

Gareth Vaughan, past president of the Building Engineering Services Association (the BESA), has died at the age of 62.

AirSource, the rapidly expanding ventilation specialist has appointed two new apprentices.

A-Gas has launched a new UK website making it easier for engineers to access refrigerant data.

From 1 March Find a Future has been renamed WorldSkills UK.

Exhibitors at last week’s ACR Show at the NEC in Birmingham reported multiple leads and orders and there was a notable increase in the quality of visitors.

ADCAS (the Association of Ductwork Control Contractors and Allied Services) is urging facilities and building managers to focus on ductwork as central to the importance of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ).

The Chemours Company has announced that its Opteon XL55 refrigerant has passed a major milestone towards commercialisation by completing the flammability and toxicology review required by ANSI/ASHRAE.

FG Eurofred will start to trade under its new name, Fujitsu General Air Conditioning (UK) Limited, with effect from 7 March.

According to the latest CBI Growth Indicator, there was a small improvement in UK private sector economic growth in the three months to February.

Mitsubishi Electric has produced a free, CPD-accredited guide to the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) which take effect from April 2018.

David Richards, regional sales manager at Climalife IDS Refrigeration Ltd, will be promoted to a new role, UK head of sales, with effect from 1 April 2016.