- December 2009
Army’s loss proved to be a lucky break for acr industry
01 December 2009
WHEN air conditioning engineer Simon Dawes of Total Environmental Network was crowned the 2009 UK Skillfridge champion in July, it was the culmination of six years' dedicated training in a job he just "fell into" after being denied an army career.
Alternative Refrigerants: AREA squares up to alternatives
01 December 2009
IN AN advisory paper to the European Commission, AREA has promoted the continuing use of HFCs, questioned the effectiveness of so-called "drop in" replacements for R22 and predicted a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of the F-gas regulations.
Refrigeration controls: Regain control, go wireless
01 December 2009
IN MOST buildings, power and communications still depend on a complex lattice of copper wires threaded throughout the structure. Each one of perhaps hundreds of thousands of individual cables has to be routed and attached at either end by a human hand. The cost in materials, time and potential error is vast.
Editorial: What's a name between firm friends?
01 December 2009
Have you noticed how people are becoming less likely to use their real name. Even in an age where people are increasingly likely to expose their most intimate details on websites like Facebook, there are others who are perfectly happy, even encouraged, to hide behind "user names" on web forums and the like.