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Cold Thoughts
by Neil Everitt The editor of ACR News posts his own cold thoughts about the ACR industry and anything else he cares to air. |
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Fresh Talk
by Steve Gill Steve Gill has worked in the ACR industry for over 30 years as a contractor and consultant. He is a Director of ACRIB and has served on several Institute of Refrigeration committees. He is the winner of the 2011 ACR News Consultant of the Year Award |
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Fox's Tales
by Graeme Fox Graeme Fox is an RAC contractor based in Dundee. He is a director at AREA (Air Conditioning & Refrigeration European Contractors' Association) and a member of the Institute of Refrigeration. |
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Gosling takes a gander
by Trevor Gosling A pioneer of air conditioning in the UK, Trevor Gosling is an ASHRAE life member, who in 1962 founded DES the distributor bought by Carrier in 1983. He has trained more than 1500 mature students. He designed the Rollason Air Handling Units and was chairman of the Liebert & Stulz distributors. |
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A View from the Gas Tank
by Barry Lyons Barry Lyons is business development manager for BOC. He is a refrigeration engineer with over four decades’ experience, a fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration, chairman of the ACRIB Technical Committee and a Board member of the BRA. |
The latest entries
A new dawn for the Institute?
I would like to congratulate Graeme Maidment on being voted in as president-elect of the Institute of Refrigeration. He certainly has the track-record, character and all the necessary credentials to be one of its best ever presidents - and he may need to call on all those attributes to do so.
The IOR: one institute, one vision
During the past few weeks I have spoken to more people about the Institute of Refrigeration than I recall ever doing during my time in the industry. The current election for the IoR President-Elect has sparked debate, which has been seen by some as so fierce that some commentators talk of a rift in the membership.
Refrigerator - What's in a word?
I was told recently by a very excited and surprised person that the term 'refrigerator' was first coined by a dairy farmer called Thomas Moore in 1803 and not by a famous engineer. It seems that the milk from his cows was churned into butter which he took to market and sold.
Cooling shapes the future
I am always reminded at this time of year just how significant the ACR industry is to our everyday lives. It is often said that as an industry our contribution to modern society is taken for granted.
Is our knowledge valued?
There is a saying that knowledge is power. We are often described as having specialist knowledge which we apply to the benefit of mankind. If we do have power, we do not gain from in financially to the extent of some other professions. When it comes to the ACR industry it sometimes, perhaps always, seems as though we constantly have to justify the price that we put to our knowledge.
