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An environment chamber at Nottingham Trent University.
 7 Nov 2019

University benefits from new environmental chamber

The School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University wanted a facility that could study how the human body would react to different climates. To this end, it decided to invest in an environmental chamber that could simulate different ... 
Currently Britain only recycles 45 percent of its waste.
 7 Nov 2019

More effort needed to hit recycling targets in England

Britain could easily hit its 50 percent waste recycling target overnight if only people, companies and organisations up and down the country made more effort, claims BusinessWasteWeek.co.uk. The UK's waste management agency says it's time to start ... 
Percentage of trained/certified installers of a certain brand across Europe.
 6 Nov 2019

USP report shows lack of interest in brand attachment

USP Marketing Consultancy's Q1 2019 report of the ‘European Mechanical Installation Monitor’ focused on the variety of services installers offer to clients, as well as the services installers would like to receive from manufacturers.... 
Steven Smith, chef owner at Freemasons.
 5 Nov 2019

Freemasons at Wiswell has a Precision upgrade

Freemasons at Wiswell is regarded as one of the top pubs in the UK, and was included in the 2019 Michelin guide. Its ambition is to be one of the best in the world, serving refined food created in a world class kitchen. Freemasons decided to update ... 
Rosa Kissi-Debrah, founder of the Ella Roberta Foundation.
 31 Oct 2019

Asthma campaigner calls for building ‘safe havens’ campaign

The mother of a young girl who died from an asthma attack linked to air pollution is to demand action from the building engineering sector and politicians at an industry conference in November.... 
 25 Oct 2019

Lack of training could damage relationships with HVACR workforce

According to research from specialist recruitment consultancy, WR HVACR, just 39 percent of professionals working within the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) sector believe they have the opportunity to develop ... 
 25 Oct 2019

Co-Op launches first UK <150 GWP A2L convenience store

The Chemours Company has a live trial of Opteon XL20 (R454C) Refrigerant, a HFO blend with a safety classification of A2L, for its new convenience store at Langley Park, Derbyshire, UK.... 
 21 Oct 2019

Star helps Lineage meet demand for frozen foods

Star Refrigeration has completed the manufacture and installation of a new cold store facility for Lineage Logistics at the company’s new site in Great Haddon, near Peterborough. This project consists of 15,000 pallet spaces of frozen warehouse ... 
 17 Oct 2019

Kingspan highlights new commitments during Global Climate Change Week

This week marks the arrival of Global Climate Change Week, an event which aims to encourage the global academic community to engage with the public and key policy makers on climate change and potential solutions.... 
A 3.5kW wall mounted split room air conditioner from LG.
 14 Oct 2019

Air con for the garden office

Steve Martin, a public relations consultant working on his own and renting a serviced office decided that he wanted to work from home, so he built a purpose-designed small office in his garden.... 
Effective temperature control in film studios is critical due to heat loading from lights and other equipment.
 14 Oct 2019

UK film and TV boosts demand for HVAC hire support for studios

According to Carrier Rental Services, the new ‘Golden Age’ of British film and television is resulting in larger demand for specialist temporary cooling and heating for use in studios and on location.... 
Luigi Rossi Luciani, Carel's founder.
 10 Oct 2019

Thirty years of refrigeration: what’s next?

Carel released its first product for the refrigeration sector in 1990, after 17 years’ of business operating exclusively in the air conditioning market.... 
Central Middlesex Hospital in North London.
 10 Oct 2019

Ciat delivers chiller replacement at hospital on hottest day

Ciat UK completed a major turnkey project for Bouygues Energies & Services to replace chillers at Central Middlesex Hospital in North London, involving a chiller installation on the hottest day ever recorded in the UK.... 
The R499A spiral freezer system.
 10 Oct 2019

Star meets James T Blakeman & Co expansion expectations

Star Refrigeration and its group business, Starfrost, have successfully worked in collaboration to install a new Helix Spiral freezer at James T Blakeman’s Millennium Way production facility in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Star delivered a cost-effective, ... 
Triangulum: Digital Manchester.
 27 Sep 2019

€30 Million Triangulum project reaches conclusion

The award-winning Triangulum project is drawing to a close as the participating cities in the pioneering project begin to share the first results from the five-year long future smart cities programme.... 
The new CTL building at the University of Birmingham.
 27 Sep 2019

Trox air management best in class for Uni lab project

Trox Easylab air management systems, VAV units, and fume cupboard controllers have been chosen to optimise energy efficiency at the new BREEAM 'Excellent'-rated Collaborative Teaching Laboratory (CTL) at the University of Birmingham.... 
Gary Dicker, technical director at DHD Cooling.
 20 Sep 2019

Is your cooling tower working correctly?

Gary Dicker, technical director at DHD Cooling, explains the importance of thermal performance testing on evaporative cooling towers.... 
One Benjamin, a new mixed-use address in Farringdon, Central London.
 19 Sep 2019

New underfloor AC system for London development

One Benjamin is a new mixed-use address in Central London for which AET has provided a flexible underfloor air conditioning system to replace the original downflow design.... 
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