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ACR News is delighted to announce that top comedian and television personality Ed Byrne will be hosting the 2017 ACR News Awards. Mr Byrne is one of the UK’s top live acts, and one of the hardest working. As well as sell-out runs in Edinburgh and ...

According to the latest quarterly CBI Industrial Trends Survey, UK manufacturers are more optimistic about their business situation and exporting prospects, while reporting strong growth in domestic orders compared with the previous quarter.

Airflow Developments, the ventilation solutions manufacturer has opened a new Air Academy at its head office in High Wycombe.

Director of engineering at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Dr Colin Brown, has responded to the Government’s launch of an industrial strategy.

With university fees on the increase, young people are weighing up the costs and benefits more than ever and more middle-class teenagers are opting for the apprenticeship route as an equally valid option.

Gas Sensing Solutions (GSS), the designer and manufacturer of low power, high speed Non-Dispersive Infrared (NDIR) carbon dioxide gas sensors, has appointed Grant Notman as its new business development director.

Three leading construction industry bodies have acted to address increasing confusion over the process of standardising product information for use in Building Information Modelling (BIM).

BSRIA has hailed the release of a new Ladybird book on the challenges and possible solutions to climate change, which will be published on 26th January.

Fan and motor manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg has seen its sales grow for 2016 to €482m, compared with €447m a year earlier.

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Cavendish Engineers partners HoneywellCavendish Engineers has signed a deal with Honeywell to become official CentraLine partner across its range of building management services.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is proposing to cut the training levy it charges firms next year in a bid to prevent its closure.

BSRIA has issued a response to Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech on Brexit yesterday (17th January).

An Introduction to Commissioning Management course has been introduced by the CSA to give a real life insight and guidance to the entire commissioning management process.

Foster Refrigerator has relaunched its customer-facing website to provide dealers with a portal of information to assist and inform its customers.

James Ham has taken over as managing director of CAREL Korea, the CAREL subsidiary operating in South Korea since 2010.

J S Wright, the building services provider, has appointed three new mechanical project managers.

BESA (the Building Engineering Services Association), which developed the industry’s primary standard for ventilation hygiene (TR19) almost 20 years ago, has unveiled a suite of training courses to support the standard.

Airedale has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Patrick Cotton as customer services manager.

Tesco saw a 0.7% increase in UK like-for-like sales over the Christmas period (for the six weeks ending 7th January), with food like-for-like sales up by 1.3%.

According to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) construction output declined 0.2% in November 2016.

Sainsbury’s has seen a 0.1% rise in like-for-like retail sales for the 15 weeks to 7 January this year.

Big Foot Systems, part of the Aspen Pumps Group, has announced the internal promotion of Nathan Wood to the position of site engineer.

Morrisons has reported better than expected Christmas trading results with like-for-like sales up by 2% in the nine weeks to 1st January.

Pastorfrigor GB Limited has appointed Kevin Sizer (M.Inst.R) as its new sales director.

According to the Construction Products Association’s (CPA) latest State of Trade Survey, sales in the UK construction products manufacturing market grew for a consecutive fifteenth quarter in Q4 of 2016.

Graham Young, area general manager of Johnson Controls Building Efficiency UK Ltd, officially retired on 31st December 2016.

As of Tuesday 3rd January 2017 Clive Parkman took on the role of managing director of Daikin Applied (UK) Ltd and with it the overall responsibility for the day to day running of the business.Mr Parkman has significant experience of the UK Chiller ...

Scientists from the University of Birmingham have launched a major research project to investigate how ‘clean cold’ could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations’ (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals.

Two apprentices from Ziehl-Abegg, the German fan and motor manufacturer, are sponsoring two children in Swaziland to pay for their food, healthcare and education.

Mitsubishi Electric has linked up with a leading work-based learning company, JTL, to train 50 air conditioning apprentices for its partners in a national scheme to encourage more apprenticeships in the building services industry.

Natasha Eley, service manager at Stonegrove Refrigeration, has been named the winner of Climalife’s F-Gas Challenge Quiz.

In the first of a series of free ACR News webinars, the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Industry Board (ACRIB) and the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) will be looking at the ACRIB SKILLcard - what it is, and why it's important in ...

Ant Wilson, director – Sustainability & Advanced Design – Building Engineering at AECOM and a long-standing BSRIA council member, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours’ List.