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 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.... 
 11 Sep 2019

J&E Hall condensing units installed in dry-ageing room

J&E Hall Commercial Condensing Units are helping to ensure that meat is processed to the highest standards in a newly-built dry-ageing room on the Isle of Wight. This investment in new cooling equipment is part of a larger project to streamline ... 
 10 Sep 2019

All change at Farringdon East for Trox FCUs

Trox UK has been selected by MACE MEP Services to provide PWX fan-coils and grilles for the new office development at Farringdon East Crossrail Station over-site development in central London.... 
The new upgrade was installed at the company's cake bakery in Halifax, where household favourites such as McVitie's Jamaica Ginger cake are baked.
 4 Sep 2019

Starfrost designs new cooling system for Pladis

Starfrost has implemented a new, custom-built, spiral cooling system for Pladis, the global snacking company behind McVitie’s.... 
The Donna Louise Children’s Hospice in Staffordshire.
 4 Sep 2019

TF and Fujitsu team up to support The Donna Louise Hospice

TF Solutions has partnered with Fujitsu General Air Conditioning UK, along with Pump House and Conex Bänninger's >B< MaxiPro, to supply and install a heat recovery VRF air conditioning system at The Donna Louise Children’s Hospice in Staffordshire.... 
Matthew Bilvestone, Coldstore refrigeration engineer at Greenyard Frozen,King’s Lynn site.
 27 Aug 2019

Greenyard Frozen improves ammonia safety compliance

With 20 tons of hazardous ammonia on site and a packing capacity of 500 tons of quality frozen food per day, refrigerant leaks posed a costly problem not just in case of slowing production but also for safety compliance. Greenyard Frozen needed a ... 
No.1 Great Central Square is part of a £50 million regeneration scheme in the heart of Leicester city.
 27 Aug 2019

VRF chosen for Leicester City re-gen scheme

Toshiba’s Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) air conditioning has been chosen to provide high-efficiency cooling and heating for No.1 Great Central Square, part of a £50million regeneration scheme in the heart of Leicester.... 
Gubba Cold Storage
 27 Aug 2019

Thermal imaging detects insulation defects

Gubba Cold Storage offers its customers cold storage facilities for a wide range of products, from plant seeds to pharmaceuticals. Every product has its own prescribed storage requirements so it is essential that Gubba’s 11 cold storage units ... 
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