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Author: Louise Belfield
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Australia’s top talent battles for WorldSkills gold
WorldSkills Australia is holding its 2023 national championships from August 17–19 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Held every two years, the competition sees the top skills talent from all over the country compete over four days. Across more than 60 skills – including refrigeration and air conditioning – participants will battle it out […]
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Climate control, termite style
Lund University researchers in Sweden have found that future buildings inspired by termites could achieve the same effect as traditional climate control but with greater energy efficiency and fewer emissions. According to the researchers, termite mounds have a sophisticated ventilation system that allows air to circulate throughout the structure. This helps maintain and regulate temperature […]
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NEXTgen program opens for 2023–2024
Standards Australia has opened its doors for the next intake of industry professionals wanting to benefit from its NEXTgen program. The NEXTgen Program selects emerging industry and technical experts and provides them with an opportunity to become involved in standardisation processes. It is open to people with five to seven years’ industry experience wanting to […]
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Have your say on VET education in Queensland
The Queensland Parliament’s Education, Employment and Training Committee will be holding three community forums and a public hearing briefing about the delivery of vocational education and training (VET) for regional, rural and remote Queensland in July 2023. The committee is keen to hear directly from workers, employers, and their representatives as part of its inquiry. […]
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ATO advises employers to check super obligations
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is encouraging employers in the construction industry to check they are up to date with their super obligations by the next quarterly due date to avoid additional costs and penalties. When employers don’t meet their super guarantee obligations, by paying late, not paying in full or paying to the wrong […]
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Danfoss opens ‘future supermarket’ in Denmark
Danfoss has announced the opening of a new flagship supermarket that it expects to be about 50 per cent more energy efficient compared to a typical supermarket, with a first-generation CO2 refrigeration system. The new “Smart Store” in Nordborg, Denmark, will work as a functioning supermarket and a development test centre for energy efficiency technology. […]
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Daikin launches new VRV heat pump
Daikin Australia has launched the latest addition to its flagship VRV range, the VRV H Series (RXYQ-BYM). The company’s inaugural variable refrigerant volume (VRV) air conditioning system was launched in 1982, and according to Daikin was the world’s first use of VRV control. The system circulates only the minimum amount of refrigerant needed during a […]
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CSR highlights healing power of architecture
CSR has developed a range of materials to help meet a growing body of research that emphasises the importance of good design in healthcare, the company says. According to CSR, patient outcomes are significantly influenced by the physical setting and environmental quality of a healthcare facility. And healing architecture is a holistic approach that takes […]
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Lifesize Plans offers ‘true’ 1:1 scale walkthroughs
Lifesize Plans is aiming to add value to the property development and commercial infrastructure sector with walkthroughs that allow for design refinement and improved project management. According to Lifesize Plans, its patented real-scale walk-through technology is the world’s first and has changed the way people design, construct, and renovate. Aimed at multiple industry sectors including […]
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NZ dates confirmed for 2023 future:gas roadshow
The future:gas organisers have confirmed venues and dates for the New Zealand leg of the 2023 refrigerant seminar roadshow. With the seminar series already under way and travelling across Australia, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu until September, the dates for Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin have been confirmed as July 25, 26, and 27. The series has been organised to […]
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Inaugural Women in Cooling competition winner named
Léana Khaled Payan, a refrigeration engineer with Axima Refrigeration in France, has been named as the winner of the first European Women in Cooling Video Competition. The competition, organised by European contractors group AREA and World Refrigeration Day, was designed to highlight women exhibiting best practice and innovative thinking in their work. The organisers asked that entrants […]
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Mitsubishi Electric teams up with the Dolphins
Mitsubishi Electric Australia has joined the Dolphins NRL club as official air conditioning and refrigeration partners. Executive Director and General Manager Zane Barron says the team is delighted with the partnership. The addition of the Dolphins as the second Brisbane franchise in the NRL and the club’s location within Brisbane’s northern expansion corridor has made […]
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Get set for the coolest day of the year
World Refrigeration Day, dubbed the coolest day of the year, will be marked on June 26 this year with a range of celebrations aimed at raising the profile of HVAC&R. First started in 2019, WRD honours the important contribution that HVAC&R makes globally across all aspects of modern life. It’s an opportunity to highlight the […]
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New Sensibo Airbend software for cleaner air
Sensibo has launched new software it says will allow accommodation facilities to manage air conditioning and air quality monitoring devices in bulk, reduce heating and cooling costs, and ensure healthy air quality for guests. According to the company, the new Sensibo Airbend software can lead to savings of more than 40 per cent on energy […]
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MB Frigo selects Carel µRack solution
MB Frigo, an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in servicing air conditioning and refrigeration units based in Zagreb, has chosen Carel as its partner for equipping a refrigeration system in its new convenience store. Carel says its new µRack control system features fast commissioning, simplified interaction, advanced connectivity, and energy saving functions. “[µRack] offers an […]
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Elastocaloric cooling a system for the future
University of Maryland researchers in the US have developed a high-performance elastocaloric cooling system they say could herald the next generation of cooling devices. Eight years in the making, the prototype system relies on pushing and pulling pieces of metal to create cooling, rather than using a refrigerant circuit containing a working fluid. Caloric materials […]
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New clamp enables easy attachment to metal roofs
Roof attachment specialist S-5! has introduced a new clamp for attaching a wide range of rooftop accessories to the Riverclack metal roof profile. According to the company, the two-piece design of the S-5-RC aligns with the rib geometry of the roof profile and creates a mechanical interlock strong enough to mount most rooftop applications with certified holding strength, […]
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New temperature sensing tech for metal tanks
Dwyer Instruments has announced a new product in Omega’s HANI (high accuracy, non-invasive) temperature sensing range: the HANI temperature sensors for metal tank applications. According to Dwyer, the new design makes sensor installation easy by enabling it to be mounted to the outside of a metal tank where it can read the temperature of the […]
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future:gas roadshow gathers momentum
The 2023 future:gas refrigerant seminar series is now under way and travelling across Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu until September. The series has been organised to deliver vital information to industry stakeholders preparing for systems and equipment designed for new refrigerants such as HFOs, CO2, ammonia, hydrocarbons, lower global warming potential (GWP) […]
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Professor Morawska wins Women in Science award
The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has announced that world-leading air quality expert and Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska has received the prestigious 2023 L’Oréal–UNESCO for Women in Science Award for Asia and the Pacific. An Australian Laureate Fellow, Australian Academy of Science Fellow, and Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Prof. Morawska is one […]