The voice of Australian HVAC&R

  • Terms of engagement

    Meet AIRAH’s new Engagement Officer, Finley Reid.

  • Meet this cool new (meta)film star

    Ecolibrium speaks to Yangzhe Hou, part of a research team that recently developed a bioplastic metafilm with fascinating cooling properties.

  • Success by degrees

    In Australia, we lament the lack of engineering degrees that incorporate HVAC&R and building services. Dr Badr Abdullah, Programme Leader of Building Services and Architectural Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, tells us how they developed a successful, specialised building services engineering degree.

  • Copper cable close-up (credit Calitore)

    Down to the wire

    With a global shortage of copper looming, could aluminium cable be a safe and cost-effective substitute for low voltage underground power supply? Lasath Lecamwasam and Martin Lynch investigate.

  • Mould

    Breaking the mould 

    When Dr Mali Rezaei moved into a one-bedroom rental in Melbourne’s southeast in 2021, she had no idea how severely her life would be affected by mould.

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