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  • Eco2306 Advocacy

    Invisible but indispensable

    Raising the profile of the HVAC&R building services industry is a goal that runs across all AIRAH’s activities.

  • Eco2306 Iaq Event

    A healthy horizon

    A recent event in Melbourne explored how the themes of sustainability and indoor air quality are intrinsically linked.

  • Eco2305 Advocacy Column

    The right to clean air

    The recent Clean Air Forum in Canberra brought together stakeholders across various disciplines to discuss the next steps to improving indoor air quality. AIRAH attended as a peak engineering body.

  • Eco2305 Presidents Letter

    Enhance the future

    By the time you are reading this almost half of 2023 will have flashed by. It’s incredible how time speeds up as you get older. How is the year progressing for you?

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    Simon says

    For Simon Witts, M.AIRAH, it’s the complex projects and designs that keep him going. We chat with the national division director, engineering for VA Sciences, based in Melbourne.

  • 05 22 Eco Forum

    Developing a framework for delivering quality towards a sustainable built form future

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    The life aquatic

    Students and academics from the University of Melbourne joined forces with industry consultants and local government representatives to explore achieving net zero carbon design for those most energy-intensive buildings: aquatic centres. The university’s Brendon McNiven, Dominik Holzer and Lu Aye, F.AIRAH, elaborate.

  • Condair New Md

    Condair appoints new MD

    Condair has appointed Virender Rana as its new managing director. Rana will succeed Ian Eitzen, Affil.AIRAH, who is taking on a new position in the company as senior technical adviser.

  • Group Of Office People Walking At Office Open Space. Team Of Business Employees At Coworking Center. People At Motion Blur. Concept Working At Action

    Monitoring key to better IAQ

    Reliable Controls has added its considerable support to the push for better indoor air quality (IAQ), in particular through monitoring. “Integrating IAQ sensing technology into your building allows you to collect building data that helps you optimise building performance and avoid system failures,” says the company.

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    Rewards program

    Recognising performance that goes above and beyond doesn’t always have to be expensive, writes Dr Gayle Avery. But it does have to be executed properly and appropriately.

  • Seek Cover

    The searchers

    An impending lease expiry, predicted growth in headcount and a desire to improve the workplace experience of its staff led SEEK to look beyond its existing office space and set out on a path towards its own, custom-designed environment. Sean McGowan reports on that seven-year quest, which led to a high-performing, comfortable and naturally lit space.

  • Automated Logic

    A logical expansion

    Building management solutions provider Automated Logic has acquired Logical Electrical Solutions and Logical Service Solutions (collectively “Logical Electrical and Service Solutions”), the independent Automated Logic controls contractor operating in the Australian Capital Territory. Automated Logic is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, a global provider of building and cold chain solutions.

  • Ziehl Abegg

    Good figurz for Ziehl-Abegg

    German ventilation, control and drive technology company Ziehl-Abegg has posted record sales and growth in employee numbers.

  • Alfa Laval

    Full system potential?

    Alfa Laval has launched what it says is the first heat exchanger developed specifically for fuel cell systems – the AlfaNova GL50.

  • Arctic Ice Melt

    Grave impact

    According to the annual report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), climate change continued to advance at a tremendous and impactful clip in 2022. 

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    Smooth Finnish

    The A.G. Coombs Group has committed to achieving net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 operational emissions by 2030. The building services specialist will work with its value chain, industry partners and customers to achieve net zero Scope 3 emissions by 2040.

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    Mentor as anything

    How to ensure that budding HVAC&R building services professionals get the support they need? AIRAH firmly believes mentorship is the way forward.

  • Ecolibrium Treeoflife 01

    Tree of life

    Given a blank page, an engaged client, a set of unique site constraints and permission to invent new ways of bringing a building to operational life, Cundall’s building services and sustainability engineers have created an award-winning design for a net zero commercial tower in Hong Kong.

  • Holyoake

    Holyoake’s healthcare solution

    Holyoake by Price has announced it will be opening a new factory in Sydney 2023 with the goal of delivering innovative, world-class products specifically for the Australian market.

  • Hevac Product

    Carpark control from HEVAC 

    HEVAC, an Australian company specialising in control systems for the commercial air conditioning industry, has a new offering in its range of carpark CO control systems.