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Many Australians live in substandard housing, but what can we actually do to improve thermal performance and reduce our energy bills?

What does “build tight and ventilate right” mean when applied to multi-residential buildings? Sean Maxwell, AM.AIRAH, investigates.

A research centre at Queensland University of Technology has set out an ambitious range of projects to build our knowledge of indoor air quality

Priya Gandhi, M.AIRAH, took the trip of a lifetime to Antarctica in 2023. Laura Timberlake speaks to her about the lessons she learned.

The Australian Refrigeration Council (ARC) has implemented a new automated licence renewal process designed to reduce the amount of time required to complete a licence renewal application.

Clearscope Legal’s Raphael Brown looks at some recent projects where HVAC&R has been in the compliance spotlight.

If you’ve been an avid reader of Ecolibrium over the past decade and a half, you’ll notice that, for the first time in 160-odd issues, there’s a new photo on this page. It’s with a mixture of excitement and nervousness that I take the reins from the inimitable Matt Dillon.

AIRAH’s IAQ 2024 conference underscored the once-in-a-century opportunity to improve indoor air quality – and what we need to do to seize it.

AIRAH has announced the finalists for the 2024 AIRAH Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements from across Australia’s HVAC&R building services industry.

The ACT has opened applications for mechanical engineers under its Professional Engineers Registration Scheme.

AIRAH Victorian division chair Rula Karali, M.AIRAH, shares her international HVAC&R journey.

On Thursday, June 27 the National Trust and James Harrison’s descendants held an event at Eastern Cemetery in Geelong to commemorate the restoration of Harrison’s grave.

Recognising the growing role of data and analytics in our buildings, AIRAH has published the Big Data Guideline, a free resource to support building owners, facility managers, consultants and service providers embarking on their big data journey. 

The adoption of ISO 16890 in Australia will support better filter selection and specification, according to Daniel McCaffrey, M.AIRAH, and Peter Mathieson, F.AIRAH, from AIRAH’s IAQ Special Technical Group.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, national leaders from a wide range of disciplines have sought to engage government on the need for improving indoor air quality.

Abraham Corona, M.AIRAH, has joined the AIRAH team in a newly created role: Industry Impact Manager.

At Canberra’s Australian War Memorial, a geothermal heating and cooling system goes beyond traditional methods to accommodate extreme temperatures.

AIRAH’s Advocacy and Policy Manager Mark Vender muses on the exceptional treatment of pre-charged equipment in Australia’s HFC phase-down.

As temperatures around the world soar, the question is not just how to stop global warming, but how humans can survive.

The Wings is set to be the first office building in Belgium to generate its own geothermal energy and consume no fossil fuel.