Category: Features

The time is now

Posted by Laura Timberlake | Nov 7, 2024 | Features

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.

Shine bright

Posted by Laura Timberlake | Oct 16, 2024 | Features

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

Purpose and place

Posted by Laura Timberlake | Oct 14, 2024 | Features

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

A change in the air

Posted by Chloe Sofia Gawaran | Oct 7, 2024 | Features

The adoption of ISO 16890 in Australia will support better filter selection and specification,...

Honour and duty

Posted by Laura Timberlake | Sep 30, 2024 | Features

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

When Ashak Nathwani arrived in Australia from Uganda in 1972 with 20 cents to his name, little did he imagine how much he would achieve in his life. Laura Timberlake reviews his recently released book and explores his astonishing career. As Australia struggles to meet...

Hidden hero: the importance of BMS

Mar 5, 2025

Building management systems are vital for HVAC performance and efficiency, but if they’re poorly designed or maintained, they can cause serious problems. Chris Stamatis, M.AIRAH, and Trevor Smith, Affil.AIRAH, showed Nick Johns-Wickberg and Mark Vender how these...

Rising above the crowd

Mar 5, 2025

Sonia Holzheimer, M.AIRAH, shares her reflections from the 21st Women in HVACR Conference in Dallas. Dallas welcomed nearly 600 HVAC&R professionals to celebrate the theme “Lone Star leadership” at the 21st annual Women in HVACR conference. I arrived ready to...

The road to certification

Mar 4, 2025

Dan Hadley examines what’s required to meet the International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 14001:2015 – environmental management systems in construction, using Watson Fitzgerald & Associates as a case study. Sustainability has long surpassed simply being...

Home improvement

Dec 18, 2024

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

Australian ventilation: the next chapter