Enhance the future
By the time you are reading this almost half of 2023 will have flashed by. It’s incredible how...
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Category: Industry eye
Rewards program
Recognising performance that goes above and beyond doesn’t always have to be expensive, writes Dr...
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Grave Impact
Climate change and extreme weather events hit hard in 2023. According to the annual report from...
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Smooth Finnish
The A.G. Coombs Group has committed to achieving net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 operational...
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Leading through hard times
“Honeybee leaders … don’t wait until a crisis hits, they plan ahead for difficult situations” It’s...
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A ’shroom of their own
On a remote farm in Far North Queensland, a family business overcame adversity to realise a “green dream” in the design of a 8,500m² mushroom production facility. Sean McGowan reports.The Inderbitzins are a proud family who have been on the land for three generations....
Q&A Ginger Scoggins
Ecolibrium gets to know the ASHRAE President, who is visiting Australia this month and will be appearing at ARBS. In addition to being ASHRAE President, what is your job title? I am President and founder of Engineered Designs, Inc, an engineering consulting firm in...
Q&A Sven Bolomey, M.AIRAH
Meet the Managing Director of Air & Odour Management (AOM) Australia, an Australian family-owned business specialising in the manufacturing and supply of commercial kitchen exhaust and filtration products. Specialty I have a master’s in environmental engineering,...
Hire education
Industry often bemoans the fact that fresh engineering graduates are not prepared for HVAC&R work. AIRAH’s members in the ACT are doing something about it. What does a typical university student learn about HVAC&R in a mechanical engineering degree? Not...
Techno-economic evaluation of integrating a PCM thermal battery into cooling systems
This paper presents a techno-economic evaluation of a phase change material (PCM) thermal battery (TB) system developed through an industry-university cooperation project.
Outstanding in his field
Sonia Holzheimer, M.AIRAH, remembers fondly the recently departed Graeme Standfield, F.AIRAH, whose designs for HVAC in the tropical north were innovative and influential.
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