Industry

Humiscope Director John Morgan and Mechanical Engineer Ladan Bagherzadeh look at the challenges of designing and delivering an ultra-low dew point environment for lithium‑sulphur battery manufacturing.

Despite the challenges facing Australian manufacturing, HVAC&R businesses are increasingly looking to build their capacity locally.

With Standards Australia recently adopting a mould remediation standard, we look at how this hidden killer can harm both building occupants and HVAC&R technicians.

In 2025, AIRAH expanded its awards program to six states and territories, recognising outstanding apprentices and long-term contributions among HVAC&R professionals across Australia.

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Powering Skills Organisation (PSO) has published the results of a survey identifying gaps in training for HVAC&R technicians.

With over 185,000m² of internal floor space, Brisbane’s Queens Wharf resort complex is one of the largest developments of its kind in Australia.

Commonwealth, state and territory building ministers have agreed on the timing of future updates to the National Construction Code – including NCC 2025.

Professional registration schemes have been rolling out across the country, but the regime in New South Wales remains something of an outlier. AIRAH and other industry bodies are now pushing for alignment with other jurisdictions.

A new Australian Standard for building commissioning, AS 5342, is open for public comment.

The first iteration of the annual event will take place at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney on Friday, October 24.

The AIRAH Professional Engineer Register (APER) has expanded to Western Australia and been renewed in Queensland.

As a proud member of Standards Australia, AIRAH has representatives on almost 20 different committees responsible for key standards in the HVAC&R industry.

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.

William Lane, F.AIRAH, makes the case for how formal accreditation could improve commissioning practices across Australia’s HVAC and building services sectors. 

HVAC&R professionals Sonia Holzheimer, M.AIRAH, Taylor Burdett, and Claudia Yuan, Stud.AIRAH, share their experiences of the industry, the barriers to entry, and where they see the future for women in HVAC&R.

The Victorian government has announced that it will subsidise residential ceiling insulation through the Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU) program from 2026.

The Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC) has released a policy roadmap to reduce upfront embodied carbon in the built environment.

Amy Lewis from the Safer Air Project introduces a toolkit for making events safe, accessible, and inclusive for those at risk from poor IAQ.

Donald Trump started his second presidency by ordering the US government to wind back or abolish diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, and some major companies followed suit.