Mark Vender

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.

The human factor

AIRAH has prepared a document outlining the Institute’s policy priorities for the freshly re-elected federal government.

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 complex systems work in practice.

We know that looking after our buildings make sense, but in a world where new technology and innovation grab the headlines, how do we make it a priority?

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

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.

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

Much has been made of the poor ventilation in Australian classrooms, but the situation is even more dire for thousands of mining, construction and agriculture workers. Mark Vender investigates.