Nick Johns-Wickberg

AIRAH’s 2025 Refrigeration Conference was billed as the hottest conference for the coolest industry, and it didn’t disappoint. 

Babylyn Briones is AIRAH’s new Accreditation Officer and Registrar, having started with the Institute in April. Ecolibrium got to know Babylyn, whose work focuses primarily on the AIRAH Professional Engineer Register (APER).

Ecolibrium has undergone a redesign to make the magazine easier to read, more visually appealing, and better aligned with AIRAH’s brand.

The electrification of 3 Ravens brewery in Melbourne could serve as a blueprint for other craft operations, as Nick Johns-Wickberg discovers.

Nick Johns-Wickberg discovers how a heat monitoring tool developed by the University of Sydney is playing an important role in local sport.

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.

On my first morning in Yogyakarta a few weeks ago, I took the Indonesian equivalent of an Uber to what the guidebooks describe as a “water castle”. I like water and I love castles, so I didn’t need any convincing.

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

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.