Oceania
Adelaide aims to be world's first carbon neutral city
30 September 2015 Adelaide is on its way to becoming the world’s first carbon neutral city. Professional services firm pitt&sherry has been engaged by the South Australian Government and Adelaide City Council to work on the development of a strategy to make Adelaide a carbon neutral city. Dubbed the Carbon Neutral Adelaide initiative it is part of the state government’s climate change strate...
High performance district cooling at Barangaroo
29 September 2015 Spruiking the benefits of district energy schemes, Veolia Group energy solutions director, Ross Seabrook said Barangaroo is one of 400 heating and cooling networks managed by the company worldwide. With a capacity of 72 megawatts, Seabrook said Barangaroo is the biggest energy, cooling and water treatment schemes in Australia. He said the Veolia Group first became i...
Additional exhibition space for ARBS 2016
23 September 2015 A limited amount of new exhibition floor space has been made available for ARBS 2016 which will be held from May 17-19, 2016 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC). ARBS is Australia’s only international air conditioning, refrigeration and building services trade exhibition and due to unprecedented demand for exhibition space, the event was almost fully...
Commission mission accomplished
By sandra van dijk | 22 September 2015 The Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH) held its very first Commissioning Workshop last week which was attended by 70 par...
Advanced, inverter-driven Daiseikai
18 September 2015 Toshiba Air Conditioning has introduced a new generation of its premium inverter Daiseikai air conditioning systems. The advanced inverter-driven Toshiba Daiseikai air conditi...
Engie acquires Australasian contractors
Sep 17, 2015 AUSTRALIA: Engie, parent company of French contractor Cofely Axima, has acquired the Australian TSC Group, which includes hvacr contractors Trilogy Building Services and Cowley Services. ? The Group, through its subsidiary Cofely, previously held a 20% stake in TSC. ? Following on from last week’s announcement of the purchase of fellow French contractor Nexilis, this latest deal expan...
New range of wall mounted, cassette and ducted products
14 September 2015 A leading supplier of air conditioning solutions, Fujitsu General has released a new range of wall mounted, cassette and ducted products leading into summer. Whether it’s a la...
Good fit for indoors or outdoors
9 September 2015 The new Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 1.7kW model, the SKR17ZMP-S is the lowest capacity unit available in the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ domestic air-conditioners range. It is...
Adelaide joins race to become world's first carbon neutral c
10 September 2015 The South Australian government is launching a new strategy to decarbonise its economy and has set a goal for Adelaide to become the first carbon neutral city in the world. A ...
Refrigeraton specialist warns of defective installations
09 Sep 2015 Two out of three commercial refrigeration installations are seriously defective, according to Dr Michael Bellstedt, managing director of Minus40 Pty Ltd. When it comes to commercial refri...
Packaged units customised to fit
September 8, 2015 Dunnair’s ability to custom build provides the HVAC industry with a practical and cost-effective solution for replacement of discontinued equipment currently installed in existing bu...
Regional hub for RAC training
04 Sep 2015 TAFE initiative Bendigo TAFE is embarking on an ambitious five year project to create a regional training hub for refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC). Although this TAFE only began R...
