Oceania
2015 HVACR Leader of the Year Finalists
12 October 2015 All of the finalists for CCN’s main award are industry veterans that have dedicated their careers to HVACR. Scantec Refrigeration managing director, Stefan Jensen, is a strong advocat...
Beijer Ref cleared to acquire Realcold
7 Oct, 2015 NEW ZEALAND: Beijer Ref’s subsidiary B100 Ltd has been given clearance to acquire the business and assets of New Zealand refrigeration wholesaler Realcold. The deal, first announced...
Award for high level of customer support
6 Oct, 2015 All products supplied by ebm-papst A/NZ are locally engineered regardless of whether they are made here or abroad. This allows the company to optimise the solutions it delivers to the Aust...
Ozone review options paper released
6 Oct, 2015 Australia’s HVACR industry has until November 16, 2015 to respond to Option Papers released by the Federal Government as part of its review of the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse...
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...
