Industry faces up to post-Brexit compliance challenges
A significant number of regulatory compliance challenges linked to the trade of specialist goods such as cooling equipment and other related components will need to be addressed as a result of the UK government’s intention to leave the European Customs Union.
Industrial Refrigeration and Low-GWP refrigerants: Still work to do
Our industrial refrigeration round table sponsored by Chemours brought the industrial supply chain debate together to debate low-GWP options, refrigerant availability and the sector’s ‘special challenges’. Ian Vallely reports
F-Gas Question Time: Understanding the urgency
Experts at our annual supply chain debate were of a consensus that end users have to plan now to exit higher-GWP gases, reports Ian Vallely
Report lays bare need for significant improvements to air quality
Report from major doctors’ groups finds ’significant public health burden’ of pollution and makes recommendations for policy change, including improving Indoor Air Quality
Beware the BMS banditsSubscription
CIBSE’s Building Performance Conference and Exhibition was dominated by talks on BMS security and the influence of occupant behaviour on building performance
A roadmap for coldSubscription
The latest strategic document from Birmingham University’s Policy Commission is a roadmap setting out what it believes needs to happen to technology between now and 2030. Andrew Gaved takes a look
A natural advance for the USSubscription
The newly formed North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council aims to break down the barriers to natural refrigerant selection
Time for changeSubscription
BSRIA’s Future Building Trends – Impacts – Solutions white paper gives an in-depth insight into where the HVAC industry is heading
Visible benefitsSubscription
Johnson Controls has worked with IT giant Cisco to provide closer integration between the BMS and the IT systems. The approach has paid dividends in making the data more accessible, as RAC reports
Share in the communitySubscription
A district heating scheme in Finland is using waste energy from a computing centre, via heat pump technology, to heat 1,500 homes
Cool under pressureSubscription
Such was the performance of the cooling technology employed at an expanded flagship data centre, there was no need to retain chiller technology onsite
