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BESA’s director of training and skills Helen Yeulet

New training model emerges from COVID crisis

The COVID-19 crisis magnified the existing skills gap in building services, but also created opportunities and accelerated potential solutions including widespread adoption of online learning models...

12 Aug 2020

Check your site from home

Steve Munn, managing director for Hevasure, discusses the benefits of remote monitoring and its significance for a post-COVID-19 world...

5 Aug 2020

Break the sludge before it breaks the boiler

Richard Harvey, category director for heating and plumbing at Wolseley investigates the options available to combat system spoiling sludge....

5 Aug 2020

Alternatives in climate control

Andrews Sykes’ UK HVAC sales director, Paul La Roche, discusses the advantages of fan coils and air handling units (AHUs) and what you should expect from a typical configuration....

29 Jul 2020

President and chief executive of Messe Frankfurt Wolfgang Marzin

"ISH is an economic driving force"

Wolfgang Marzin, president and chief executive of Messe Frankfurt, explains in a Q&A how important it is to hold the sanitary and HVAC event ISH in March 2021....

27 Jul 2020

John Bradley, managing director, Homevent (Elta Fans Residential Division)

IAQ & homeworking

The COVID-19 lockdown has meant that many in the UK are working from home for the first time. With some experts predicting this is likely to be a trend that continues into the future, what does this mean for those tasked with delivering ventilation ...

22 Jul 2020

CHP cost savings

Investing in on-site Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation could help businesses reduce costs and energy consumption in a challenging post-pandemic environment, says Hugh Richmond, chief executive of distributed power generation solutions ...

22 Jul 2020

Mark Gibbons, national sales manager for CHP at Baxi Heating

Widening the spark gap

In sites with high constant demand for heat and power, a well-designed CHP system holds the key to significant financial savings and safer maintenance. That's according to Mark Gibbons, national sales manager for CHP at Baxi Heating...

15 Jul 2020

LEV guidance targets workplace health

Thousands of new cases of serious ill health due to exposure to hazardous substances and fumes in the workplace have focused minds on the need for new best practice guidance for local exhaust ventilation (LEV)...

15 Jul 2020

I’ve got algorithm

Martin Wyatt, business development manager, of Carlo Gavazzi, explains how the company’s High Dynamic Motor Starter (HDMS) uses an innovative algorithm to eliminate the need for a start capacitor in single phase motors...

8 Jul 2020

Humidity control: virus protection, IAQ and care homes

John Barker, managing director of Humidity Solutions, examines the research on the role humidity control can play, and looks at some of the solutions for care homes, hospitals and places of work...

8 Jul 2020

Construction and COVID-19

The construction industry has had a particularly difficult few years. So, the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, is another in a long line of challenges which the industry is now facing. That's according to experts at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson.

9 Mar 2020

Anders Sundvik, vice president of research and development for Camfil.

Reducing risk of viruses using high efficiency air filtration

A research team comprising of scientists from the United States, Canada and Spain reveals that more than 800 million viruses fall on every square metre of the planetary boundary layer (the lowest part of the atmosphere) every day. The risk of ...

27 Feb 2020

Airborne water droplets are a big issue, if you catch my drift

Gary Dicker, director at DHD Cooling, presents a checklist for eliminating dangerous drift from cooling towers....

13 Feb 2020

Industry needs to fill roles to be net zero fit

More young people are being encouraged to take up a career in the heating sector following a new report which estimates 400,000 energy related jobs will need to be filled to create a workforce fit to achieve net zero by 2050....

10 Feb 2020

How ironing, washing your clothes and cleaning your house could be damaging your health

Zehnder UK has found that astounding pollution levels are being caused by everyday indoor activities. These include ironing, washing clothes and cleaning your home....

7 Feb 2020

Vent-Axia supports landmark IAQ Report

Vent-Axia has welcomed the latest joint report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the Royal College of Physicians on the health impact of indoor air quality (IAQ) on children and young people....

7 Feb 2020

Decarbonising heating with hydrogen-ready boilers

With a new report from the Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA) highlighting the record number of gas boilers being sold and with 22 million homes across the UK having gas central heating, Darran Smith, technical manager at Alpha Heating Innovation, ...

29 Jan 2020

Trump can’t see the big opportunity

Donald Trump claims to be defending the US economy by downplaying the threat from climate change, but he is doing the exact opposite, according to BESA chief executive David Frise....

27 Jan 2020

Jenny Smith, head of marketing at Vent-Axia.

Vent-Axia welcomes new IAQ guidance

Vent-Axia has welcomed the publication of guidance on ‘Indoor Air Quality at Home’ from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)....

16 Jan 2020

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