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Bosch Commercial & Industrial HIUs BESA registered

Bosch Commercial & Industrial has announced its Greenstar HIU range is now BESA registered. Developed by a group of industry experts, the BESA HIU test regime is the UK test standard for HIUs, originally developed to assess UK heat network ...

15 Apr 2020

Andrew Hounsfiled with a Tuscan wall hung boiler

Boiler donated to heating professional training centre

Hounsfield Boilers has donated a 12/19 Kitchen Model boiler to a leading electrical, oil and water training centre in East Anglia....

15 Apr 2020

BPIE Action Plan to support economic recovery and launch a renovation wave

The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE), has released its latest publication, "An Action Plan for the Renovation Wave: Collectively achieving sustainable buildings in Europe." The publication sets forth a strategy to deliver climate-...

15 Apr 2020

Founders of MENTalk – Steve Smith, Lee Woodgate and Stephen Blair

MENTalk and Baxi team up to put installer well-being first

Baxi has announced a new partnership with MENTalk, an online community that encourages men to open up and support each other with mental health issues, to help raise awareness of personal well-being and provide support for plumbing and heating ...

14 Apr 2020

Mates in Mind COVID-19 Relief Fund Appeal

Mates in Mind has called for donations to its COVID-19 Relief Fund which will allow it to continue to respond with vital support programmes. It is now expected that workplace mental health issues will be heavily impacted by the economic fallout of ...

14 Apr 2020

German fan manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg has used its 3D printers to develop face masks for health workers

Coronavirus face masks created on a 3D printer

German fan manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg has created face masks on 3D printers for use by health and care workers in the Hohenlohe district in Germany....

14 Apr 2020

Product design team leader at Preston-based Baxi Heating Alan Peel with the protective face mask he has designed and developed with his team

Baxi Heating makes masks to help fight coronavirus

Design engineers at Baxi Heating have stepped in to help the NHS during the coronavirus crisis by swapping the use of 3D printers from making prototype boiler components to frames for protective face masks....

9 Apr 2020

HVR Awards 2020 – entries close June 26

It's more important than ever now to celebrate innovation, excellence, achievement and hard work from across the heating and ventilating industry so why not get your entries in by the June 26 deadline....

7 Apr 2020

Webinar shows how to get more from heat network metering and billing

Switch2 Energy is hosting a free webinar to show local authorities and housing associations how to get the most out of compliant heat network metering and billing....

7 Apr 2020

OFTEC registrations director Adrian Lightwood

OFTEC supports heating technicians during COVID-19 crisis

OFTEC is extending all current business and technician registrations for two months, free of charge, as part of the trade association’s support for its 9,000 registrants during the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses paying monthly by direct debit will ...

7 Apr 2020

Don’t forget mental health during crisis – BESA

Employers should prepare for a likely surge in mental health problems during the current lockdown, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA)....

7 Apr 2020

Carrier is now an independent, publicly traded company

Carrier Global Corporation has become an independent, publicly traded company after successfully completing its separation from United Technologies....

7 Apr 2020

A-Gas urges Government to recognise industry in support of critical services

A-Gas is calling on the Government to recognise the role of the HVACR industry in providing critical support during the coronavirus pandemic. Cooling engineers are helping to maintain the running of hospitals, care facilities, supermarkets, food ...

7 Apr 2020

Airedale International managing director Anthony Cole

Air conditioning specialist keeps its cool during pandemic

UK air conditioning manufacturer, Airedale International, is sustaining its operations to help keep technology functioning during the current coronavirus pandemic....

7 Apr 2020

Mitsubishi Electric has acquired Swedish distributor AQS Produckter

Mitsubishi Electric Europe acquires Swedish air conditioning distributor

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's European subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. has acquired all shares of AQS Produckter – a comfort, process and IT cooling and heat pump distributor in Sweden, a market though to have promising prospects....

7 Apr 2020

Camfil acquires air filtration specialists

Camfil Svenska has acquired the family owned air filtration specialist Resema. Resema was established in 1969 by Rune Sellö and has two production facilities in Sweden, in Tranås and Aneby, with sales offices in Stockholm and Malmö along with a ...

7 Apr 2020

UK Innovation slumps

Innovation in the construction sector has fallen 14 percentage points in two years as R&D by UK industries fell to the lowest levels since the credit crunch, analysis of the latest ONS data by R&D tax relief specialist Catax has found....

7 Apr 2020

FETA confirms new date for Annual Luncheon

Due to the spread of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown the Federation of Environmental Trade Associations (FETA) has postponed its Annual Luncheon originally scheduled for Thursday April 23, 2020. The lunch has now been re-arranged for ...

3 Apr 2020

Mark Burgess has joined Conex Bänninger as regional technical sales manager

New appointment at Conex Bänninger

Mark Burgess, who has more than 35 years sales experience in the heating industry, has joined fittings manufacturer Conex Bänninger as a regional technical sales manager....

3 Apr 2020

BESA Training pauses apprentice end point assessments

The training arm of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has announced, following discussions with the Education Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), that it is suspending the delivery of End Point Assessments (EPA) for apprentices during ...

3 Apr 2020

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Bosch Commercial & Industrial HIUs BESA registered

Boiler donated to heating professional training centre

BPIE Action Plan to support economic recovery and launch a renovation wave

MENTalk and Baxi team up to put installer well-being first

Mates in Mind COVID-19 Relief Fund Appeal

Coronavirus face masks created on a 3D printer

Baxi Heating makes masks to help fight coronavirus

HVR Awards 2020 – entries close June 26

Webinar shows how to get more from heat network metering and billing

OFTEC supports heating technicians during COVID-19 crisis

Don’t forget mental health during crisis – BESA

Carrier is now an independent, publicly traded company

A-Gas urges Government to recognise industry in support of critical services

Air conditioning specialist keeps its cool during pandemic

Mitsubishi Electric Europe acquires Swedish air conditioning distributor

Camfil acquires air filtration specialists

UK Innovation slumps

FETA confirms new date for Annual Luncheon

New appointment at Conex Bänninger

BESA Training pauses apprentice end point assessments

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