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Aira announces plans to accelerate the electrification of residential heating in Europe

European clean energy-tech company, Aira, has announced €150M equity financing to accelerate the electrification of residential heating across Europe. The investment is secured from existing investors, Altor, Kallskär1, Kinnevik, Lingotto and ...

12 Aug 2025

BSRIA becomes first UKAS-accredited provider for BTS 4/2024: Airtightness Testing of Raised Access Plenum Floors

BSRIA has become the first organisation to achieve UKAS accreditation for airtightness testing of Raised Access Plenum Floors (RAPFs)....

12 Aug 2025

Chance to solve late payment ‘once and for all’ welcomed

Industry bodies have welcomed a new consultation launched by the government as a “once in a generation” opportunity to tackle the ongoing threat to small engineering businesses posed by late payment and retentions....

6 Aug 2025

Malcolm Farrow, head of public affairs at OFTEC

MPs urged to back affordable green heating campaign for oil heated homes

Local MPs representing rural constituencies are being urged to call on the government to deliver more affordable low carbon heating solutions for the 1.7m homes in the UK currently using oil heating....

6 Aug 2025

Stefan Hartung, chairman of the Bosch board of management

The Bosch Group completes Johnson Controls HVAC acquisition

The Bosch Group has successfully completed the largest acquisition in its history. The acquisition of the residential and light commercial heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) business from Johnson Controls and the acquisition of the ...

6 Aug 2025

Ziehl-Abegg CEO Joachim Ley and Rebecca Amlun, product management

First AI-generated specialist podcast on ventilation technology

With Airstream Insights, Ziehl-Abegg is launching a fully AI-generated specialist podcast dedicated to ventilation technology. The English-language series will be released every two weeks and leverages the opportunities of digitalization to present ...

6 Aug 2025

Urgent review of pressure boosting systems needed to prevent pipe bursts in buildings

Facilities managers, local authorities and building engineers are being advised to review the resilience of their water pressure boosting systems to avoid the potential danger of major pipe bursts and internal flooding in residential developments....

6 Aug 2025

Record number of renewables being installed into UK homes

According to data from MCS, the UK’s quality mark for small-scale renewables such as solar panels and heat pumps, there were a record 170,000 certified renewable installations in the first six months of 2025. This is a 37% increase on the equivalent ...

6 Aug 2025

Fernox swings into action for charity golf event

Fernox has hosted its annual charity golf day since 2010, and in that time has raised over £100,000 for a range of worthy causes. This year, the event once again proved a success raising over £11,000 in aid of Shooting Star Children’s Hospice ...

30 Jul 2025

BSRIA research reveals complex reality in retrofit challenge

While concerns over funding for retrofit projects are widespread, with half (51%) of construction professionals citing cost as a major barrier, new research from BSRIA reveals that budgets are only one part of a much more complex challenge....

30 Jul 2025

Carrier to host webinar on empowering the future with high-temperature heat pumps

In today’s built environment, wasted energy is a huge problem. Demand Logic revealed recently that UK office buildings alone continue to waste the equivalent of an entire year’s CO2 emissions from 3,470 homes in just 24 hours, due largely to ...

30 Jul 2025

Baxi Commercial Solutions Showcase event arrives in Scotland

Baxi has welcomed 40 of its heating professional customers, including consultant engineers, designers, M&E contractors and merchants to its first Commercial Solutions Showcase event at the Gannet venue at Edinburgh Zoo to discuss opportunities ...

30 Jul 2025

Chancellor visits Kensa and champions Cornwall’s green growth opportunity

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, visited Truro-based ground source heat pump manufacturer Kensa to hear from Cornish businesses driving green growth and investment, and take part in a roundtable to discuss their role in Britain’s ...

30 Jul 2025

Heat Pump Association announces next vice chair

The Heat Pump Association (HPA) has appointed Chris Taylor-Hamlin, senior environment research manager at Daikin, as its next Vice Chair. He will enter his new post in September 2025....

24 Jul 2025

Acquisition strengthens Daikin's heat pump service network in Scotland

Daikin has announced the acquisition of Saltire Facilities Management, a heating services company based in Glasgow. This strategic acquisition by Daikin Airconditioning UK is expected to enhance the company’s residential heat pump service network in ...

23 Jul 2025

WaterSafe urges plumbers to use only lead-free solder to protect UK drinking water

WaterSafe, the UK’s free online search facility supported by the water industry to help customers find competent and qualified plumbers, is issuing a strong call to all plumbing professionals: make the switch to lead-free solder exclusively. This ...

23 Jul 2025

BESA’s head of employment affairs Paula Samuels

Building engineering workers vote for three-year wage deal

Unite the union and building engineering services employers have agreed a three-year pay deal for operatives that will come into force on October 6 this year....

23 Jul 2025

Are synthetic gases the replacement for fossil fuels?

Rinnai UK’s Operations Director Chris Goggin explains what synthetic gases are being developed and produced as a possible replacement to natural gas. Further information of production methods will be considered when evaluating the practical and technical feasibility of introducing synthetic gasses into UK and international energy infrastructure.

23 Jul 2025

Vent-Axia welcomes Awaab’s Law draft guidance

British ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia has welcomed the Government’s recent publication of ‘Awaab’s Law: Draft guidance for social landlords’, following the law being laid out in front of Parliament on 25 June 2025....

22 Jul 2025

Green skills surge as low-carbon tech rewires UK homes and careers

According to new research from Uswitch.com, the comparison and switching service, the UK’s shift to clean home energy is accelerating, and it’s opening the door to thousands of green job opportunities....

22 Jul 2025

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Aira announces plans to accelerate the electrification of residential heating in Europe

BSRIA becomes first UKAS-accredited provider for BTS 4/2024: Airtightness Testing of Raised Access Plenum Floors

Chance to solve late payment ‘once and for all’ welcomed

MPs urged to back affordable green heating campaign for oil heated homes

The Bosch Group completes Johnson Controls HVAC acquisition

First AI-generated specialist podcast on ventilation technology

Urgent review of pressure boosting systems needed to prevent pipe bursts in buildings

Record number of renewables being installed into UK homes

Fernox swings into action for charity golf event

BSRIA research reveals complex reality in retrofit challenge

Carrier to host webinar on empowering the future with high-temperature heat pumps

Baxi Commercial Solutions Showcase event arrives in Scotland

Chancellor visits Kensa and champions Cornwall’s green growth opportunity

Heat Pump Association announces next vice chair

Acquisition strengthens Daikin's heat pump service network in Scotland

WaterSafe urges plumbers to use only lead-free solder to protect UK drinking water

Building engineering workers vote for three-year wage deal

Are synthetic gases the replacement for fossil fuels?

Vent-Axia welcomes Awaab’s Law draft guidance

Green skills surge as low-carbon tech rewires UK homes and careers

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