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Efficiency should be priority for FMs, says ebm-papst

With growing pressure on energy supply, fan manufacturer ebm-papst has called on the FM industry to focus on energy efficiency as a priority rather than getting side-tracked by things like PV.

20 Apr 2012

BSS Industrial appoints Austin Stroud sales manager

BSS Industrial has appointed Roger Attisha as sales manager for its Austin Stroud brand, stainless and carbon steel pipeline products.

20 Apr 2012

MITIE appoints new national social housing director

MITIE, the outsourcing and energy services company, has appointed Peter Griffin as its new social housing director with responsibility for consolidating its existing social housing offering under a unified national business.

20 Apr 2012

Amtech extends relationship with Xetec for Ireland

Amtech, the developer of software for the building services industry, has broadened its long-standing partnership with Irish software specialist Xetec. Under this new agreement, Xetec will be the preferred reseller of all Amtech products in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

20 Apr 2012

World market for ac up 13%

While the Euro crisis continues to affect the air conditioning market here, worldwide sales were up 13 per cent last year, according to a new report from BSRIA.

19 Apr 2012

FG Eurofred recruits customer services manager

FG Eurofred has appointed Zubair Ali as customer services manager.

19 Apr 2012

BBES apprentices take third place in national challenge

Eight apprentices from Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) working on the Sellafield Site recently came third in the Brathay Apprentice Challenge 2012.

19 Apr 2012

Building firm prosecuted after woman is hit by air handling unit

Hertfordshire building firm Concentra has been fined after a woman who was waiting for a bus was hit by an air handling unit being lifted by a crane to the fifth floor of a nearby office block.

19 Apr 2012

e2 launches ductwork trading division

e2 Environmental Engineering (Mansfield) has launched a new ductwork trading division called ecoduct, after gaining recognition as a Kingspan KoolDuct system delivery partner.

19 Apr 2012

eu.bac outlines five steps to a greener future

eu.bac, the European Building Automation and Controls Association, has produced a paper to coincide with the informal meeting of energy ministers currently taking place (17 to 20 April) in Horsens, Denmark.

19 Apr 2012

Giacomini launches hydrogen powered boiler

Giacomini (UK) has developed a new hydrogen burner and is looking for a high-tech, new build home with high insulation values, in which to carry out its first UK installation of the system.

18 Apr 2012

Alex Salmond to address delegates at All-Energy 2012

Alex Salmond MSP will deliver the keynote address at All-Energy 2012, the UK's biggest renewable energy exhibition and conference, which takes place on 23 and 24 May at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC).

18 Apr 2012

BMF reports slight rise in sales of building materials

Sales of building materials nationally rose by just over 0.6% for the three months from December 2011 to February 2012, compared to the same period in 2010/11, according to the latest figures from the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF).

18 Apr 2012

Swedish Energy Agency funds work to establish guidelines

ClimaCheck and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden have been awarded funding worth €120,000 by the Swedish Energy Agency to lead the development of methods and guidelines for field measurements of the System Efficiency Index (SEI) - a method of verifying and improving the energy performance of air conditioning and heat pump systems.

18 Apr 2012

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Efficiency should be priority for FMs, says ebm-papst

BSS Industrial appoints Austin Stroud sales manager

MITIE appoints new national social housing director

Amtech extends relationship with Xetec for Ireland

World market for ac up 13%

FG Eurofred recruits customer services manager

BBES apprentices take third place in national challenge

Building firm prosecuted after woman is hit by air handling unit

e2 launches ductwork trading division

eu.bac outlines five steps to a greener future

Giacomini launches hydrogen powered boiler

Alex Salmond to address delegates at All-Energy 2012

BMF reports slight rise in sales of building materials

Swedish Energy Agency funds work to establish guidelines

Gas fitter jailed for manslaughter

Travis Perkins and Toriga partner for Green Deal proposition

Vokera voices disappointment over RHI delays

British plumbers are indispensable but still stereotyped

New commercial manager at Ashworth

Vokera offers cashback on boilers for APHC members

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