Paul Bannister awarded James Harrison Medal
AIRAH has named Paul Bannister, F.AIRAH, as the 2021 winner of the James Harrison Medal for noteworthy achievements in the Australian HVAC&R sector.
About his career, Bannister has concentrated on improving strength efficiency in structures, in particular energy related to HVAC.
Bannister was seriously associated in the advancement of the Australian Creating Greenhouse Ranking Procedure, which grew to come to be NABERS. This went on to come to be a accomplishment tale of the created atmosphere – in excess of the earlier two a long time it has saved $1 billion in power expenses for users, and averted 7 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. Now, 78 for every cent of all Australia’s business office room is rated with NABERS.
For the 2019 update of Segment J (Energy Efficiency) of the National Design Code, Bannister led a crew of 20 staff to undertake the big project. It resulted in sizeable enhancements in the power-performance demands for new professional properties.
In 1999, Bannister founded Exergy, an strength administration consultancy that grew to a lot more than 30 staff around the next 15 many years. He currently serves as director of innovation at DeltaQ.
“It’s a wonderful honour and genuinely rather out of the blue!” states Bannister. “It is seriously good to get recognition for what I hope has been a significant and beneficial input to the sector.
“I am exceptionally lucky that I have been equipped to make a occupation out of anything I sense passionate about: earning the earth a better spot. This passion has saved me heading as a result of thick and slim and continues to be the detail that keeps me coming back again for extra.”
The James Harrison Medal is the greatest honour AIRAH can bestow on an individual. Bannister will accept the medal at the AIRAH Awards 2021 ceremony, scheduled for February 17, 2022, in Sydney.
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