AIRAH announces award winners – HVAC&R News
AIRAH has announced the winners of the AIRAH Awards 2021 at a black-tie gala event in Sydney. Leading figures from Australia’s HVAC&R setting up solutions sector took a long-awaited option to reunite and increase a toast to the standout individuals, assignments and products and solutions in the sector.
The winners, chosen throughout 13 types, exemplify the industry’s attempts to make the crafted setting a lot more sustainable, risk-free, healthful and inclusive. AIRAH’s greatest honour, the James Harrison Medal, was awarded to Health care provider Paul Bannister, F.AIRAH, for his work improving strength performance in structures, particularly by means of NABERS and the Countrywide Building Code.
AIRAH CEO Tony Gleeson, M.AIRAH, states the function, rescheduled thanks to the pandemic, was truly worth the hold out.
“We appreciate the worth of meeting in person,” claims Gleeson, “especially for an occasion like the AIRAH Awards, exactly where the purpose is to applaud the best and brightest of our field, and increase a glass in their honour.
“This calendar year in distinct you could really feel the anticipation. It was the very first time lots of of us experienced viewed each individual other encounter to face for nearly two yrs, and we all had a lot to share.”
Gleeson states that there was also a good deal of positive dialogue about the potential.
“We recognise that the most significant challenges lie ahead – and we will have to experience them in a united way. Whether or not it be lowering the carbon depth of our structures or strengthening indoor air quality, we will will need to collaborate far more than at any time above the coming yrs and many years. Occasions like the AIRAH Awards help affirm our ties and frequent targets, and remind us of the crucial position we are poised to enjoy.
“To the winners and the finalists of the AIRAH Awards 2021, I offer you my congratulations.”
The winners of the AIRAH Awards 2021 are:
Very best HVAC Retrofit or Upgrade
ESBS – ACT Educational institutions HVAC Updates
Excellence in Range and Inclusion
TAFE NSW – Refrigeration Training Part Ultimo Faculty
Excellence in HVAC&R Investigation
Keivan Bamdad Masouleh – Design Predictive Control (MPC) to Increase HVAC Procedure
Excellence in Innovation (Sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric powered)
Glaciem Cooling Technologies – Advancing Renewable Electrical power with Thermal Vitality Storage
Excellence in Refrigeration
Glaciem Cooling Systems – ARENA-WF Montague
Scantec Refrigeration Technologies – Fernhurst (joint winners)
Excellence in Sustainability (Sponsored by Superior Teaching Centre)
Aurecon and A.G. Coombs – 25 King Road
Foreseeable future Leader (Sponsored by A.G. Coombs)
Iain Stewart, Affil.AIRAH
Revolutionary use of Renewable Electrical power in HVAC&R
Glaciem Cooling Technologies – Advancing Renewable Electrical power with Thermal Power Storage
Product of the Yr (Sponsored by HVAC&R Lookup)
Camfil – Kaire Device
University student of the Yr – Better Instruction or Investigate
Ashfaque Chowdhury, Affil.AIRAH – Central Queensland College
Scholar of the Year – Trade (Sponsored by LG)
Jessica Lonsdale, Stud.AIRAH – BHP Nickel West/South Metropolitan TAFE
WR Ahern Award (Sponsored by Ecolibrium)
“Effective integration of polymer plate heat exchangers – A simulation examine for assessing their use in tall professional workplace buildings” – Dr Chris Menictas, M.AIRAH Arjun Adhikari, M.AIRAH Professor Guan H. Yeoh and Dr Victoria Timchenko (Ecolibrium June/July, 2020)
James Harrison Medal
Paul Bannister, F.AIRAH
For extra info about the AIRAH Awards 2021, like the winners and finalists, go to airah.org.au/awards.
AIRAH many thanks the Awards Gala Sponsor, Daikin, as effectively as person awards sponsors Mitsubishi Electrical, Excellent Coaching Centre, A.G. Coombs, LG, HVAC&R Look for and Ecolibrium.