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HRP and BOC move forward together


HRP AND BOC have signed a new long-term agreement for HRP to distribute BOC gases to the refrigeration and air conditioning industries. With the support of BOC, HRP claims to have developed the most comprehensive service of advice, supply, recovery and reprocessing available to the UK industry.


According to HRP


managing director, Mandy Pilgrim: “Refrigerants have become an increasingly complex area, with


regulations on handling, use and disposal. Our aim has been to provide contractors with a service which helps them to meet all their obligations.”


HRP cylinders for regularly used gases are barcoded to allow easy tracking throughout their


life. Contractors can log into HRP’s system to view the status of cylinders booked out to them and use the system to track cylinders within their own businesses.


Supply is assured through delivery or collection from HRP’s 15 service centres, with strategic support stock is held at four HRP hubs and by BOC to ensure volume availability. The two companies are pursuing plans to widen distribution options to bring greater convenience to the market.


Ruth Leland, sales and marketing manager for BOC refrigerants said: “We are delighted to renew this agreement with HRP. Over twelve years we have refined and developed a depth of service that meets the changing needs of the industry.”


A new world of performance


THE CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium 2014 is to look at systems, technology and behaviour in our future cities and built environment Entitled ‘Moving to a new world of building systems performance’, the CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium will take place in Dublin on 3-4 April 2014. The Symposium, which encourages practitioners and researchers from industry and academia to share experience and new insight, will focus around the recognition that system and plant performance in the built environment is a global issue.


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Speakers from both sides of the Atlantic will be presenting in a packed programme scheduled over the two days of the Symposium, which this year is being held at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, Ireland. Professor Tim Dwyer, who has helped organise the Symposium content, said: “The Symposium will consider a range of topics that underpin the engineering assessment, design and operation of systems that integrate with the aim of delivering future cities that not only provide inhabitants with acceptable and maintainable conditions but strive to mitigate their environmental impact. “We have seen part of this challenge brought into sharp focus over the past 12 months with continued urban density growth in fast developing nations and incidents such as air quality issues in China, political and consumer reactions to rising energy costs in the UK, and the


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resilience of buildings in the freezing weather conditions recently experienced in North America.”


Touching on many pertinent issues therefore, this year’s event is being supported by Catapult Future Cities, and will embrace a broad perspective of viewpoints around the central theme of building systems performance.


Confirmed presentations include:  Walgreen’s Net-Zero Energy Store


 Neural and cognitive correlates of human decision-making in domestic energy use


 The application of wireless sensor networks for building energy modelling


 Developing building archetypes for electrical load shifting assessment: analysis of Irish residential stock


 Novel techniques for modelling energy demand in the built environment


 Delivering an energy model for BREEAM and LEED – exposing what really matters


 LEDs are the panacea – and other fairy tales.


The event expands CIBSE president, George Adams’s presidential address ‘Whole Life Thinking’. In this address he


commented that engineers working in the built environment had an urgent responsibility to help reduce energy consumption and provide for adaptation of buildings and cities to respond to the challenges of climate change while accommodating the needs of rapidly growing populations.


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