2020 marks the
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he acr industry excels at trailblazing and while the driver for developing this year’s unique Awards event is the terrible Covid- 19 crisis, as a publication supporting such an industry, we could
do no less – and the 2020 ACR News Awards became the fi rst virtual Awards in acr. This is the one of the biggest little industries in the world, populated
by some incredibly passionate people doing exceptionally innovative things and the whole world should know that, and that is also what the Awards are all about. The ACR News Awards has fi rmly established itself as focal point in the industry calendar since its launch in 1997 and this year was no diff erent as we gathered, albeit virtually, to honour the cutting- edge products and inspirational professionals from across the air conditioning and refrigeration sector. Everyone’s participation in this year’s Awards has continued to show the industry’s support for this scheme and the importance of recognising those that help to make the sector shine. Particular thanks for their unwavering support must go to Bitzer, Blended, Carrier, CIAT, Climalife, Hawco, Pacair, Smith Brothers Stores and Toshiba. Also Gel Clear, Harp, Pump House and White Recruitment. A big thank you to all who entered, all who judged and voted, and those who supported the event – and most of all, huge congratulations to those who won on the night.
Judges
Roger Borer BA (Hons), FInstR has over 45 years’ experience working in refrigeration engineering, retail engineering services/construction project management and general business management. He is currently Executive Offi cer for the Building Controls Industry Association (BCIA).
Roger has a BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies and is a Fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration. Martyn Cooper, commercial manager at FETA, joined the Federation in May 2015 after a 37 year long career in the chemical industry. His role now includes supporting various sections within several of the member associations of FETA; BRA, HPA and HEVAC. He has also been involved in the launch and
promotion of the recent BRA Putting into Use Replacement Refrigerants (PURR) report. Graeme Fox has been a contractor for over
years running his own small family business specialising in building services; air conditioning, heat pumps and climate control. He has served on the BESA Council since 2005 and represented contractors
Lynn Sencicle Managing Editor
ACR News
at AREA since 2004, as well as serving with the IoR and ACRIB, and has recently become head of technical at BESA. Richard Merritt has 25 years’ experience in the industry having started out as an apprentice with Haden Young. In 2001 he took over the family business AC Solutions Group as managing director. Richard is Hertfordshire Branch Chairman of BESA as well as a member of the BESA
specialist RACHP group executive committee. A member of the Institute of Refrigeration, Licentiate at the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers and Engineering Technician status at the Engineering Council.
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Alan Dedicoat hosted the virtual ACR News Awards.
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