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The Institute of Refrigeration is calling for nominations for the J&E Hall International Gold Medal. The J&E Hall International Gold Medal acknowledges outstanding technical achievements in refrigeration.
Now in its 40th year, this internationally respected award is given in recognition of outstanding technical achievements in refrigeration and related fields. The award is open to individuals or teams with recent outstanding achievements in one or more of the following areas: ■ Practical applications of innovative designs;
■ Projects which have made an original contribution to the field;
■ Systems which demonstrate substantial potential and evidence that they will be completed successfully;
■ Outstanding and significant work in a new or unusual area.
The award is designed to encourage progress rather than acknowledge past achievement, and the winner will join a select list of recipients that includes refrigeration greats such as Professor Gustav Lorentzen, Professor P. Ole Fanger, Professor Don Cleland, Mr Ron Conry and Professor Pega Hrnjak.
The presentation will take place at the 118th IOR Annual Dinner in London, and the winner will receive a gold medal to hold for one year, a silver replica to keep and a cash award of £5,000.
Information about the award and a nomination pack is available at
www.ior.org.uk/awards, or email
ior@ior.org.uk All nominations must include a contact address, email address and a few words about the nature of the achievement of the nominee. Nominations are requested by the 15 October 2017.
Recognising the increasing percentage of engineering tasks being conducted in a purely digital environment, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has launched the Society of Digital Engineering (SDE). The Society will provide a
community for accreditation, training and career advancement for all engineers working digitally across building services and its supply chain, including clients.
CIBSE has taken the lead in developing support, guidance and specific tools for digital engineers. The most notable recent example was the development, with NG Bailey, of the BIMHawk online tool to automate the transfer of Product Data Templates into BIM platforms. This experience illustrated the number of engineering professionals involved not only in building services but also product design, facilities management, and information control, whose common experience lies in their shared understanding of working in a digital environment. For this group of people – which will include both new entrants and experienced engineers recognising the importance of digital technology for their future career – there is currently no obvious route to recognition of their specialised knowledge or association to provide continuous knowledge sharing,
support and career advancement. SDE is designed to meet this need. Entry to SDE requires
applicants to be measured against competence criteria that have been mapped against both CIBSE and the Engineering Council UK requirements. This has been drafted for full membership, as well as for EngTEch and IEng up to CEng status, ensuring that SDE can deliver career progression through the SDE grades, leading to MCIBSE and EC Registration.
CIBSE president, Peter Y Wong, commented: “The formation of the Society of Digital Engineering demonstrates the importance of digital technology in the building services sector and the commitment of CIBSE to develop the art and science of digital engineering.” Summarising the rationale behind the formation of the Society, Les Copeland, commercial director, Property and Buildings at WSP and chair of CIBSE Digital Steering Group, added: “This is a significant step in CIBSE’s work with industry on digital engineering and is the culmination of many years work by the CIBSE Digital Steering Group. It will provide a home for digital engineers to network, share and create best practice and find sources of information, training and peer groups.”
The University of Birmingham is to host what is said to be the world’s first international congress dedicated to clean cold. Academic experts will join leaders from industry and government to map a global response to ever-increasing global demands for cooling.
Hosted by the University of Birmingham, experts will gather in spring 2018 to help create a joined-up global community that will figure out how to partner environmental policy with science to combat climate change driven by cooling.
The congress was announced by Professor Toby Peters, from the University of Birmingham, speaking at the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) ‘Cooling for All’ workshop, during the UN General Assembly in New York City.
The ‘Cool World’ conference will be the first international congress dedicated to clean cold. Participants will address a wide range of issues, including:
Future role of cooling - where demand will come from and what will drive it; ■ Economic, social and health opportunities of cold for the developing world;
■ Social, environmental and economic risks of not addressing demand or using existing, predominantly fossil fuelled, technologies;
■ Alternative and emerging clean cold technologies; and
■ Economic opportunity created by a new ‘cold economy’.
The Birmingham congress will support the SEforALL ‘Cooling for All’ initiative, launched in July, to identify the challenges and opportunities of providing access to affordable, sustainable cooling solutions for all. The initiative is supported by the UN, World Health Organisation (WHO), industry experts and Governments.
12 Octoberber 2017
www.acr-news.com
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