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VACR LIVE POSTPONED
VACR Live, the UK’s onl y dedicated national event for the heating, ventilation,
air conditioning and refrigeration sectors, which was due to take place from April 20-22, 2020 at ExCeL London, has been postponed. Event organiser Karena Cooper said: “This was a very difficult
decision as HVACR Live was set to be a fantastic event and unlike anything we’ve done before. However, with a large percentage of international exhibitors now unable to attend, we cannot commit to running a show which is clearly reduced and will not meet customer satisfaction levels. So many people have worked so hard to make it something special. We are in contact with all companies
involved and are working to pro vide positive outcomes and on-going support right through until next year’s event.”
Since the UK’s exit from the EU there have been an outstanding number of global companies signing up to take part in HV Live. Despite this postponement the show is shaping up to have truly multinational representation as companies plan to launch their business into the UK market.
e part in HVACR
Following advic e from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England, its business as usual, but in light of the global mix of our exhibitors, Datateam Business Media has
postponed HVACR Live with the aim of serving and representing the industry more effectively in 2021. The outbreak of Coronavirus is very concerning and the health, safety and wellbeing of our visitors and exhibitors is our number one priority.
Event director Paul Ryder said:
“We are working with our partners to ensure that we bring a truly exciting HVACR Live event to the industry in 2021.”
The event is to be re-scheduled in Spring 2021 and the new dates will be announced shortly.
For questions relating to this announcement please contact Karena Cooper:
KCooper@datateam.co.uk
KENSA JOIN THE TEDX DEBATEATE K
ensa Contracting’s recently appointed director of business development, Karl Darge, has joined the global Technolgy, Entertainment and Design (TED) community with a recent presentation at Leamington Spa College on climate change and the role of heat pumps. This TEDx (TED events) talk, ‘Climate Change and Fuel Poverty: Engineering a Solution with Ground Source Heat Pumps’, aimed to encourage more consumers to adopt ground source heat pumps, and influence government policy to deliver a future of sustainable, low carbon heating infrastructure in place of fossil fuels.
During his talk, Mr Drage delivered hard-hitting truths about the current climate crisis and the stark effects of fuel poverty before offering a viable and tangible solution to these issues in the form of heat pumps.
Mr Darge said: “The way in which we heat our homes is currently at the very heart of the climate crisis and this has got to change. Heat is the single biggest factor in UK domestic energy consumption, contributing one-third of our greenhouse gas emissions, and is the single biggest
cause of air pollution and climate gases.”
The talk outlined sobering statistics: 11 per cent of households in England andWales and 35 per cent in Scotland are currently fuel poor (equating to 3,751,000 people), 50,000 of whom will die this winter in the UK because they are simply not able to heat their homes. Furthermore, the cost to the NHS from problems with cold homes is over £1.3 billion pounds. That cost doesn’t take into account the reduced quality of life of people and communities living in cold, damp and rotting homes. “These statistics are pretty hard to swallow,” continued Mr Darge. “Given that the technologies exist right now to solve the climate change problem, eliminate early winter deaths and cure fuel poverty.
“We are experiencing a disruptive change in the heating industry. Just like we have seen Uber change the way we hire Taxis, over the next few years heat pumps will completely change the way we heat our homes.” Kensa has adopted ground source heat pumps with ambient temperature shared ground loop arrays, with the aim of delivering substantial carbon emission reductions and running cost savings utilising the most efficient renewable heat technology.
Mr Darge concluded his talk by calling on homeowners to drive the demand for heat pumps and renewables to tackle the issues of climate change and fuel poverty head-on. He also explored the possible shape of a post- renewable heat incentive funding package to enable the wide-scale adoption of renewables, in the form of ‘Heat as a Service’, which in years to come will enable consumer adoption of this low carbon, low cost technology without the upfront cost.
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Government should embr ace a range of solutions to decarbonise heat in future homes with a focus on achieving emission reduction targets rather than prescribing technologies, says OFTEC in its response to the recent Future Homes Standard consultation.
www.oftec.org
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Finn Geotherm has r eached the milestone of ensuring £20 million
milestone of ensuring £20 mil in Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) payments will be shared among the hundreds of customers for which it has designed and installed ground and air source heat pump systems.
www.finn-geotherm.co.uk Switch2 Energy has welcomed
the Government’s multi-million funding commitment to UK heat networks, along with its proposals to increase customer protection and accelerate decarbonisation in the sector
www.switch2.co.uk
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Jet Environmental has revealed an optimistic picture for the future of the business as Britain leaves the European Union, with a 4% increase in revenue during 2019 following double-digit increases in the previous year.
www.jetenvironmental.com
Renewable energy is fast becoming the norm and with climate change now a very real problem more and more people are thinking about investing in a renewable energy source.
www.wundagroup.com
The Specialist Engineering ernment to ensur
Contractors’ (SEC) Group is urging the Government to ensur e that the Building Safety Regulator has wide enough powers to deal with all matters affecting building safety.
www.secgroup.org.uk
German intelligent home climate management company, tado°, has sold over one million smart thermostats in Europe.
www.tado.com
There are celebrations all round at Coolair Equipment as the company celebrates its 40th anniversary.
www.coolair
co.uk
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www.heatingandventilating.net
March 2020
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