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Building our future
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Healthy Homes and Buildings has just launched its Green Paper (Read our story on pg 6) and this is a golden opportunity for the HVAC sector to get involved in ensuring the wellbeing of building occupants. By contributing suggestions, ideas, potential solutions and feedback on the Green Paper, the industry can help to form the basis of the APPG’s policy recommendations to the Government. Leading industry trade assocation BEAMA, an advocate of
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greater awareness of indoor air quality (IAQ) is leading a call for industry to make its voice heard. With rising concern over IAQ levels in commercial buildings
and continued focus on wellbeing, the HVAC sector must take this opportunity to assert itself. Visit
healthyhomesbuildings.org.uk Elsewhere in HVR this month, there is a so much going on, which
is perhaps a sign that summer is over and it’s back to business. Tim Hopkinson has been named the new president of The Building Engineering Services Association and on pg 14 we have an interview with him on his plans to put youth in the spotlight. Our annual Commercial Boiler Supplement is back, featuring most of the UK’s top commercial heating manufacturers. Add to that HVR Domestic, features on air conditioning, air handling units, energy efficiency and underfloor heating and you have a bumper issue.
Heather Ramsden, Editor Ross Anderson Stephen Gill Martyn Cooper Wayne Terry
They have chosen the winners in the following categories: Commercial/Industrial Ventilation Product of the Year, Commercial/Industrial Heating Product of the Year, Commercial/Industrial Air Conditioning Product of the Year, Sustainable Product of the Year, Sustainable Project of the Year and Contractor of the Year.
Finalists REVEALED ON PG 16&17 Tom Garrigan
he industry has until the end of the month to submit responses and evidence to help in the formation of policy suggestions on healthy buildings.
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ntries have now fully closed on the HVR Awards and we have an in-depth spread on all the finalists and details you need to know about our event on October 26 on pages 16 and 17.
Voting has opened in three categories which will be decided by online vote. These are the Customer Service Person, Wholesaler/ Distributor and Trainee of the Year categories. Winners in five other categories have been chosen by five respected industry
figures with extensive knowledge and experience. The judges are: • Martyn Cooper, commercial manager FETA • Ross Anderson, director at ICOM Energy Association (ICOM) • Tom Garrigan, BSRIA test house manager • BESA membership director Wayne Terry • Stephen Gill, group chairman for CIBSE ASHRAE
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