NürnbergMesse is launching an award scheme alongside the Chillventa exhibition in partnership with the publishing company Bauverlag.

Chillventa is the world's largest trade fair for the refrigeration industry with the air-conditioning, ventilation and heat pump sectors. This year’s show looks sey to be a success with record numbers of exhibitors expected. The show also provides an opportunity for experts from around the world to come together through: Chillventa Connecting Experts.

The awards will focus on the four categories of commercial refrigeration, large-scale refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pumps and will recognise special and exemplary expert team projects.

Chillventa award initiators, Christoph Brauneis, senior editor KKA, tab and jury member, and Daniela Heinkel, exhibition director said: 'We are very pleased that we will be awarding the Chillventa AWARD this year for the first time. There are not many sectors of industry that are as innovative and inventive as the refrigeration, air-conditioning, ventilation and heat pump community, and it is only right to highlight and pay tribute to this.

“At Chillventa, experts from around the world meet, develop projects together and set them on track. It was therefore an obvious opportunity to invite entries for a high-quality competition to evaluate the best, most exciting and most innovative projects in four categories and to present them with the Chillventa AWARD. Chillventa is an ideal platform for a prize of this quality.'

The Chillventa awards will honour teams of experts (planners, system builders, principals/operators) who, in an exemplary collaboration going beyond normal technical standards, have realised a project that excels in terms of functionality, energy consumption and technical innovations.

In evaluating the projects, the judges, in line with the Chillventa motto of ‘Connecting Experts’, will focus in particular on the interplay between the people involved in the project, from conceptual formulation, through planning and system construction to the operation of the system.

Projects submitted for the award must clear demonstrate and map the level of quality reached through cooperative planning. Other aspects, such as compliance with the planned budget and timetable, environmental safety requirements, certifications, etc. will also be taken into account by the judging panel.

The award scheme will consider any form of refrigeration, air-conditioning or heat pump system (new or refurbished that has been carried out in Europe). Projects submitted must not have been completed more than two years ago.

The judging panel is formed of: Christoph Brauneis, senior editor, KKA and tab; Prof. Dr Ing Michael Deichsel, Georg Simon Ohm Technical University, Nuremberg; Rolf Harig, Harig GmbH; Dr Rainer Jakobs, IZW (Heat Pump and Refrigeration Engineering Information Centre); Prof Dr Ing Ulrich Pfeiffenberger, Giessen-Friedberg University of Applied Sciences, Fachverband Gebäude-Klima [Building/Air-Conditioning Association]; and Bertold Brackemeier, manager, NürnbergMesse Public Relations.

The awards will be presented at Chillventa on 11 October 2016.

For more information visit www.chillventa.de