The Building Controls Industry Association (BCIA) has launched a summer competition that encourages young people to devise an idea that could help reduce the energy consumption of their schools.... 

The Technology Enabled Maintenance Association (TEMA) is partnering with the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) to help accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies by the building maintenance sector.... 

Ziehl-Abegg is investing €16 million in the expansion of its production buildings at its Kupferzell site in Germany to prepare for a demand for high quality electric motors and fans in the future.... 

As the hospitality sector opens for business ventilation experts have released new guidance on steps businesses need to take to ensure systems are COVID-19 secure.

The guidance, issued by trade association BEAMA, stresses the need for effective ventilation alongside social distancing measures inside UK pubs and restaurants.

It provides key recommendations such as optimal settings for mechanical ventilation systems, effective toilet ventilation, centralised systems, ventilation maintenance and ventilating without a mechanical system. 

A Government announcement of a tariff extension to the Non Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) has brought market confusion and threatened the financial support for thousands of shovel ready low carbon schemes, Kensa Group has claimed.... 

ISH China & CIHE and ISH Shanghai & CIHE have been cancelled this year and will now take place in 2021.... 

Newly elected Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) president Neil Brackenridge has called for contractors to harness the “unity of purpose” displayed during the pandemic to create a better future.... 

David Millar has joined Gilberts Blackpool as area sales manager (Scotland & NE).... 

Hoval engineer Phil James got more than he bargained for when he went to commission two Hoval UltraOil boilers at an energy centre serving a radar station on St Kilda – and what should have been a two-day journey took over a week.... 

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has put its weight behind a three-stage plan to ensure construction can play a major role in the UK’s economic recovery.... 

Head of marketing and technical for Rehau Building Solutions, Steve Richmond, has highlighted a pressing need for project specifiers and developers to consider low-carbon heating systems.... 

Supplier of refrigerants to the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industries, A-Gas has been named Employer of the Year in the Amazon Scale-Up Awards 2020.... 

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is inviting companies, individuals and relevant organisations to join a major new initiative tasked with extending the current skills strategy for the building services sector.... 

Apprentices in Scotland have six new routes to specialist qualifications thanks to the work of the building engineering sector’s leading skills organisation.... 

Vent-Axia's head of marketing Jenny Smith has recommended that evaluating ventilation systems is the first step pubs should take before reopening as laid out in the Government’s new guidance.... 

Global water technology company Xylem Water Solutions has invested in an OEM European Centre of Excellence (CoE), based from its UK facility in Axminster.... 

Companies and individuals from across the heating and ventilating sector now have until Friday, July 24 to put themselves in the running to win a prestigious accolade at the 2020 HVR Awards.... 

JTL, the national training provider for electrical and heating and plumbing apprenticeships, has implemented a number of measures to ensure the health and well-being of its staff and learners as they start returning back to its centres and offices ... 

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) and its widely used facilities management solution SFG20 have become affiliates of the UK BIM Alliance.

The aim is to support the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) across the building engineering sector to speed up the digital transformation of the industry, improve its productivity and project delivery processes.

The news comes in the wake of research showing that 66% of firms in construction related fields accelerated their use of digital working during the COVID-19 lockdown. 

After careful consideration, ACR News’ publisher Datateam Business Media has made the difficult decision to not host a live event for the ACR News Awards in 2020....