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Well this happened!!

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the AIRAH Awards night (Travelling OS) but a college told me I’m the inaugural winner of the “Industry Transformation Award”.
Very unexpected, very appreciated!
Thanks AIRAH

Ryde Public School has recently been completed utilising a monodraught HVR zero XC+ air conditioing system paired with DAIKIN heat pump chillers.

A very interesting project not only in designing a solution using a new innovative product but also embracing timber construction, MMoC, modular design, and assembly and disassembly requirements.

https://airconsystems.com.au/products/other-products/

School Infrastructure NSW video flythrough https://youtu.be/W_VE1VsQH2c?si=0BUgFJ77xxeof6Jw

Ryde Secondary College upgrade

Paul Stoller on LinkedIn: #netzerocarbon So proud of Atelier Ten's work on the Australian Opal Centre, now published in Ecolibrium! And so thankful for the opportunity to work with an amazing project…

Thank you to ARBS Exhibition for awarding our Professional Diploma in Building Services – HVAC&R with the ARBS Outstanding Industry Education/Training Award at the 2020!

Thank you, as well, to everyone involved in the PDBS program, the industry for its support, and the 300+ students who have undertaken the training. We would also like to extend a congratulations to the other finalists in the category for playing an important role in upgrading the skills and training of our industry's practitioners. Thank you!

For more on the Professional Diploma in Building Services – HVAC&R, please visit http://www.airah.org.au/pdbs

We were pleased to provide Mechanical, Electrical, Fire and Hydraulic Design services for this project.

Double Bay’s Matteo Puts on a Suit and Heads Into the City They've looked to the great restaurants of Rome and Milan for inspiration.

Some work I have been doing with AIRAH on a Graduate training program, published in the November edition of Ecolibrium

Every now and then we see and interesting adaptation of existing technology that could revolutionise an industry. Getting more power out of PV's in current form is essential, not only to get more power but to overcome the embedded energy of construction and this spinning solar panel could be heading in the right direction.

What I like about this product is that as PV's and associated technology gets better so will this product as it encompasses existing technology and uses it in a unique way.

The aesthetics are interesting and I think there will still be a place for lower efficiency products that wrap surfaces but well done V3solar. I hope to see product on the market in the not to distant future.

http://v3solar.com/technology/video/Moving away from flat panel

http://v3solar.com/technology/video/Moving

I saw this advertised recently "Hot Wheels Wall Tracks" and thought wow Innovation at its best. A simple and elegant adaptation of their existing product.

So how do we use the walls better for HVAC?? smaller plantrooms?? Capillary cooling??

http://shop.mattel.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11695138

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For the large stock of older commercial buildings not corporately owned the availability of finance has always been an issue when considering refurbishment let a lone environmental upgrades.

Hopefully the introduction of "Environmental upgrade Agreements" and finance guide by The Fifth Estate will go a long way to facilitating future investments and upgrades.

Check out the publication for yourself at

http://issuu.com/thefifthestateebook/docs/tfe_ebook_final?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

EUAs - Environmental Upgrade Agreements Your guide to Australias finance innovation for building retrofits

I was interested to read about Mayekawa’s (http://www.mayekawa.com.au/products/pascal-air/ ) use of compressed air for cooling in Ecolibriums September issue (p62).

I recall experimenting with expanded compressed air to provide cooling in my uni days and have always wondered if it could be efficiently and commercially applied. Mayekawa is of course using air in a closed system to achieve very low space temperatures (-100 deg C). Perhaps it is the low temperature application that makes it an efficient system.

My thoughts were to distribute compressed air at a rate equivalent to the minimum outside air requirements and then expand it through microturbines located per floor or even per desk in order to cool it. Heat from a compressor after cooler could be used to generate chiller water through an absorption chiller to supply supplementary passive cooling such as chilled beams and electrical energy generated from the microturbines could be collected and fed back to the compressor improving efficiency.

Of course there would be lots of issues to address including noise but imagine the flexibility and space saving of a ductless AC system.

On another thought I wonder if they could tune down their Pascal-air system to compete with a refrigeration chiller??
Perhaps one day I’ll get a chance to look at the efficiency and economics of these applications.

As for innovative approaches congratulations Mayekawa and hopefully our industry will embrace such existing and future alternatives.

Pascal Air | Mayekawa Australia & New Zealand The air we breathe is used as the ‘refrigerant’ in this case, using a unique internal compressor-expander turbine, Pascal Air produces cold air which is simply ducted to the refrigeration space.