Training & Events

CZECHIA/ITALY: Panasonic has extended its training capabilities with new facilities in the Czech Republic and Italy.

UK: The Institute of Refrigeration is to host a free webinar exploring the UK government’s recently announced consultation on reforming the HFC phasedown under the GB F-gas regulation.

UK: Lord William Haughey OBE, Chair of City Facilities Management Ltd officially opened the new Glasgow Beijer Ref training facility last week.

GERMANY: The German-government-supported agency GIZ Proklima is hosting a webinar on “green” heating and cooling on November 26.

UK: Lord William Haughey, chair of City Facilities Management, is to officially open Beijer Ref's third training academy, in Glasgow, on 6 November.

BELGIUM: The European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) is promising a wide range of activities to celebrate this year’s Heat Pump Day on October 21.

USA: ASHRAE has published its full technical programme for its 2026 Winter Conference in Las Vegas.

BURKINA FASO: U-3ARC, the African refrigeration and air conditioning association, is holding its first International Conference for the Popularisation of Refrigeration in Africa in Ouagadougou next month.

UK: Samsung Climate Solutions is aiming to train around 1,000 installers over the next 12 months at its newest training facility in Chertsey, Surrey.

GERMANY: Refrigeration technology will have a large presence at next year’s retail EuroShop exhibition in Düsseldorf from 22 to 26 February next year.

UK: Tickets are now available for the annual Institute of Refrigeration dinner, which returns to the Hilton London Bankside hotel on 12 February 2026.

UK: A new training studio to help inspire the next generation of air conditioning engineers, plumbers, and medical gas technicians has been announced by copper tube supplier Lawton Tubes.

USA: ASHRAE has opened the call for abstracts for its 2026 Annual Conference, which will take place from June 27 to July 1, 2026, in Austin, Texas.

UK: The Minister for Energy Consumers, Miatta Fahnbulleh, will give a keynote address at the Heat Pump Association’s (HPA) first conference in November.

GERMANY: Participants in this year’s European Heat Pump Summit in Nuremberg are promised two days of high-calibre professional expertise.

UK: The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched the first official training course supporting the UK government’s Heat Network Technical Assurance Scheme (HNTAS). 

UK: Apprenticeship provider Total People has opened a new training facility in Wythenshawe to support engineering skills growth in Greater Manchester and Cheshire. 

UK: Daikin UK is to embark on a nationwide series of regional events for commercial heating and cooling installers and consultants.

UK: Carrier Transicold has introduced a dedicated training programme that offers formal accreditation for engineers working on its fully electric product line.

UK: Green Point, Bitzer UK's compressor remanufacturing and specialist service arm, has provided two Bitzer reciprocating compressors to Beijer Ref’s UK training academy in Wetherby.

UK: Daikin UK is set to deliver curriculum-linked climate education into Greater Manchester schools in a new partnership with climate education specialist Generation C.

UK: Luke Haile, silver medal winner in refrigeration and air conditioning at WorldSkills 2024, is interviewed in the first of a new series of podcasts by Climalife UK.

UK: A detailed programme has been released for an international conference in Manchester in August on how RACHP design must adapt to the climate change challenge.

UK: The Heat Pump Association (HPA) is set to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its first annual conference in London in November.

UK: The Institute of Refrigeration is to host a webinar update on the Transport Industrial and Commercial Refrigeration (TICR) project to help end users understand and reduce emissions.

UK: West Lothian College has joined forces with Mitsubishi Electric in a partnership aimed at tackling a shortage of workers trained to install heat pumps.

IRELAND: The Institute of Refrigeration Ireland (IRI) is to host a series of lunchtime webinars on the proposed revision to the EN378 standard.