Training & Events

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.

BELGIUM: Students at schools in Belgium without the resources to purchase expensive equipment are learning about the installation of heat pumps using virtual reality. 

UK: LG Electronics has revamped its UK training academy in Weybridge to include R290 air-to-water heat pumps and Multi Vi systems alongside state of the art training equipment.

UK: A new hands-on training initiative to help refrigeration contractors and service technicians gain confidence in diagnosing and maintaining Bitzer compressors.

UK: The Institute of Refrigeration’s latest education guidance note covers the subject of coaching as a way for employers to support engineering and technician development.

USA/RWANDA: Carrier Transicold has delivered transport refrigeration units and connected cold chain solutions to support training courses and sustainable cold chain systems in East Africa.

UK: The Northern Branch of the Institute of Refrigeration has announced that its first Technical Breakfast briefing will be held next month at South Shields FC.

UK: A one-day regional refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump exhibition opens its doors this week at Birmingham's Villa Park, home of Aston Villa FC.

UK: Daikin UK claims to have delivered free, face-to-face training to 6,132 installers in 2024.

GERMANY: Registration is now open for the Green Cooling Summit 2025, an online two-day conference focusing on sustainable cooling and heating in buildings.

GERMANY: The organiser of the biennial European Heat Pump Summit has announced a call for papers for the next event in October.

ITALY: The biennial European Conference on heat pump and cooling technologies will return to the Politecnico di Milano in June for two days of intensive activity.

UK: Ideal Heating has opened a new, dedicated training centre near Edinburgh which, in addition to boiler courses, will also enable reskilling of installers to work with heat pumps.