Training & Events
16th May 2025
Carrier Transicold enhances cold chain training in Africa
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.
11th May 2025
Northern Branch to hold breakfast briefing
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.
10th May 2025
Regional show debuts at Villa Park
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.
28th April 2025
Daikin UK trains over 6,000 engineers in 2024
UK: Daikin UK claims to have delivered free, face-to-face training to 6,132 installers in 2024.
27th April 2025
Registration open for Green Cooling Summit
GERMANY: Registration is now open for the Green Cooling Summit 2025, an online two-day conference focusing on sustainable cooling and heating in buildings.
14th April 2025
European Heat Pump Summit call for papers
GERMANY: The organiser of the biennial European Heat Pump Summit has announced a call for papers for the next event in October.
6th April 2025
European Conference returns to Milan
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.
1st April 2025
Ideal opens Scottish training facility
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.
1st April 2025
Cold Chain Hub returns to the NEC
UK: Cold Chain Hub, the UK’s leading event for the cold storage and distribution sector, returns to Birmingham’s NEC on 9 & 10 September.
24th March 2025
HVACR World to be held in Dubai
UAE: HVACR World is a new exhibition to be held this year at the Dubai World Trade Centre to showcase the opportunities in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA).
18th March 2025
BESA offers online health and safety test
UK: The BESA Academy has introduced a fully-online health, safety and environment test for building services personnel to meet SKILLcard requirements for safe site working.
15th March 2025
Qvantum empowers future energy leaders
SWEDEN: Heat pump manufacturer Qvantum has introduced a Young Energy Ambassadors’ programme to foster the next generation of energy leaders.
13th March 2025
Bitzer again hosts industrial fridge conference
GERMANY: Bitzer is again playing host to the Industrial Refrigeration Network Conference (IRN) focused on safe, future-proof and energy-efficient solutions based on “natural” refrigerants.
5th March 2025
Daikin offers STEAM Scholarship in Astros tie-up
USA: Daikin Comfort Technologies North America have announced a scholarship programme in alliance with US Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Houston Astros.
24th February 2025
Working with R290 webinar
UK: A free CIBSE-accredited CPD webinar explaining how R290 refrigerant is shaping the future of sustainable HVAC is being hosted by Swegon UK & Ireland this coming Thursday, 27 February.
20th February 2025
InstallerShow to repeat cooling focus
UK: The organiser of the InstallerShow has announced a repeat of its partnership with World Refrigeration Day and a greater focus on the cooling industry.
10th February 2025
Carrier expands apprenticeship programme
UK: Carrier is building on the launch of its academy in Bracknell last year, and the appointment of an apprenticeship programme lead, by recruiting at least 17 apprentices this year.
31st January 2025
Webinar celebrates women’s cool contributions
EUROPE: Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the EU’s CoolLIFE project is to host a webinar emphasising the contributions of women in the HVACR sector.
28th January 2025
Cold chain conference to explore market trends
DENMARK: The changes to trade policy landscapes and macro trends and their implications for Europe’s temperature-controlled logistics sector will be explored at a major conference in Denmark in March.
25th January 2025
Carrier India signs skills development deal
INDIA: Carrier India and Jamia Millia Islamia’s (JMI) University Polytechnic are collaborating to create a centre of excellence for HVAC skill development.
20th January 2025
Webinar explores new efficiency policies
ITALY: Carel is to host a free-to-register webinar on the subject of the revised European energy performance of buildings directive (EPBD) and the new eco-design regulation (ESPR).
19th January 2025
ASERCOM Convention looks to the future
BELGIUM: Policy, market insights and challenges are the themes of the Association of European Component Manufacturers’ (ASERCOM) annual convention to be held in Brussels on 24 January.
14th January 2025
Carrier commits to boosting workforce
USA: Carrier has committed to hiring 1,000 service technicians in the USA and providing additional training to over 100,000 Carrier and Carrier partner HVAC technicians within five years.
11th January 2025
Acessing low-carbon heat from mine water
UK: The UK government’s Mining Remediation Authority is to host a series of webinars next month to provide insight into accessing low-carbon heat from mine water.
9th January 2025
Industry support for Inverness training centre
UK: Panasonic, Samsung and Grant UK have supplied the very latest air-source heat pump systems to a new renewable energy training hub at UHI Inverness.
6th January 2025
HVAC+R show “co-locates” with UK Construction Week
UK: The HVAC+R Live show, previously promoted with dates in April, has now been rescheduled to take place alongside UK Construction Week London in May.
3rd January 2025
Advansor announces 2025 training programme
DENMARK: Danish CO2 refrigeration systems specialist Advansor has updated its CO2 training programme for 2025.