Training & Events

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.

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.

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).

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.

SWEDEN: Heat pump manufacturer Qvantum has introduced a Young Energy Ambassadors’ programme to foster the next generation of energy leaders. 

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.

USA: Daikin Comfort Technologies North America have announced a scholarship programme in alliance with US Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Houston Astros.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

INDIA: Carrier India and Jamia Millia Islamia’s (JMI) University Polytechnic are collaborating to create a centre of excellence for HVAC skill development.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

DENMARK: Danish CO2 refrigeration systems specialist Advansor has updated its CO2 training programme for 2025.