Training & Events
10th July 2025
Climalife chills with the experts
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.
6th July 2025
Adapting RACHP design to climate change
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.
21st June 2025
HPA celebrates 20 years with first conference
UK: The Heat Pump Association (HPA) is set to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its first annual conference in London in November.
11th June 2025
Update on TICR emissions reduction project
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.
9th June 2025
Partnership will tackle heat pump installer shortage
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.
9th June 2025
IRI webinars on EN378 revision proposals
IRELAND: The Institute of Refrigeration Ireland (IRI) is to host a series of lunchtime webinars on the proposed revision to the EN378 standard.
8th June 2025
Virtual reality as an aid to heat pump training
BELGIUM: Students at schools in Belgium without the resources to purchase expensive equipment are learning about the installation of heat pumps using virtual reality.
4th June 2025
LG upgrades UK training facility in global push
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.
4th June 2025
Bitzer offers compressor repair training
UK: A new hands-on training initiative to help refrigeration contractors and service technicians gain confidence in diagnosing and maintaining Bitzer compressors.
24th May 2025
IOR provides coaching guidance
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.
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.