Top names honoured at NACRA Awards
UK: Two of the industry’s top names were amongst the big winners at last night’s National Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Awards at the deceptively ornate Birmingham Town Hall.
Graeme Fox, who recently stepped down after four years as president of AREA, received the special ACR Champions Award presented to honour the memory of the late Phil Creaney, former editor of ACR Today magazine.
Joining him with two awards and a highly commended was refrigeration and air conditioning consultancy Steve Gill Associates. Steve Gill, who is making a habit of picking up awards for his efforts, added the award for Environmental Champion to his expected success at being named Top Consultant. An unprecedented hat-trick of awards was only prevented by air conditioning manufacturer Samsung who beat him into a highly commended position for Best Marketing Campaign.
In other awards, recently in the news Space Engineering took the title of Top Contractor, edging out Reigate-based Borahurst, winner of the same category at the ACR News Awards in February.
The full list of winners:
Best Retail Project
Carter Synergy for its work with Walgreens, Chicago
Best Commercial Project
Klima-Therm for its development of virtual power plants
Top Contractor
Space Engineering Services
Air Conditioning Product of the Year
Carrier Air Conditioning
Refrigeration Product of the Year
Arctic Circle
Best Marketing Campaign
Samsung
Environmental Champion
Steve Gill Associates
Best Training Provider
Business Edge
Wholesaler/Distributor of the Year
UR Refrigeration Wholesale
Top Consultant or Specifier
Steve Gill Associates
Phil Creaney’s ACR Champion
Graeme Fox
