Educational institutions

A soon-to-be-launched mentoring scheme promises a unique opportunity for knowledge exchange between industry professionals at different stages in their careers.

A Tegut store employing CO₂ refrigeration, cabinet doors and LED lighting is the first supermarket to be recognised with an environmental Blue Angel award.

Physicists claim a breakthrough in explaining a rare property of an exotic magnetic material; potentially ease the path to magnetic refrigeration.

Emerson Climate Technologies will be discussing how modulating technologies are enabling enhanced comfort and improved efficiency in a free webinar.

The EU’s REAL Alternatives learning programme for engineers working with low GWP alternative refrigerants will launch on March 19 with a free webinar.

A new report calls for a wholesale change in the way engineering is promoted in UK schools. The report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers “Five Tribes: Personalizing Engineering Education” is calling on government, teachers, industry and science technology engineering and maths (STEM) organizations to take into account young people’s diverse values and attitudes to try and inspire them about engineering.

A hospital in Aydin, Turkey, is to serve as a test case to demonstrate that it is possible to reduce energy consumption by 50% and decrease greenhouse gas emissions with retrofitting solutions.

It has previously been difficult to cost-effectively measure the performance of refrigeration systems in operation. Now there is the ClimaCheck method.

12-13 of April, 2013, the seventh National Congress of the “Ecoholod” Republican Public Association (RAC) was held in Bishkek.