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SPAIN: The modernisation of the cooling infrastructure at the Madrid HQ of sustainable infrastructure solutions company Acciona is said to have delivered a 70% reduction in energy consumption.

UK: The installation of Star Refrigeration’s low-charge ammonia Azanefreezer 2.0 at a food distribution hub in Daventry has delivered energy savings far exceeding initial projections.

UK: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) air conditioning systems have transformed comfort levels for customers and staff at a relaunched builders’ merchant/DIY store and retail centre in Devon.

UK: In its ongoing partnership with Chester Zoo, Mitsubishi Electric is now supplying air-source heat pumps for the zebra, ostrich, and roan antelope habitats at the zoo’s Heart of Africa zone.

UK: Ninety-five Artus Air hybrid fan coil units are being installed at British Land’s new London head office at 20 Triton Street, Regent’s Place.

The three Climaveneta EW-HT water-to-water heat pumps UK: The refurbishment of a landmark 70,000ft2 Surrey office block has seen gas-fired boilers and air-to-water cooling systems…

ITALY: Consistent ice quality for the bobsleigh and skeleton track at the recent Olympic Winter Games was provided by an innovative ammonia-based refrigeration system.

UK: Mitsubishi Electric has extended its partnership with Chester Zoo by providing renewable heating to 51 guest lodges at the zoo’s Heart of Africa zone.

UK: Ellis Training’s move into a former Methodist church, last year, has transformed the 19th-century building into a leading-edge HVACR training facility. 

HUNGARY: Haier VRF systems were chosen for a major upgrade of the heating and cooling requirements of the Budapest offices of Knorr Bremse Rail Systems.

GERMANY: Heat pump technology, such as Vaillant’s Energy Unit 2.0, is helping to drive the European energy transition in existing multi-family buildings. 

POLAND: A new refrigerant reclamation plant near Warsaw is using two processes to separate mixtures and reclaim nearly 100% of used refrigerants.

UK: Panasonic PACi NX low-temperature units are being employed to provide precise and consistent climate conditions at a vertical farm research facility in Suffolk. The…

FRANCE: Waste heat from the cooling system of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is supplying a local residential and commercial heating network.

UK: Consultant Arup has significantly reduced the carbon footprint at its London headquarters by replacing gas boilers and R134a chillers with air-source heat pumps.

NETHERLANDS: Trane heat pumps are combined with thermal energy storage (TES) systems in commercial office buildings located at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

GERMANY: A propane chiller has replaced an R404A refrigeration system at a fresh produce supplier's warehouses in central Germany, reducing operating costs and improving the overall carbon footprint.

ITALY: The city of Peschiera Borromeo, near Milan, is home to Italy’s first district heating and cooling plant powered by biogas produced from sewage sludge.

UK: Panasonic’s Jet Air Stream units are being employed to provide heating and cooling for a specialist surface preparation and coating company. 

UK: FSW UK partnered with Sandbach-based contractor Austin Broady Associates and Mitsubishi Electric to install sustainable HVAC upgrades at the Greater Manchester office campus, Exchange Quay.

GERMANY: The Campo Novo Business aparthotel in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, is said to be setting new standards in energy efficiency and sustainability for modern living with climate solutions from Viessmann.

UK: Aermec heating and cooling equipment is providing the ideal conditions for a new £38m construction and engineering centre in Luton.

SWITZERLAND/FRANCE: Swedish manufacturer SWEP has supplied over a hundred brazed-plate heat exchangers for critical cooling roles at the CERN particle physics laboratory.

UK: Happy Eggs, the UK's responsibly-sourced egg brand, has begun rolling out the first of 40 Sunswap Endurance zero-emission transport refrigeration units.

UK: Panasonic air-source heat pumps have replaced two outdated and inefficient chillers providing air conditioning to a 200-year-old court building in East London.

UK: A-Gas has successfully recovered 450kg of HFCs from 22 Daikin VRV rooftop units in just five hours.

UK: Carrier has supplied more than 1,000 Comfort Line fan coil units to Regent’s View, a landmark East London residential regeneration of the former Bethnal Green Gas Works.