Three members of the Winnipeg Chapter of the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) have earned the Certificate Member Specialist (CMS) designation.
The Waterloo Region District School Board, in association with the Waterloo-Wellington Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Contractors (HRAC), officially opened Ontario's first HVAC lab at Elmira District Secondary School.
Warren Heeley, president of the Heating, Refrigeration, Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI), sent a letter to British Columbia's minister of finance to urge the implementation of a provincial tax exemption for Energy Star®-rated residential heating and air conditioning equipment.
The Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) annual statistics forecast for 2005 projects that Canadian commercial A/C shipments will increase by 1 percent, while residential A/C will decrease by 3 percent and residential furnace shipments will decrease by 4 percent.
The Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) and the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating (CIPH) have agreed to produce a joint CMX/CIPHEX trade show in spring 2006.
NAIMA Canada, a trade association for manufacturers of fiberglass, rock wool, and slag wool insulation, is now operating. NAIMA Canada will deal with the localized issues and market drivers unique to Canada.
The Residential Air Conditioning Trade will be a subset of the existing Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Trade (Reg. 1076) once it is officially introduced. A group now is working on developing an exam, which is expected to be in place by January 2005.
Nancy McKeraghan was appointed chair of the Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Contractors of Canada (HRAC) at the association's annual general meeting, held August 20, 2004, in Kelowna, British Columbia. McKeraghan is the first woman to be appointed chair of HRAC.
At Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, chiller plant improvement dollars were immediately available for only part of the necessary improvements. So priorities had to be established within a context that would allow continuous improvements in future years.
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