Solar water heating systems are becoming popular in the sun-drenched regions of Southern Europe. Heating domestic hot water is a good opportunity to combine ecology and efficiency, for example at tourist locations such as camp grounds. A tourism c ...

The construction industry’s most comprehensive online firestop inspection training and education program has been developed by the International Firestop Council (IFC) for code officials, inspectors and all building trades professionals associated ...

For years, copper tubes with aluminium fins have been the typical choice for condensing coils for HVAC&R equipment. Due to soaring copper prices, however, manufacturers have recently begun looking at adopting aluminium tubes as a way to reduce ...

Microchannel coils have been used in the automotive industry for more than 20 years, but the technology has been applied to the HVAC&R industry only in recent years. Microchannel condenser coils use an all-aluminium brazed fin construction. Th ...

In Japan, automotive component manufacturers all adopted aluminium heat exchangers before manufacturers in the HVAC&R industry. But with the sustained escalation of copper prices, air conditioner manufacturers have begun ramping up development ...

While the primary purpose of developing all-aluminium heat exchangers is to attain cost reductions, since the cost advantage of the material depends on the market price of copper, it is difficult to ensure an advantage in the total manufacturing c ...

Johnson Controls, a global multi-industrial company, announced an agreement with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to acquire its Air Distribution Technologies business, one of the strongest and largest independent providers of air distribut ...