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Category: Events and conferences
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True Zero Carbon Challenge 2026 Awards Night
The True Zero Carbon Challenge 2026 Awards Night is being held on Friday, August 21, to celebrate the projects and people helping shape the future of low-carbon residential housing in Australia.
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Cool intelligence for flammable refrigerants – celebrating WRD
To mark World Refrigeration Day on June 26, Australian HVAC&R industry bodies are holding a free webinar to share information about flammable refrigerants.
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REB26: Opportunities in a carbon-constrained built environment
Increasingly, achieving net zero in Australia’s built environment is framed as a retrofit challenge. And although the scale of that challenge is large, the inaugural Reshaping Existing Buildings Conference focused on the opportunities, exploring solutions and sharing real-world success stories that reclaim the value in our assets.
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The best of Good Design
The 2025 Good Design Award winners have been announced, with more than 1,100 new products and designs selected and awarded from 49 countries.
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See cool intelligence in action at Woolworths
As part of World Refrigeration Day celebrations on June 26, 2026, Woolworths is holding behind the scenes tours.
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2026 EEC Award winners
The 2026 Energy Efficiency Council (EEC) Awards winners were announced at a gala dinner during the EEC National Conference (May 27–28 in Sydney).
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Circular thinking takes centre stage at REB26
Professor Usha Iyer-Raniga, keynote speaker at the upcoming Reshaping Existing Buildings Conference, offers a preview of her presentation and shares her thoughts on improving circularity in Australia.
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Retrofit and EnerPHit Month
The Australian Passivhaus Association (APA) is running a national “Retrofit and EnerPHit Month” campaign until mid-June, with a range of events on the agenda.
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ARBS Awards put HVAC&R achievements centre stage
People, projects and products were given their moment of glory at the 2026 ARBS Industry Excellence Awards, held in Melbourne on May 6, 2026.
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HVAC&R turns policy into practice
At ARBS 2026, speakers from across the globe are shining a light on the essential nature of HVAC&R, and its pivotal role in decarbonising the built environment, enabling social progress and protecting human health.
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Tips for your ARBS adventure
Will we see you at ARBS 2026? The HVAC&R industry exhibition and program of seminars kicks off at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC) from Tuesday, May 5–Thursday, May 7.
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Intelligent theme for World Refrigeration Day 2026
World Refrigeration Day is an opportunity to celebrate the skills, inventiveness and achievements of HVAC&R – and in 2026, the real power behind the profession is in the spotlight.
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Pitch in – IBF26 call for abstracts
After the success of the inaugural Intelligent Buildings Workshop in 2025, IBF26 is now calling for expertise and insight from across the property, engineering, technology and analytics sectors.
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Are you up-to-date on flammables?
Industry representatives are hosting a panel session during ARBS 2026 on Thursday, May 7, to discuss the newly revised Flammable Refrigerants Safety Guide.
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TACA Seminar 2026
The Testing and Commissioning Association (TACA) is hosting its annual seminar on Friday, October 9, 2026.
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Refrigerants in a climate positive built environment
The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) is hosting a workshop in partnership with AIRAH called “Refrigerants in a Climate Positive Built Environment” on Thursday, May 7.
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Sustainable House Day 2026
Sustainable House Day 2026 is taking place across Australia on Sunday, May 17. It’s a chance to look behind the front doors of renovations, retrofits and new builds that showcase best practices for energy efficiency, health, comfort and climate adaptation.
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Heating and cooling in a climate-neutral economy
Two international events are set to make waves in the HVAC&R industry in April and May: the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) is hosting Cooling Without Warming: Energy‑Efficient ACs and Heat Pumps in Paris, France on April 28; and the International Energy Agency (IEA) is holding the Heat Pump Conference from May 26–29 in Vienna, Austria.
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Dial in for a deep dive on decarbonising data centres
MECLA and the Decarbonising Building Industry (DBI) initiative are presenting a free webinar on tackling embodied carbon in data centres.
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ASHRAE calls for abstracts for 2027 Winter Conference
ASHRAE is calling for abstracts for its 2027 Winter Conference, being held in Chicago, Illinois, from January 23–27, 2027.