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Tag: AI
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Appropriate technology and the future of HVAC
What if the future we need doesn’t mean adding AI to common household equipment, but does need us to get smarter with cooling technology and energy management? The Scenarios for Future Living: Emerging technology innovation and development report examines how the promise of technology is likely to serve us in the coming decades.
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Sonia Holzheimer: role change, and reflecting on the HVAC&R profession
AIRAH Associate Director, Sonia Holzheimer, M.AIRAH, has moved into a new role as Partner at Queensland-based multidisciplinary engineering consultancy, STP Consultants.
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Vertiv expands into Asia-Pacific
Critical infrastructure solutions provider Vertiv has opened a new manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia.
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Whitepaper unpacks food retail energy efficiency
Refrigeration accounts for a major share of energy use in supermarkets, making HVAC&R a prime candidate for optimisation, as a new white paper from CAREL explains.
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ASHRAE releases guidance for AI data centres
ASHRAE has collaborated with the US Government’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (USA) to develop the AI Data Centre Energy Performance Framework.
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China launches first wind-powered underwater data centre
China has addressed energy challenges in data centres by constructing a wind-powered underwater data centre 10km off the coast of Shanghai.
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CSIRO goes to the edge with CO2 cooling
Data centre developments often come under fire for their massive thirst, competing with communities, agriculture and nature for both groundwater and surface water supplies. CSIRO’s new data centre project in Queensland, however, is utilising advanced cooling solutions to conserve precious H2O.
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Carbon credit payoff for HVAC upgrades
A Japan-based climate tech start-up has invented a way to turn smart HVAC into a new income stream via tradeable carbon credits.
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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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QUT researchers use AI to optimise urban greening
Researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have developed an AI-powered tool for optimising the location and type of urban greenery, potentially cooling cities by up to 3.5°C.
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Huge attendance for 2026 ASHRAE Winter Conference
ASHRAE’s 2026 Winter Conference has concluded, with indoor environmental quality (IEQ), healthy buildings and the evolving role of HVAC&R professionals in focus.
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Schneider Electric to host data centre cooling event
Schneider Electric’s Innovation Day event will focus on ever-growing cooling needs for data centres in the AI era.
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Global experts unite at Building Simulation 2025
The 2025 Building Simulation Conference – co-hosted by IBPSA Australasia and AIRAH – brought the world’s brightest minds in the built environment to Brisbane for a week of vital, future-focused discussions.
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All you need to know about the Intelligent Building Workshop
AIRAH and CSIRO are co-hosting IBW25 in collaboration with CIBSE and Arup on Thursday, August 28 in Sydney.
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Disruption waiting to happen for BMS industry
According to IBM researcher Arun Vishwanath, disruption is coming to the building controls industry in the form of artificial intelligence and machine learning that could eventually enable self-driving buildings. Vishwanath was the keynote speaker at AIRAH’s inaugural Big Data and Analytics Forum in Sydney last week. The event saw 120 attendees – including analytics consultants, […]