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03 CMYK / .ai CMYK / .ai CMYK / .ai www.acrjournal.uk/heat-pumps Raising the standards inAirConditioningDistribution www.cdlweb.info Raising the standards inAirConditioningDistribution www.cdlweb.info Raising the standards inAirConditioning istri ti n www.cdlweb.info Raising the standards inAirConditioningDistribution w . i f APRIL/MAY 2023 www.acrjournal.uk/heat-pumps ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR INSTALLERS ISSUE 13 I S 2 JUNE/JULY 2021 I I I I Highpopularity for the thiseventmeans that theentry deadlinehasbeenbrought forward – enterby 16th July THE MIDLAND HOTEL MANCHESTER 20th Octo er 2021 2021 10th To book and enter NOW visit www.acrjournal.uk/information/national-acr-heat-pump-awards HPTCover.indd 1 19/05/2021 11:06 DATE FOR YOUR DIARY The Midland manchester 22nd JUNE 2023 2023 APRMAY23Cover.indd 1 5 3 3 719 Editor Juliet Loiselle MInstR Julietl@warnersgroup.co.uk Multimedia Sales Executive Victoria Liddington 01778 395029 victoria.liddington@warnersgroup.co.uk Editorial Design Ady Braddock Advertising Design Natalie Fraser Production Sue Ward 01778 392405 production@warnersgroup.co.uk Publisher Juliet Loiselle CompCIPHE/MInstR 01778 391067 julietl@warnersgroup.co.uk Published by: Warners Group Publications Plc The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs, PE10 9PH 01778 391000 01778 394748 www.warnersgroup.co.uk © Copyright 2023 PRINTED BY WARNERS 01778 395111 Deadline has passed By the time you read this, the deadline for entries into the very popular National ACR & Heat Pump Awards will have passed. The judges have another tough job ahead of them. Many new names, in conjunction with some very interesting projects have been put forward again this year. This event always sells-out, but don’t worry if you are unable to get a seat, we’ll provide full coverage of the winners within all the Heat Pumps Today media platforms. International Women’s Day was successfully celebrated in March and in keeping with this theme, we have focus on not just one, but two inspirational ladies from within the HP industry (page 26). The Carbon Trust talks about ‘What is Heat Pump Ready’, turn to page 11 for full detail on how it’s supporting 36 innovative projects. Heat Pumps Today has a regular focus on training and welcomes all training news and updates that we can share with you, our readers. This issue see’s the launch of a new section ‘Training News’ starting from page 20. Please send me details of your training news for future issues (space is limited). Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the FETA Lunch on the 20th of April. Juliet E D I T O R / C O N T E N T S CONTENTS 06 Industry News – keep up to date with the latest Heat Pump news 08 Changing Faces – Who’s moving where? 10 CIPHE - Tackling gender inequality in the plumbing and heating industry 11 Carbon Trust – £60 million programme funded by DECC and Net Zero Refrigerants 14 Heat pumps – with the move away from fossil fuel-based products, it’s time to re-consider all the fluids inside BESA Updates 16 Taskforce can unlock £1trn energy e¥ciency market Training 18 Heat pump thermal fluid: engineering, safety, environmental and cost considerations 20 Training News – up to date news on what’s available for installers/engineers Net Zero 24 How to meet the decarbonisation challenge Women in heat pumps 26 Two very successful women in the industry share their stories What's New? 30 latest updates for new products 2023 22nd JUNE THE MIDLAND MANCHESTER M60 2DS