Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic our planned event at Loughborough has now been moved online at the earlier start time of 4 pm. Joining details will be issued to registrants. On the back of rising global temperatures the HVAC-R market continues to grow with the integration of air conditioning in new buildings, and the electrification of energy for heating applications, which are expected to push up demand further in the future. Growing concerns over (climate change) the carbon impact of products and refrigerants and tightening energy efficiency legislation are fuelling the supply challenges that the market is already facing. The competitive landscape is pushing market players to seek most unusual joint venture partnerships as a means to drive business efficiency while increasing market share. Saziye will share her research into BSRIA's projections and direction of travel for the global HVAC-R markets.Can the market keep up with demand, and will this place restriction on the transition to zero-carbon targets for property in the lead up to 2050 and beyond.

Join the EI East Midlands branch for a talk on the hydrogen economy. The speaker believes that there are good prospects for hydrogen, but that there is unlikely to be the all-encompassing 'hydrogen economy'. This view is based on his experience of British Gas in the 1950s and 60s. In the late 1950s, the British Gas industry was dying. It was based on town gas, a mixture that contained 50% hydrogen. In the important domestic energy sector, electricity was becoming more competitive. The gas industry was saved by moving away from coal, and using steam reforming processes which produced town gas at high pressure from naphtha, essentially a low grade petrol. When North Sea gas came in, every burner in Britain had to be changed. The cost was then about £500 million, but this was hidden from consumers. Can this, will this, happen again?

We are honoured to have the new global president of ASHRAE Darryl K Boyce visit us to deliver his inaugural presidential speech here in the UK Midlands. Darryl will be joined by one of the most interesting, and perhaps least considered aspects of building services design - cyber security. Michael Wigington of J Dunton Associates will discuss how we prevent our controls systems from becoming a back door cyber infection path to client organisations.

Ashrae UK Midlands Chapter are proud to host our Student Competition and Conference. As well as our usual high quality student papers and awards ceremony we will also have two eminent speakers, Adam Taylor from WellAir and Martin Ronceray from BSRIA to present on Indoor Air Quality and Soft Landings respectively. See below and click the attachments for more details.

ASHRAE UK Chapters of London and South East and UK Midlands are pleased to hold our first joint event on the important topic of Indoor Air Quality. Joining us tonight for what should be a compelling evening are Distinguished Lecturer Chandra Sekhar from Singapore University, and Edward Murphy from Ollio. Chandra will be start on the topic of enhanced ventilation strategies for optimal indoor IAQ to be followed by Edward who will reprise his paper delivered to CIBSE Technical Symposium on IAQ sensors and the wellbeing agenda.