The 2012 exhibition just wouldn’t be complete without celebrating industry excellence at the ARBS Awards. More than 400 people came together to celebrate the industry’s achievements and to see eight HVAC&R veterans inducted into the ARBS Hall of Fame.
Fantech’s Daniel Tan Teng Yeow won the 2012 ARBS Young Achiever Award for his outstanding work in design and impulse technology. Yeow has written a design guide that details how impulse technology works and has presented his research findings to the Standards Committee for AS1668.2 with the intention of updating a supplementary guide for the standard. Yeow has contributed to the testing, development and commercialisation of the JetVent range of fans and ComLink digital communications between fan units and controllers as well as a new range of silencers.
The outstanding service and maintenance provider award went to Hi Flow Industries.
Founded by 24-year-old Brett Saunders in 2005, the company now employs 50 full-time staff and was a finalist in the Telstra Best Medium Business Award category in 2011.
The ARBS product excellence award went to Fantech. The company’s impulse technology has revolutionised car park ventilation in Australia. Its fans incorporate brushless DC technology in the EC motor and a highly advanced backward curved centrifugal impeller. The result is improved energy efficiency and demand controllable car park ventilation.
The winner of the project excellence award was James L Williams, who is responsible for the supply and installation of mechanical services for the Pixel building on the old Carlton Brewery site in Sydney, which has been awarded the highest ever Green Star rating in Australia. It is carbon neutral, water balanced, has a platinum core under the LEED rating system, a gas-fired absorption chiller and 100 per cent fresh air.
Bitzer Australia and Strathbrook Industry Services won the refrigeration project excellence award for providing a world-class energy efficient refrigerated space solution for F. Mayer Imports. It uses a holistic combination of well-insulated walls, rapid roller doors to prevent infiltration, low GWP refrigerants, efficient compressor technology, and glycol defrosting evaporators.
The winner of the outstanding education training award was the Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors Association (AMCA) for its course on managing for profit. Established in 1997, the 13-week course provides in-depth training in project management for the air conditioning, engineering and mechanical services industries.