Past Issues 

  2020

• Where there's smoke...
• Foreign aid
• Skills Workshop: Brazing and welding – Oxyacetylene plant

• An ARBSolute must
• Best-paid trade
• Skills Workshop: Corrosion and asset protection  

• The big freeze
• 2020 vision
• Skills Workshop: Water-cooled condensers and cooling towers             

  2019

• The maintenance conversation
• The fridgie Olympics
• Skills Workshop: Maintenance strategies

• Refrigerate. Reclaim. Recycle. Repeat.
• Thrills and chills
• Skills Workshop: Update on new refrigerants designations and safety classifications             

• Fridgies in the forces
• After the storm
• Skills Workshop: Controls fundamentals

• A new reality
• Digital diagnosis
• Skills Workshop: Custom coil design and specification

• New tricks
• Snakes on a drain
• Skills Workshop: Managing noise in ductwork systems

• Hot prospect
• Elevating our education
• Skills Workshop: Humidifying and dehumidifying 

• Cracking the code
• Coming clean
• Skills Workshop: HVAC hygiene – System inspection and assessment

• Heavy duties
• Playing with fire
• Skills Workshop: Flammable lower toxicity refrigerants

• Missing piece of the puzzle
• Fish tales
• Skills Workshop: Air filtration theory and fundamentals

• Heroes in red
• A cool career
• Skills Workshop: Controlling condensation in mechanical services 

  2018

• The tech trap
• Cooling Kelly country
• Skills Workshop: Calibration and use of instruments 

• Desert showdown!
• Fridgies around the world
• Skills Workshop: Understanding residential AC efficiency features 

• Deep freeze on the high seas
• The tough conversation
• Skills Workshop: Sizing refrigerant suction lines

• A growing concern
• Family affair
• Skills Workshop: Duct design procedure

• Cool chicks
• Watch your step!
• Skills Workshop: Fan performance

• Locked up
• Licensed to chill 
• Skills Workshop: Commisssioning steps for hydronic systems 

• Sweet job!
• Future focus
• Skills Workshop: Silver brazing

• Balancing Act
• Seven reasons not to miss ARBS
• Skills Workshop: Refrigeration safety and environmental requirements (Standards AS/NZ 5149)

• True Brew
• Beating the heat
• Skills Workshop: Testing for electrical faults in refrigeration systems

• New Year's evolution
• Where to flare
• Skills Workshop: Summer season contingency planning 

  2017

• Controls – from A to Z
• 11 ways to be a better fridgie
• Skills Workshop: Reciprocating (Type 1) compressors

• Pump it up
• Why can't we be friends?
• Skills Workshop: Managing risks to health and safety

• The roll-out continues
• Levelling the playing field
• Skills Workshop: Variable head-pressure control and variable inter-stage pressure control

• Harnessing hydrocarbon 
• Image is everything
• Skills Workshop: 104 Electrode vs resistive steam humidifiers

• Rebuilding Christchurch
• Duct troubles
• Skills Workshop: Managing condensate for boilers

• A foot in the door
• Chiller Queen
• Skills Workshop: Refrigerating systems and heat pumps

• Road tripping
• Box office success
• Skills Workshop: Update on new refrigerants designations and safety classifications

• In the loop
• Crackin' the ton
• Skills Workshop: Air filters - considerations in maintaining air quality and energy efficiency

• Coming soon: HFC phase-down
• Retro retrofit
• Skills Workshop: An overview of water-cooled (type 2) condensers

• 20 years on
• Skills Workshop: Welding safety basics
• Filtering the cost

  2016

• The main event
• Skills Workshop: Refrigerant leaks – causes, cures and prevention
• Below ground, above par

• Mind the gap
• Skills Workshop: HVAC&R pressure-control settings and valves 
• Pressure on evaporative condensers

• A 'shroom of their own
  
• Skills Workshop: Developing a gas measurement and monitoring plan
  
• Pacific perspective

• Silent and deadly
  
• The new gold rush
  
• Skills Workshop: Developing a gas measurement and monitoring plan

• When the worst happens
• Skills Workshop: HVAC&R optimisation – variable head-pressure control for water-cooled condensers  
• Our best on show 
• Fresh-faced fridgie's first-place finish

• A day in the life of
• Skills Workshop: HVAC&R optimisation - Demand control ventilation strategies
• The air in there

• The market mover
• Cut the noise!
• Skills Workshop: Fire Safety - Kitchen hood exhaust systems

• The trouble with cash
• Skills Workshop: Fire safety - kitchen hood exhaust systems
• Bathroom ventilation 101

• WA's mid-west medics
• Skills Workshop: Fire safety - kitchen hood exhaust systems
• ARBS preview

• Balwyn calling
• Skills Workshop: HVAC&R optimisation - Temperature reset
• New year outlook

  2015

• Heavyweight battle: Analogue vs digital gauges
• Hot box or heritage hero?
• Skills Workshop: HVAC&R optimisation - Duct static pressure reset

• Taking the heat
• Isolated energy
• Skills Workshop: HVAC&R optimisation - Ventilation and air flow part 2

• All about ducts
• New order
• Skills Workshop: HVAC&R optimisation - Ventilation and air flow

• Grand theft auto
• An open-and-shut case
• Skills Workshop: Space temperature set point and controls bands

• Heavyweight battle
• Hot box or heritage hero?
• Skills Workshop: Duct static pressure reset

• Thinking outside the box
• Staking a reclaim
• Because we're appy
• Skills Workshop: R22 phase-out guide - Part 1

• Back to school
• Sharpen your tools
• Skills Workshop: Introduction to indoor air quality

• The Wild West
• Forks in the road
• Skills Workshop: Maintenance strategies: Part 2

• Tasmania's big cheese
• The legend of Boggy Creek
• Skills Workshop: Maintenance Strategies:
  Part 1

• Eye for detail
• Open house
• Skills Workshop: HVAC hygiene

  2014

• Efficiency is no mirage
• Square savings
• Skills Workshop: Residential AC noise issues: Part 2

• House rules
• Proper prior preparation
• Skills Workshop: Residential AC noise issues

• Out with the old
• The law of the land
• Skills Workshop: Refrigerant recovery

• Marine HVAC: From fore to aft
• Supermarket of the future, now
• Skills workshop: Flammable refrigerants - Operation and maintenance

• ARBS Exhibition expedition
• The height of safety
• Skills workshop: Ammonia systems: Testing, charging and safety

• Tapping the ground source
• Just the facts about flammables
• Skills workshop: Water system balancing: Part 2

• The residential dirty dozen
• All systems go
• Managing the millennials
• Skills workshop: Water system balancing

• R22: The long goodbye
• Clear cut
• Skills workshop: Boiler efficiency

• OId building, new boilers
• ARBS 2014
• Skills workshop: Fans: Operation and maintenance: Part two

• Wine cooler
• New year outlook
• Skills workshop: Fans: Operation and maintenance: Part one

  2013

• The lowdown on R32
• Industry GEMS
• Skills workshop: Installation and commissioning centrifugal pumps: Part two

• Keeping it cold
• Fan energy performance
• Skills workshop: Installation and commissioning centrifugal pumps: Part one

• Something from nothing
• State of origin
• Skills workshop: Cool room efficiency for technical service providers

• Sweet success
• Flammables get real
• Skills workshop: Maintenance process

• Home made: Australian manufacturing
• Around the TAFEs - Part three, SA and WA
• Skills workshop: Chiller plant technology - Part three

• From the ashes
• Around the TAFEs - Part two
• Skills workshops: Chiller plant technology - Part two

• Cold rooms 101
• Around the TAFEs - Queensland and NSW
• Skills workshop: Chiller plant technology - Part one

• The new age of dairy
• An energy-netural low-rise
• Skills workshop: Centrifugal pump selection part two

• Refrigeration kicks goals
• AS1668.2 is finally resolved
• Skills workshop: Centrifugal pump selection part one

• Reef-urbishment
• The low-down on R407F
• Skills workshop: Opportunities in a low-emission future

  2012

• Shearing shed blues
• Putting the squeeze on R-values
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Managing the financial and associated risks of the refrigerant levy
• Editorial: You gotta be on the mound to throw a fastball

• Training on the supply side
• XXXX gives the nod to ammonia
• Make the connection
• Skills workshop: Energy-saving strategies for existing systems

• Carbon tax talk
• What's the cost of a leak?
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Safety considerations when using flammable refrigerants

• Beware counterfeit R134a
• Australian Standards revisited
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Refrigerant bank – Part Two: Protecting it

• Core issue
• In tip top shape
• Condensing boilers: Operation, benefits and myths
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Refrigerant bank – Part one: Defining it

• The world came to Melbourne
• Taxing times for refrigerants
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Maintenance for sustainability - Part two

• Back to basics: chilled water plants
• ARBS: It’s on
• The plant that time forgot
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Maintenance for sustainability - Part one

• State of the nation: manufacturing
• What’s on offer at ARBS 2012?
• National licensing update
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop:Guidelines for gas cylinder safety - Part 2 

• From paddock to plate freezer
• Make carbon the only price you’ll pay
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Guidelines for gas cylinder safety

• Electric evolution
• Putting the AC to the test
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Residential evaporative air cooling systems

  2011

• Australian Standards revised
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Condensation in Buildings - Part 2

• Retrofits reveal asbestos dangers
• Coming in from the cold
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Condensation in Buildings.

• A ‘hands on’ approach to HVAC
• The Fire Chief
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Ammonia safety Part 2 - Developing emergency plans, procedures for maintenance and personal protective equipment

• On shaky ground
• Up and away: refrigerant prices soar
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Ammonia safety requirements and hazard identification

• Putting the H in HVAC
• A weighty issue
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Building management and control systems (BMCS) - Part 3

• Playing it cool on the Sunshine Coast
• Japanese aftershock felt far and wide
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Building management and control systems (BMCS) - Part 2

• Carbon monoxide: A silent killer
• Fire and rain put focus on evaporative
• HVAC&R Skills Workshop: An introduction to Building Management and Control Systems - Part 1

• Administering the codes
• Noone immune to cybercrime
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: An introduction to cooling towers

• When bigger isn't better
• National Construction Code looms
• Training tips (Ladders, steps and stairs)
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: The essentials of chilled beams - Part 3

• Around the TAFEs – Part III
• The air up there
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: The essentials of chilled beams – Part 2

  2010

• Around the TAFEs – Part II
• All you ever wanted to know about HVAC&R strategies, but were afraid to ask!
• A Christmas nightmare
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: The essentials of chilled beams – Part 1

• Hatching innovation on the Huon
• Around the TAFEs
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Solar cooling

• Retrofitting a goliath of the sea
• Apps for work – really!
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: An introduction to commercial and industrial refrigeration systems

• Fresh is berry best
• From the ashes
• HVAC&R Skills Workshop: Scheduled maintenance for HVAC&R equipment

• State of the HVAC&R nation
• The future of housing opens its doors
• HVAC&R Skills Workshop: Backflow prevention

• ARBS 2010 countdown
• Australia's refrigeration capital?
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Installation of HVAC access openings and access for maintenance
• From ductwork to driver

• Lowering the ceiling on heat loads
• Dial. Drive. Bloody idiot.
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Humidification

• Solar air heaters: Simple, sustainable savings
• What to expect from the BCA 2010 
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Noise considerations for residential air conditioning

• A tall order - Cooling Dubai's Burj Khalifa
• National licensing: where to now?
• HVAC&R Nation Skills Workshop: Heat load calculation

• The departure of HCFC refrigerants
• MEPS 2010
• Thermographic imaging inspections: A non-destructive maintenance option

  2009

• Natural refrigerants
• Roof vapour barriers
• Skills Workshop: Piping system design considerations Part 3

• Skating on Olympic ice
• Beware the greenwash
• Louvre selection
• Skills Workshop: Piping system design considerations Part 2

• When star gazing, seeing is believing
• Worshipping the sun
• The mechanic of Birdsville
• Skills Workswhop: Piping system design considerations 

• Hot off the press
• Managing defrost for better efficiency
• Skills Workshop: Duct design for optimal fan operation

• How wind is powering cold storage
• Aging ducted heating systems in need of attention
• Skills workshop: flexible ductwork installation

• When it's too hot in the kitchen
• State of the HVAC&R Nation
• Skills workshop: Basics of duct design

• Misting – simply cooling
• Chillers 101
• Skills workshop: Essential services maintenance

• Shooting the breeze
• Queensland to ban inefficient air conditioners
• Skills workshop (Essential Services Maintenance)

• AC: BC
• States provide home energy incentive
• Training tips: Bathroom Ventilation
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Maintenance of essential fire safety systems)

• Skating on a natural alternative
• Club bowls up geothermal solution
• Refrigeration piping selection - get it right
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Introduction to cavitation and Net Positive Suction Head)

  2008

• IGA greens its aisles
• No emissions? No worries
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Speed variation on centrifugal pumps - Part 2)

• A kool idea
• The quiet American
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Speed variation on centrifugal pumps - Part 1)

• Thermal energy storage
• Green is the new blue
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Centrifugal pumps - Part 1- pump selection)

• A solar sunset
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Insulation Part 3)
• First refrigerant trading authorisation cancelled

• The trouble with Section J
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Insulation Part 2)
• Australian automotive air
• Evolution of automotive heating

• Riding in style
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Insulation Part 1)
• Skillaroos set to take on world's best

• A town called Crown
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Refrigerant handling regulations Part 3)
• Top ten worst practices - cooling towers: a contractor's response

• How to chill a shark
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Refrigerant handling regulations Part 2)
• Top ten worst practices - cooling towers

• A-Z of sustainable building
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Refrigerant handling regulations Part 1)

• Working across the border
• Seeking mutual recognition
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Fan Selection Part 3)

  2007

• Essential safety measures - who is responsible
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Fan selection part 2)

• Retrofit buildings - understanding control strategies 
• Refrigerant reclaim - an update
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Fan selection part 1)

• Supermarket refrigeration going natural
• HVAC&R skills workshop (System evacuation part 2)

• Work and life in the Antarctic
• HVAC&R skills workshop (System evacuation part 1)

• HVAC control key to naval operations 
• Skills workshop: Ammonia safety and handling

• Keeping the lights on
• Skills workshop: Refrigerant handling

• Putting life into old fridges
• HVAC&R skills workshop (Basics of Psychrometrics)