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This episode explores the issues raised by the IMechE Report "Adapting Industry to withstand rising temperatures and future heatwaves" and how the refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump industries need to address them.
Rob Lamb, Chris Green and Brian Churchyard, IOR members active on the IOR Beyond Refrigeration Environment group discuss the need for the new ways of working to ensure resilience and availability of cooling in the future - the importance of collaboration, of good design and maintenance but also of getting the right resources in place to adapt to changing condition, including non refrigeration technologies - we conclude that the industry needs to change the way it does things and start designing for more capacity and less energy.
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You can read the IMechE Report here https://www.imeche.org/policy-and-press/reports/detail/adapting-industry-to-withstand-rising-temperatures-and-future-heatwaves
And explore the Environmental Audit Committee work on living with rising temperatures here https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/62/environmental-audit-committee/news/196119/how-can-we-learn-to-live-with-rising-uk-temperatures-and-what-steps-should-we-take-to-adapt-to-their-effects/
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