September 2024
IOR Newsletter New IOR Titles Published Waste heat - integrating heating and cooling Thermostatic Expansion Valves (GPG126) The Future of Heat Pumps (2) (GPG127)
Priorities for the future
For the past few years education has been by the far highest priority for members. And most of the other priorities have linked to this. This has included tasks such as completing a review of the Apprenticeship, supporting colleges with a campaign to attract more RACHP teachers and build links with industry, providing resources for apprentices with Masterclass webinars and raising the profile of the students through awards. You will have noticed that IOR webinars such as our CoolTalk series focus heavily on maintenance for efficiency as part of our educational remit. Alongside this, the IOR has made progress in promoting our industry to schools. There is now a network of over 20 Ambassadors in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) in the IOR membership, 12 STEMAZING trained members running events in primary schools and 10 RACHP STEM Toolkits with branded games and puzzles and a new section of the fantasticfridges.com website for the 16+ age group demonstrating cooling technology, components and concepts.
Next steps
What comes next as the IOR Board review the priorities for the next two-year period is up to you, and they are open to hearing your suggestions. For example, we need to do more to address environmental concerns such as cooling resilience to extreme heat, encouraging low GWP refrigerant use ready for when the GB F-Gas Regulation is updated (still awaited!), provide guidance for users to achieve net zero, and bring more heat pump expertise in to the IOR so that our guides and events reflect the growing interest and challenges of this technology. Incoming President Lisa-Jayne Cook is co-ordinating work on revising future priorities. She will be reaching out to members and IOR Committees in the coming weeks.
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