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Aquaheat Wellington Training
Aquaheat Wellington has just completed a training introduction for its gas fitting employer licence, in Central. This allows Aquaheat Wellington’s direct trained staff in its gas fitting manual to legally perform gas fitting works, while working for Aquaheat. The employee licence is issued to use from the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board, and must be formally reapplied for every three years and requires annual external audits.
2 ASHRAE publishes first Zero Net Energy and Zero Net Carbon Standard
ASHRAE Standard 228 sets requirements for evaluating whether a building or group of buildings meets a definition of ‘zero net energy’ or a definition of ‘zero net carbon’ during building operation. • Standard 228 draws from ASHRAE Standard 105, among others, to address energy and carbon flows across a site boundary, their measurement, and their balance. • It includes allowances for sites that lack opportunity to produce adequate renewable energy, while placing additional requirements on the use of external carbon and renewable energy in the calculation. • The standard defines the calculation of energy in terms of source – a multiplier on the energy crossing the site boundary to include energy used or lost in extraction, generation and transit to the site. • The main energy calculation is made in terms of annual average factors, but allowance is made for the calculation of individual hours where data is available.
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3 Dio Zhao celebrates 10 years at Beijer Ref New Zealand
Congratulations to Dio Zhao for 10 years at Beijer Ref New Zealand. Pictured left, Karl Burke, managing director, and Dio Zhao, group marketing manager.
4 Beijer Ref local tree planting day Last month, Beijer Ref New Zealand and Conservation Volunteers New Zealand visited Brookby Farm on the Papakura Stream – planting a total of 450 trees. The Brookby Project is a farm that has been partnering with Beijer Ref on waterway protection since 2019. The goal this year is to plant 8,000 plants along the stream that runs through the farm.
5 Laps for Lungs In September, ultra-marathon runner and Victoria University marketing professor Nick Ashill ran laps around Boyd-Wilson field in Wellington for 48 hours to raise funds for the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation. The campaign was part of #BreatheBetter September, and supported by bronze sponsors Simx and Daikin NZ.
6 NME Group’s new office NME Group is located in Auckland and Wellington with over 100 employees and a portfolio of clients. The company contracts to all of New Zealand’s leading construction and development companies and specialise in commercial tender and design/build work of all sizes with capability in the electrical, data, MATV, security and HVAC fields. Its Wellington office has recently relocated to 12 Victoria Street, Alicetown, Lower Hutt.
