From March 14, until March 16, REHVA President, Catalin Lungu, REHVA Staff Marie Joannes and REHVA co-chair of the decarbonisation Task Force Tomasz Cholewa, attended ACREX India 2023. During the three days the team, invited by ISHRAE and sponsored by Eurovent Certita Certification, had the opportunity to attend and participate in many inspiring events.
Catalin Lungu had the opportunity to give a short speech during the curtain raiser Function, on March 13th, quoting the G20 slogan “One Earth, One Family, One Future”. By this reference, he wished to remind that we can only achieve our goal “Engineering toward Net Zero”, the theme of ACREX 2023, if we cooperate and work together. He also highlighed the importance of the partnership and friendship between ISHRAE and REHVA.
ACREX 2023 was a real success, with more than 450 exhibitors. REHVA welcomed visitors throughout the 3 day of the exhibition and had the opportunity to meet some of the 40 000+ total visitors of this year’s edition of ACREX India.
On March 14, ISHRAE and REHVA came together and presented a seminar on “Engineering toward net zero” in front of a full and interactive audience. During this seminar, many inspiring and interesting presentations were given by top experts in the field.
REHVA President, Catalin LUNGU, presented “LEVEL(s) and SRI-EU tools for decarbonization of the built environment”, presenting the European advancement of work in this field, and EU technical tools: LEVEL(s), SRI and SLE.
Eric FOUCHEROT (Eurovent Certita Certification) gave a presentation on “Energy Efficient Ventilation: investors should take the control”. He spoke about many informative things, including the life cycle costs for Air Handling Units, opening up the discussion on the higher need for meaningful incentivization policies.
Tomasz Cholewa presented “HVAC professionals as key players in energy retrofit and decarbonisation of existing buildings”. Talking about the energy consumption in building, he presented the numbers and opened the question on how we could reduce energy consumption in the building through renovation, but also education of users, Energy Renovation of Building “Enveloppe and the use of RES. He also took this opportunity to present the REHVA European Guidebook 32 – energy efficiency renovation of existing building.
The speakers received a Certificate of Appreciation for their participation and presentation.
REHVA would like to thank ISHRAE for the invitation and the organisation of this great and successful event! We are already looking forward to ACREX 2024. Thank you also to Eurovent Certita Certification for sponsoring our participation in ACREX2023.
