Tag: News

  • Airedale Celebrates Opening of U.S. Chiller Plant Serving the Data Center Market

    PRESS RELEASE The first Airedale by ModineTM brand chillers recently shipped from the newly repurposed facility in Rockbridge, VA. Racine, WI – November, 2022 – Airedale, part of Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, officially marked the launch of its new production facility in Rockbridge, Virginia,…

  • How Upgrades, Preventative Maintenance Can Improve IAQ For K-12 Schools

    K-12 schools provide future leaders with the knowledge they need to grow and develop. Children spend more hours at school than they do at home over the course of a school year, so it’s imperative that buildings are a safe and healthy place to be. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a vital aspect of a…

  • After Adiabatics: How can Data Centres Respond to the Climate Crisis?

    Updated 25/08/22 (Originally published Jul 21, 2019) Along with the rest of the world, data centres are contending with the climate crisis. With the challenge of rising ambient temperatures causing cooling failures and major outages in key data centres, coupled with increasing energy supply issues and costs, it almost feels like a no-win situation. Global…

  • Airedale Appoints Adrian Trevelyan as Data Centre Lead

    We are pleased to announce Adrian Trevelyan as the director of Data Centre Operations, accountable for a worldwide territory (excluding US) and leading the data centre cooling arm of the Airedale by Modine business as we accelerate our growth strategy. Adrian, who has achieved an MBA and Chartered Manager status during his career to date,…

  • Measuring Embodied Carbon in Bespoke AHUs

    Measuring the embodied carbon* of our bespoke AHUs is becoming more critical to our clients, as healthcare providers, commercial organisations and other industries seek to manage their own carbon footprint. Using CIBSE’s TM65 methodology, we are able to provide a mid-level embodied carbon calculation, along with the design data of each and every of our…

  • Thermal Management Unlocks Safety, Dependability, Range, and Longevity for Commercial Electric Vehicles

    “EV propulsion, energy storage, and near-countless incomprehensibly complex microelectronics components are subject to a blinding pace of advancements, inventions, and breakthroughs” Humans have designed and built motorized vehicles for more than a century. Deciding which method of propulsion to use did not start as a question about environmental impact, but rather as a pragmatic tradeoff…

  • Green is the colour of money – how to make a sustainability programme stick in manufacturing businesses

    As an air conditioning manufacturer we definitely feel the weight of responsibility when it comes to sustainability. Historically, because of the energy and refrigerant gases used within air conditioning products, the HVAC industry has attracted attention. On top of this, manufacturing processes currently use roughly one-third of the world’s energy. As a marketer I’m one…

  • HTM 03-01 new guidelines for AHUs

    On the 22nd of June 2021, the revised Health Technical Memorandum 03-01 (HTM 03-01) – Specialised ventilation for healthcare buildings, was released by NHS England & NHS Improvement. The HTM 03-01 provides comprehensive advice and guidance on the legal requirements, design, installation, maintenance, and operation of specialised ventilation in healthcare premises. The importance of ventilation, indoor…

  • Airedale by Modine US Business Launches with Corscale Data Centres

    Further to last month’s announcement that critical cooling specialists Airedale by ModineTM has commenced full scale production at their new US chiller plant in Rockbridge, Virginia, they today confirmed a significant order with data centre giant, Corscale, with plans for further business in the coming months.With Airedale by Modine cooling solutions set to be installed…

  • Mind the Gap – The future of data centre circular energy systems and district heating

    Every industry has its “north star”. A place we are all striving to get to or at least where an imagined utopia lies. For the financial markets it’s cryptocurrency, for automotive it’s the move to electric & autonomous vehicles & for the Data Centre Industry it has to be district heating/ waste heat re-use. You…