News World’s largest heat pump being built in Germany Austrian contractor Strabag’s environmental technology arm has been selected by German utilities company MVV to build the largest heat pump of its kind in the world. The large-scale heat pump…
News UK university helps designs heat pump for Ukraine’s tough winters A team at Aston University is working with Kyiv’s National Academy of Sciences on a heat pump able to deal with Ukrainian winters. The design works with Ukraine’s Soviet-style cast-iron…
News Firms hatch plan to use data-centre heat to grow food in Scandinavia Two Swedish companies, financial services provider Vinga Group and circular industry specialist WA3RM, have joined forces to develop three commercial greenhouses in Scandinavia, two heated by data centres and one…
News Germany chips in €310m toward cost of world’s largest heat pump The German government is giving chemicals giant BASF €310m to build the world’s largest industrial heat pump. The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is funding the project at…
News Abu Dhabi policing sites to ensure they adhere to heat ban Abu Dhabi City Municipality reiterated its call for construction companies, site managers and workers to strictly abide by a ban on working outside between the hours of 12:30 and 15:00pm.…
Trends ‘Electrolyte popsicles’: Five ways to survive the heat dome onsite As a ‘heat dome’ breaks calendar-day temperature records across the US Midwest and Northeast, Skanska tells GCR five ways it’s keeping workers safe onsite. 1. Pre-shift training We’re preparing for…
News Finnish firms plan to heat cities with little reactors by 2030 Finnish nuclear start-up Steady Energy aims to start work on its first small modular reactor (SMR) pilot next year, financial news service Morningstar reports. The €20m pilot will serve as…
News Turner heat study shows workers risk “permanent health effects” even on mild days Turner Construction has tested labourers working at a large data centre project in Kansas City to investigate the effect of temperature on health. The study concluded that those tested were…
Innovation Save money by heating a room’s surfaces, not its air, tech firm says A thin film impregnated with tiny heaters and incorporated into floors, walls and even furniture can provide instant, on-demand heating more cheaply and sustainably than conventional space-heating, a Finnish tech…