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Showcase of high achievement and project excellence
ALWAYS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE AWARDS CEREMONY IS THE ARBS YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARD 2018, AND THIS YEAR WAS NO EXCEPTION WITH THE ENERGETIC JASON HARRISON FROM AIRMASTER AUSTRALIA CLAIMING THE AWARD.
HARRISON said HVACR is a great industry to work in and cited mentoring as a direct influ- ence for his achievements declaring “it has helped me to succeed.”
He was first employed by Honeywell at the age of 17 completing his apprenticeship in 2012 before being promoted to the role of project en- gineer responsible for a million dollar BMS up- grade at the McKell Building.
His next project was a $1.4 million BMS in- stallation at 8 Chifley Square, Sydney. In 2013 Harrison accepted the role of project delivery manager at Airmaster where he has completed major upgrades at various Westfield sites.
By 2016 he was promoted to state manager for the NSW branch overseeing operations for the entire state. Last year he completed his Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Mechatronics.
Harrison was up against two outstanding fi- nalists including fire safety engineer, Firas Sha- wash and Cold Logic engineer, Laura Fortuna.
The ARBS Project Excellence Award was giv- en to F Mayer Refrigerated Storage project un- dertaken by Strathbrook Industrial Services and Danfoss Australia.
On accepting the award Ian Wilson of Strathbrook Industrial Services said CO2 has so much more potential than is currently being used in Australia.
He urged everyone in attendance to check it out, adding it has a massive future.
The project to win this award involved the in- stallation of the first full scale refrigerated cold storage facility using their newly patented sys- tem which used carbon dioxide as the refriger- ant in both the cool rooms and freezer rooms.
While this new facility is not the first to em- ploy CO2 as a working fluid the new design im- proved the energy efficiency to a point where it actually outperforms the chemical refrigerants in the variable Melbourne climate.
The new design features a dedicated second- ary cooling system which turns on during warm weather events when conventional CO2 systems would normally have poor energy efficiency. This secondary system greatly increases the en- ergy efficiency in hot weather and then turns off during the rest of the year.
The other finalists for this category were A.G.Coombs Group and AECOM for the Inter- national Convention Centre, Darling Harbour and SEDAC Energy Management for its be- spoke BEMS which was tailored by the Spot- light Retail Group.
LEFT: The winning Strathbrook Industrial Services and Danfoss Australia team.
BELOW: Winner of the Young Achiever Award, Jason Harrison, on stage at the award ceremony.
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