22 March 2024
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Hayley Cattell of Beijer Ref UK & Ireland and Garry Shaw of Sure Solutions were honoured for their achievements in front of a sell-out crowd at the National Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, and Heat Pump Awards in Manchester.
Awarding the title of RACHP Woman of the Year to the group sales director, host Juliet Loiselle described Hayley as 'someone who has had astonishing career growth and an equally positive impact on the company she works for and the colleagues she works with.' Joining Beijer Ref UK & Ireland in 2010, Hayley has progressed from a trainee sales engineer role to branch manager, product manager, regional sales manager, business director and group sales director 'turning traditional door-knocking sales engineering on its head and developing a core team of specialist sales managers, targeting the environmental market changes.' In 2018, Hayley was recognised by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Hayley Cattell - RACHP Woman of the Year 2024
Garry Shaw, founder and managing director of Sure Solutions, has dedicated 37 years to the RACHP industry and received the Phil Creaney's ACR Champion award. He has developed his own business to a team of 57 in seven years with a dedication to apprentices, completing 16 pathways during this time. The business's focus on natural refrigerant solutions and helping customers decarbonise their supply chains led to Sure Solutions becoming the first contractor in the world to receive the ATMOsphere-approved label for natural refrigerants - demonstrating excellence in design and installation, pushing the sector towards environmentally conscious and sustainable solutions.
Garry Shaw - Phil Creaney's ACR Champion 2024
Elsewhere, the competition was high, as over 100 award entries were received and judged by an expert panel. It was a series of double wins for Panasonic Heating & Cooling, RPS Group and Wave Refrigeration Ltd, with Britain's Got Talent 2022 winner, comedian Axel Blake and Warner's musical talent, Stephen Tanner, providing the entertainment.
Congratulations to all the winners and highly commended entries, and thank you to all who entered.
RACHP Woman of the Year
Winner – Hayley Cattell
Training Provider
Winner - Heat Geek.
Highly commended - McFarlane Telfer Ltd.
Wholesaler/Distributor
Winner - Cool Designs Ltd.
Highly commended - Smith Brothers Stores Ltd.
Best IAQ Innovation
Winner - AirX Pro - Martin Industries Ltd.
Highly commended – CIAT EPURE® Filter - CIAT
Refrigeration Project
Winner - Bidfood Glasgow Depot - Wave Refrigeration Ltd.
Highly commended - JJ Food Services - Beijer Ref UK & Miramar Engineering
ACR & Heat Pump Ancillary Product
Winner - Theoretical Performance Calculator - WAVE Refrigeration
Highly commended – ThermaSkirt - Discrete Heat
Ground Source Project
Winner - 2-phase ,3 Megawatt Modified Capacity GSHP in Scotland - Calibrate Energy Engineering
Highly commended - Ground Source Heat Pump in The Old Rectory - R A Brown Heating Services Ltd
Air Conditioning Project
Winner - Riverdale Healthcare - Panasonic Heating & Cooling
Highly commended - Cool Net Zero Project - Organic Heat Exchangers Ltd
Domestic Air Source Project
Winner – Delivering sustainable warmth to EPC A-rated home - Panasonic Heating & Cooling
Highly commended - Detached Edwardian home - Blakemore Plumbing & Heating and Viessmann
Non-Domestic Air Source Project
Winner - Decarbonisation of Wallesy Hub - RPS Group
Highly commended - Water Research Centre Phase 1 Energy Transformation Project - Calibrate Energy Engineering
Refrigeration Product
Winner - AMChill Ultra-low Charge Ammonia Chiller - Bitzer & KGM Refrigeration
Highly commended - Testo 570s Digital Manifold - Testo Ltd
Heat Pump Product (Commercial)
Winner - Modular HC Heat Pumps - Solid Energy
Highly commended - DH Sub Station Heat Pump 200kW - 5MW - Solid Energy
Heat Pump Product (Domestic)
Winner - ecoGEO+ PRO - Eco-Forest.
Highly commended - Vitocal 150/151-A Air Source Heat Pump - Viessmann
Air Conditioning Product of the Year
Winner - Hitachi Air365 Max VRF - Hitachi Cooling and Heating
Highly commended - DAISEIKAI 10 - Toshiba Air Conditioning
Heat Pump Installer
Winner - RPS Group
Highly commended - R A Brown Heating Services Ltd
ACR Contractor of the Year
Winner - Sure Solutions.
Highly commended - The RACA Group.
Phil Creaney's ACR Champion
Winner - Garry Shaw
A special thank you to the event sponsors:
ACR Journal
Bitzer
Blygold
Clivet
Cool Designs Ltd
Cross Group
Cupori
Diversitech
Exi-tite
Fujitsu
Getzner
Grant UK
Ground Source Heat Pump Association
Heat Pump Association
Heat Pumps Today
Hitachi
HVAC Communications
Institute of Refrigeration
IOR Scotland
Modern Building Services
Besa
Secon
Toshiba
Warmflow
Women in Engineering Society
Women in RACHP Group
World Refrigeration Day
and to the event judges:
Judith Evans - Director RD&T and Professor at London South Bank University
Iain McCaskey - Head of Devolved Nations, BESA
Graeme Fox - Director of Technical, BESA
Mike Gittoes - Business Development Manager, Wave Refrigeration
David Dunn - Sales Director North Europe, Carrier RLC Europe & Riello
Andrew Slater – Editor, ACR Journal & Managing Director, HVAC Communications
Lisa-Jayne Cooke - Service Sales Manager – Key Accounts at GEA
Damian Wiszniewski - UK Sales Manager, Carrier DX
Rob Vine - Heat Pump Consultant, Applied Renewable Energy
Juliet Loiselle - Publisher Heat Pumps Today, ACR Journal & The Woman Engineer.
A detailed NACRA 2024 review will follow.
