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05 CMYK / .ai CMYK / .ai CMYK / .ai www.acrjournal.uk/heat-pumps Grant UK is an O cial Partner of Bath Rugby Grant UK is pleased to be returning to The Rec to support Bath Rugby as one of their O cial Partners. For several years, Grant UK has supported this local Premiership Rugby club and the Company is looking forward to the upcoming seasons, supporting the players during games and helping raising awareness of sustainable heating solutions o the field. End in sight for construction slow-down Contract wins oer hope against declining projects starts. ° Slower rate of decline for project-starts suggesting end to market slow-down ° Work on-site for private housing climbs 29% on 2020 figures but falls by a third on three months previous ° Value of residential work starting on-site increases by over a quarter on previous year but drops 24% against past three months ° Hotel and leisure increase projects- starts by over a half compared to last year (52%) ° Health best performing non-residential sector, increasing 9% on three months prior and nearly 90% on 2019. ° Infrastructure project-starts see down turn, dropping nearly a half (48%) Glenigan, one of the construction industry’s insight and intelligence suppliers, released the September edition of its Construction Index – visit: www.glenigan.com for full report. Panasonic Selected as Finalists in the National ACR & Heat Pumps Awards 2021 Panasonic is pleased to announce they have been selected as finalists in two categories in the forthcoming and highly anticipated National ACR & Heat Pump Awards. The two categories for which Panasonic has been shortlisted for are; Heat Pump product with the highly energy e cient Panasonic Aquarea T-Cap Monobloc Heat Pump range, in addition to the ACR Product of the year with their innovative nanoeTM X technology. The winners will be announced at a celebratory dinner in Manchester on 20th October 2021 at the prestigious Midland Hotel. www.aircon.panasonic.eu/GB_en/ Secretary of State Welcomes Ground-breaking New Training Course Launched by Heat Pump Association The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, has welcomed the launch of a new training course that will overhaul the route to becoming a heat pump installer in the UK. The Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution, published in November 2020, outlined a target to install 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028 as part of ambitions to create green jobs whilst making strides towards net zero by 2050. The new training course, launched by the Heat Pump Association, aims to equip the heating industry with the additional skills needed to deliver on this target and deliver low carbon heat to hundreds of thousands of British homes. N E W S ECODAN RENEWABLE HEATING IS JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED Mitsubishi Electric has provided a medical practice in South London with three commercial Ecodan air source heat pumps to deliver renewable heating and year- round comfort. The owners of Paxton Green Group Practice needed a heating solution that would future-proof the building by reducing both heating bills and carbon emissions, to replace the existing gas boilers. Patients and sta can now benefit from cost-eective, renewable heating while also enjoying modern levels of comfort. 2021 finalist