African Design Magazine September 2015 | Page 67

Feature: HVAC+R Social spaces would be key focus areas for future villages, regulating the HVAC+R within these spaces would become the work of future HVAC+R Engineers. These Engineers would become vital components in developing future cities, centring architecture on HVAC+R requirements. Hospitals, clinics, courts, Town Halls and community centres will merge into community areas, occupying a single space. These spaces will adapt to demand. This would require all HVAC+R systems to allow for air cleaning and filtering ability will become a major selling point for units. The importance for HVAC+R in the future cannot be understated; companies and consultants within this space will become increasingly under pressure to review the industries importance and drive change, not only in South Africa but in Africa. As continental demand grow, some companies may find adaption a cause for their extinction, others will evolve into continental players. AD Written by Chicagofire For more information, visit www.hotmustard.co.za Five minutes with Fifty-Two Engineering John Parry of Fifty-Two Engineering, a company which has completed work in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Congo, Tanzania, Ghana and South Africa, answer our questions regarding HVAC+R in Africa. How do you believe government and industry could work closer together for the benefit of the HVAC industry? Do you find the HVAC industry to be an ageing one? How would you compare the HVAC industry in South Africa and the rest of Africa? Read more here africandesignmagazine.com 67