UK chapter

It is my privilege and honour to be the newly elected President of the ASHRAE UK Chapter. Keeping up with the legacy and tradition I am setting up the theme for this year This year my theme will echo with the vision from the previous ASHRAE President which is “Empowering the workforce: building a sustainable future” So I my focus will be to Engage, invest, mentor and provide opportunities towards upskilling the workforce and bring a sustainable future for next gen” Climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions are the alarming topics that needs to be addressed today. Environmental regulations come into play, and they drive most of the research functions these days. Addressing climate change is the foremost goal of all the industry sectors. It then becomes our responsibility as a scientific community to step forward and invest in ideas on how to deal with these challenges. The best way is to foster engagement from young minds, collaborate on new ideas, mentor passionate and committed professionals and try to bring a positive change to the environment to provide a sustainable future to the next gen It needs to start with every individual who is passionate about learning, contributing in way or the other to the scientific communities. We need to spread awareness among the younger generation, establish a platform for them, leverage their skills, foster collaboration with universities, take advice from industry experts, explore all opportunities and move forward to find solutions We must facilitate the adaptive approach, thinking ahead and team collaboration of young talent and experienced professionals along with little training which will help progress the industry growth. Every member can be an ambassador if they have the same passion I request all the ASHRAE members to come forward, bring in ideas, work together, motivate each other, contribute in whatever way possible and make a difference. Each one of you is valuable. I want to assure that your contribution will be acknowledged. Every single effort will be counted towards our chapters progress and success. Please come forward and participate To conclude, I want to take forward the vision from the Previous Presidents and keep the momentum going for investing in knowledge exchange, engaging by establishing collaboration, mentoring by sharing experience, invest in ideas and bring solutions to create a better life on this planet