Panasonic Celebrates Excellence through its 4th Edition PRO Awards in Heating, Cooling and Refrigeration

After an extensive judging process, Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions has announced the winners of its prestigious PRO Awards. The bi-annual awards, which have been running since 2014, celebrate quality installations, innovation and excellence in European projects featuring Panasonic’s HVAC+R solutions across a wide range of markets. 


PRO Awards 4th Edition

Attracting its greatest number of submissions to date, this round of PRO Awards showcased a high standard of entries in heating and cooling utilised in projects across different markets, including hotels, hospitals, office buildings, restaurants, shops and more. This year’s categories included: Best Residential Project, Best Retail Project, Best Commercial Project, and Best Hospitality Project. Alongside the main categories, the judges awarded Special Recognition Awards for Best Connectivity Project, Best Refrigeration Project, Best Innovation Project, Best Sustainable Project, Best Panasonic Solution, and Best nanoe™ X Project. 


The PRO Awards winners are:

 
Best Residential Project
Peris+Toral Arquitectes for Viviendas Sociales en Cornellà, Spain
 
Best Retail Project
Kälte-Klima-Service Hutter for Metzgerei Weinbuch, Germany
 
Best Commercial Project
Mecobat Ingénierie for Complexe sportif des Amandiers, France
 
Best Hospitality Project
Dahlen Haustechnik for Burg Gutenfels, Germany


Special Recognition PRO Awards are:

Best Connectivity Project

ART-KLIMA for MIRAI Clinic, Poland

Best Refrigeration Project

Tech RAC for Nolan’s of Clontarf, Ireland

Best Innovation Project

Kälte-Klima-Service Hutter for Metzgerei Weinbuch, Germany

Best Sustainable Project

Ingeasist for Europa Point Sports Complex, Spain

Best Panasonic Solution

RGS Technischer Service GmbH for Bürogebäude in Gaimersheim, Germany


Best nanoe™ X Project

Ametller Origen for Mercat d’Autors, Numància, Spain


Jury

The winners were selected by an international judging panel of independent industry experts, including:
Graeme Fox (UK) - Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the IOR and a Member of CIBSE
Jean Pradere (France) - Treasurer of the French Heat Pump Association (AFPAC)
Wolfgang Zaremski (Germany) - President of ASERCOM
Juan Travesí Cabetas (Spain) - Vice President of the Spanish Technical Association of Air Conditioning (ATECYR)
Szilárd Kisapáti (Hungary) - HVAC Engineer of the Year ‘18
Enrique Vilamitjana - Managing Director of Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions Europe
Albert Blasco - European Marketing Manager of Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions Europe