Computair News

The largest HVAC&R event in Latin America, the AHR Expo Mexico, has just taken place at the Cintermex in Monterrey. Until the eleventh hour we were still hoping to attend, in spite of the international travel restrictions in place due to Covid. After careful consideration, however, we finally had to make the decision not to…
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The world currently has two big problems on its hands. Quite rightly, Covid-19 has recently taken the focus, but the ever-growing threat of global warming has not diminished and we are still seeing strange weather patterns globally which could be the harbinger of worse things to come. In many cases the solution to global warming…
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Computair would like to congratulate our partners, California-based UltraViolet Devices, Inc., on a truly ground-breaking achievement in the ongoing global battle against the coronavirus infection. On 11th March, UVDI announced that its V-MAX™ UV-C air disinfection technology was proven to eliminate 99.99% of airborne SARS-CoV-2 – the primary viral strain causing COVID-19 – in moving…
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s been nearly a year since the first UK lockdown was declared due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not much more than a month after our return from AHR Expo 2020 in Orlando, world-wide travel simply stopped. The time since then has been occupied in working from home, holding Zoom meetings…
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Our chairman, Ray Nottage, sent out a message to the team this week on the actual date of our 40th anniversary, and we thought it was worth sharing. 40 years ago this week, Nigel and I took the risky decision of starting a new company called Computair Ltd, with no product, in a market that…
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Computair is celebrating its 40th anniversary in November this year and to mark the occasion, we have gathered together some of the best memories, anecdotes and throwbacks to the technology of the 1980s. Take a look at our dedicated webpage by clicking ’40 years of Computair’ on the nav bar above, or see the link…
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This isn’t necessarily ‘news,’ rather a quick look back down memory lane for anyone with an interest in programming history. We recently took a straw poll amongst the team to find what hidden programming treasures lay beneath our modern C++, C#, ASP, PHP, VB, Typescript and Javascript exterior. The results were fascinating, as was the…
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Covid-19 has cut a swathe through normal working patterns, requiring great organisation, precision technology and hard work from IT support to enable teams to work from home with as little disruption to customers as possible. What’s interesting is how many of us are joining meetings from home. Where before there might have been 2 or…
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The long-awaited retirement of browser support for Adobe Flash at the end of 2020 is now only a few months away. Many years ago, Flash was a widely-used format for multimedia interactive web content. However, it has long since been rendered redundant by the advances made in web standards, such as HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript,…
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In what we think is a very good news story indeed, later this year we will be celebrating Computair’s 40th anniversary. That’s 4 decades in the business, creating software solutions for the HVAC-R industry and building partnerships with clients which in some cases have lasted nearly as long. In the current difficult climate, we are…
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