The AIRAH Resilience Checklist

HVAC&R systems provide comfort conditions within buildings, they support many processes and they enable many systems. Owners, managers and operators rely on these often complex systems to successfully run their businesses.Failure to maintain HVAC&R systems reduces their useful life, increases their operating costs, and introduces unreliability, dissatisfaction and risk to a business’s operations. Good resilience practices underpin the performance of HVAC&R services.They promote safety, reliability and comfort, and help us manage operational costs and comply with legislated requirements and achieve environmental ratings.Failure to account for future climate changes is risky; it creates costs and reduces returns. HVAC&R resilience has never been more important. Australia’s dependency on HVAC&R technology continues to rapidly grow. The megatrendsof population growth, urbanisation and the information technology revolution are all demanding greater reliance on HVAC&R systems.Almost every part of our built environment requires HVAC. Almost every part of the food chain relies on refrigeration. HVAC&R resilience is also widely acknowledged as a fundamental step towards achieving a net-zero emissions future. Our economy depends on reliable, effective and efficient HVAC&R like never before, which means it also depends on resilient HVAC&R and relatedservices like never before.About AIRAH PrefaceIn its inaugural edition, this Resilience Checklist aspires to be the definitive reference for HVAC&R. This is a document that is designed for theHVAC&R industry and for the custodians of the built environment – owners, facility managers, sustainability managers and others. It is designedto encourage a greater focus on resilience in the built environment. By adopting these resilience principles, a direct outcome is an improvement in the energy efficiency of buildings, which in turn provides both short and long-term economic benefits.As with any tool that is used in the market, it must respond to the market’s needs in order to stay relevant and useful. This edition has been developed with considerable industry engagement