CIBSE Scotland Conference 2025 - Safe and Sustainable Futures

Carrier

Carrier is a global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, with a diverse and world-class workforce. From the beginning, we have led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we keep customers at the center of every product and service we offer and we act quickly to exceed their expectations. Through our performance-driven culture, we are creating long-term shareowner value by growing earnings and investing strategically to strengthen our position in the markets we serve. Carrier has over 75 brands, has produced over 100 new products for the ninth consecutive year, has over 14,000 active and pending patent applications worldwide and approximately 53,000 employees serving customers in 160+ countries.

Hays

Hays are a world-wide specialist in recruitment and workforce solutions.  In FY23 we helped c.320,000 white-collar candidates secure their next career move, including c.245,000 Temp & Contracting roles and c.76,800 Perm jobs.

What sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues they face today we help them make the right decisions for tomorrow. For our candidates, we’re looking ahead for their careers by offering insights, pathways and support for their ambitions, building our understanding so we can connect them to the right opportunities.

We operate across 22 different sectors across the globe. Our Construction & Property specialism has been a strong bedrock of our services for almost 50 years and we have developed specialist MEP Services within this specialism. This has lead to a long standing partnership with CIBSE. One our most recent new specialisms is sustainability and we’re excited to present roles in net zero and climate change, environmental social governance (ESG), sustainable buildings, energy and carbon management, environmental impact assessment (EIA), biodiversity and air quality, contaminated land, water management and flood risk management.

IES

Over the last 28 years IES has built a solid reputation as the leading global innovator in integrated performance-based analysis for the built environment. Through their unique software capability and expert consultancy, IES help to support energy and resource efficient, healthy and cost-effective built environments across their lifecycle.

Grundfos

Water has always been the heart and soul of Grundfos. That’s why we’re driven by our purpose – to pioneer solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve quality of life for people.

This purpose is central to everything we do, guiding us in our promise – to respect, protect and advance the flow of water​.

• We take our responsibility seriously, and commit to promoting greater respect and understanding of water around the world.​​
• We protect water by minimising  waste, inefficiency, shortage, discomfort and inaccessibility, wherever the flow of water is needed.​
• We advance the flow of water through water system innovations as well as energy optimisations, with a focus on sustaining water’s flow now and into the future.​​

Kooltech

Established in 1979 Kooltech is one of the UK's largest privately owned distributors of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning products.

Victaulic

Victaulic is the world leader in pipe-joining and flow control solutions.

Schneider Electric

Schneider’s purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.

We are a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitisation to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centres, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by our deep domain expertise, we provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for our customers.

We are a people company with an ecosystem of 150,000 colleagues and more than a million partners operating in over 100 countries to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We embrace diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful purpose of a sustainable future for all.

SAV

As the recognised industry leader in delivering renewable technology and Heat Network expertise, SAV collaborates with global, market leading technology partners to offer a range of innovative and award-winning heating, cooling, and ventilation solutions. Our primary focus is on mitigating the carbon footprint of buildings and addressing fuel poverty.

Reducing energy consumption is a vital part of achieving our Net Zero targets. Naturally, the more generation capacity required the more expensive the transition to renewable technologies will be. Hence, Net Zero starts with eliminating energy waste from our buildings by realising energy savings and increasing energy efficiency.

SAV’s mission statement has always been to “achieve optimum indoor living, with minimum energy wastage.”

CIBSE Patrons

CIBSE Patrons is a network of businesses who collaborate to give financial, technical and moral backing to a wide range of initiatives led by CIBSE. Members include consulting engineering practices, manufacturers, contractors, and trade bodies. The Patrons’ primary focus is on ‘nurturing talent’: they support a wide range of initiatives designed to attract, encourage and improve the recruitment, development, training and retention of engineers on behalf of the industry at large. This support ranges from the production of careers booklets, to the sponsorship of bursaries, and to their growing role as lead supporter of the CIBSE Young Engineers Awards.