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Happy Event Manager and Happy Admin for Air Conditioner Hire

Happy Event Manager and Happy Admin for Air Conditioner Hire The Situation When Reece’s Structures and Gilkison Events Hire needed…

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Stays Cool With A Supplementary 750kw Chiller

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Stays Cool With A Supplementary 750kw Chiller The Situation The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) needed a…

[Video] Active Air Rentals: Who We Are And What We Do

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Bushfire Response – Air Conditioning and Power For Mobile Command

Bushfire Response: Mobile Command Centre with Climate Control The Situation January 2013 and Coonabarabran, in northwest NSW, experienced the worst…

Telephone Exchange Keeps Cool With A 4.5kW Portable Air Conditioner

The Situation When a customer rang in need of a way to cool their telephone exchange we had just the…

Data Stays Safe With 4.5kW Portable Air Conditioner

Data Stays Safe With 4.5kW Portable Air Conditioner The Situation When a customer rang with an urgent need to keep…

Disaster Relief – 300 Person Camp For Queensland Floods

Disaster Relief: 300-Man Camp Climate Control The Situation In recent years “Queensland Floods” is a headline we are getting all…

Cooling Hits The Spot For High Ceiling Warehouses

Cooling Hits The Spot For High Ceiling Warehouses Managing heat in high-ceiling warehouses can be challenging, especially during sweltering summers.…

Marquee Air Conditioning In 40 Degree Heat Is A Winner

Marquee Air Conditioning In 40 Degree Heat Is A Winner The Situation During the height of Perth’s sweltering summer the…

Quick Cooling For Banks, Offices, Retail and Post Shops

Quick Cooling For Banks, Offices, Retail and Post Shops The Situation Customers often ring when their air conditioning has failed…

Out-Of-The-Box Thinking Makes Event Air Conditioning A Great Success

Out-Of-The-Box Thinking Makes Event Air Conditioning A Great Success The Situation ProDesign is a leading lighting consultancy that specialises in…

Bank Keeps Cool With Emergency Air Conditioning

Emergency Air Conditioning: Keeping Businesses Running During Outages The Situation DTZ is a global leader in property services offering end-to-end…

The Fight Against Pests Heats Up With 21kW Electric Blower Heater

The Fight Against Pests Heats Up With 21kW Electric Blower Heater The Situation A pest control company called with a…

Happy Patrons, Bigger Spend, Happy Harness Racing – All Thanks To The 21kW Electric Blower Heater

Happy Patrons, Bigger Spend, Happy Harness Racing – All Thanks To The 21kW Electric Blower Heater The Situation Gloucester Park…

Big Ass Fans Caroma

Big Ass Fan Warehouse Cooling: Powerful Ventilation Solutions During the scorching summer months in Sydney, the Caroma team’s office was…

The Perfect Blend: Funky Cafe Meets Humble Evaporative Cooling Unit

The Perfect Blend: Funky Cafe Meets Humble Evaporative Cooling Unit The Situation Jessie’s Café is a funky café / barista school /…

Emergency Chiller Keeps Carpet Manufacturer Running

Emergency Chiller Keeps Carpet Manufacturer Running: Disaster Relief The Situation Around 8.30am, Phil received a call (whilst driving to Canberra)…

City To Surf Powered Along By Active Air

City to Surf Powered by Active Air: Keeping Runners Cool The Situation After a successful event last year, the City…

Mercedes-Benz Car Launch Too Cool

Mercedes-Benz Car Launch Too Cool The Situation When Mercedes-Benz decided to launch their new Black Series cars at a flash…

Active Air Digs Deep to Help Aimex Mining Trade Show Stay Cool

Active Air Digs Deep to Cool AIMSEX Mining Trade Show The Situation The most important mining exhibition in Australia, Asia-Pacific’s…

Heat Taken Out Of MasterChef’s Pop Up Restaurant Thanks To Active Air

Heat Taken Out Of MasterChef’s Pop Up Restaurant Thanks To Active Air The Situation The MasterChef Dining & Bar pop-up restaurant opened…

Hot Models Stay Cool Thanks To Active Air

Hot Models Stay Cool Thanks To Active Air Perth Fashion Festival is Western Australia’s largest annual fashion event, aiming to showcase the…

$1.5 Million Reasons to Stay Cool This Summer

$1.5 Million Reasons to Stay Cool This Summer Posted: 16 September 2013 Active Air Rentals, a leader in cooling,…

Data Centre Stays Critically Cool With 20kW Portable Air Conditioners

Data Centre Stays Cool with 20kW Portable Air Conditioners The Situation The client had scheduled water tower maintenance, however their…

SCG Redevelopment Powers Ahead With Active Air

SCG Redevelopment Powers Ahead With Active Air The Situation The Sydney Cricket Ground’s (SCG) state-of-the-art pavilion is well under construction.…

Celebrating 100 Years – International Fleet Review Powered By Active Air Rentals

Celebrating 100 Years: International Fleet Review Powered by Active Air The Situation In late 2011, the Chief of Navy –…

Central Park Apartment Commissioning – Temporary Chillers And Boilers

Central Park Apartment Commissioning: Temporary Chillers and Boilers The Situation Sydney’s new $2b downtown destination, Central Park on Chippendale, is the…

How Does Santa Stay Cool? Air Conditioners And Pedestal Fans From Active Air Rentals Of Course!

How Does Santa Stay Cool? Air Conditioners And Pedestal Fans From Active Air Rentals Of Course! The Situation It’s that…

PGA Australia “Exceeds Expectations” – Air Conditioning By Active Air

PGA Australia “Exceeds Expectations” – Air Conditioning By Active Air The Australian PGA Championship was on over the weekend and…

Taste of Melbourne: Foodie Heaven Powered Along With Rental Generators, Distribution Boards and Heaters

The Situation Melbourne’s notoriously fickle weather wasn’t enough to dampen this fantastic event. At Taste of Melbourne over 15 of Melbourne’s latest,…

Behind The Scenes Of Emergency Camps

Behind the Scenes of Emergency Camps: Providing Essential Climate Control ‘We have been providing power and air conditioning at emergency…

Event Air Conditioning: How It Looks Is just As Important As How It Well It Works

Event Air Conditioning: How It Looks Is just As Important As How It Well It Works Ascot Racecourse is the major…

[Video] Top 5 Things To Check If Your Diesel Generator Isn’t Working

Top 5 Things To Check If Your Diesel Generator Isn’t Working Diesel generator not working? Watch this video to see…

The Secret Life Of Portable Air Conditioners

The Secret Life Of Portable Air Conditioners Portable air conditioning has been in Australia for over 40 years and has…

2B Central Park Developments: Open-Air Plant Room Design

2B Central Park Developments: Open-Air Plant Room Design The $2b Central Park development required a temporary plant room with chillers…

[Video] Singha Beer Thai Food Festival Sydney Power And Distribution

Singha Beer Thai Food Festival Sydney Power And Distribution Sydney’s finest Thai restaurants joined forces to create some of the…

2200km Challenge: Overcoming Unexpected Events

2200km Challenge: Overcoming Unexpected Events After travelling 2,200km to the pearling and tourist town of Broome, North West Australia, with 3…

Choosing The Right Air Conditioner: Refrigerated Air Conditioner Vs. Evaporative Cooler

Choosing the Right Air Conditioner: Refrigerated vs. Evaporative Cooling (Focuses on function and benefit)

Choosing the Right Air Conditioner: Refrigerated vs. Evaporative Cooling (Focuses on function and benefit) Ready to start your project? Time…

A Guide To Data Centre HVAC Contingency Planning

A Guide to Data Center HVAC Contingency Planning Always required, but rarely thought of, air conditioning is mandatory in every…

Keeping Cool At I, Malvolio

Keeping Cool At I, Malvolio The Situation What to do when the critically acclaimed I, Malvolio is showing as part…

Data Centre HVAC – 10-Point Contingency Plan

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One Chilled Out Leopard Seal

One Chilled Out Leopard Seal Taronga Zoo keepers were puzzling why one of their Leopard Seals was not putting on weight…

[Video] How To Air Condition A Marquee Or Event Space

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Architects Of Air – Luminaria Leaves Visitors Cold and In Awe

Architects of Air: Luminaria Leaves Visitors Cold (and in Awe) The Situation In January, Sydney was treated to Architects of Air ‘luminaria’…

How To Keep The Insanely Hot Lamborghini Huracan Cool

How To Keep The Insanely Hot Lamborghini Huracan Cool How do you keep the insanely hot, Lamborghini Huracan, cool? With…

Lot Of Hot Air – The Story Of A Three Week Long Server Room Heat Load Test

Lot Of Hot Air – The Story Of A Three Week Long Server Room Heat Load Test The Situation A…

Helping Fight Cancer With The 20kW Portable Air Conditioner

Helping Fight Cancer With The 20kW Portable Air Conditioner The Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, is at the…

Supplementary Chiller Keeps RPA Cool

Supplementary Chiller Keeps RPA Cool The Situation When the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital needed a supplementary chiller to help keep their facilities…

No Spoils

No Spoils The Situation A Wollongong Hospital laboratory needs to be kept at a constant 20 degrees Celsius or test specimens…

Spiegel Tents, Discrete Ducting And Exceptional Air Conditioning – Adelaide Festival

Spiegel Tents, Discrete Ducting And Exceptional Air Conditioning – Adelaide Festival The Situation Adelaide Festival is one of the world’s great…

Sydney Festival 2014 – A Sustainable And Exceptional Event

Sydney Festival 2014 – A Sustainable And Exceptional Event The Situation Every January, Sydney Festival enlivens and transforms Sydney with a bold…

The POSH Auction – Cancer Council NSW

11 years ago, our founder and Managing Director, Jim faced a most devastating time as his dad sadly succumbed to…

Australian Open Of Surfing – Event Power Generation And Air Conditioning

Australian Open of Surfing: Power and Cooling for a World-Class Event The Situation In July 2013 IMG Worldwide announced the return of…

A Very Tasty Event

A Very Tasty Event: Temporary Power & Air Conditioning for Food Events Project: Taste of Sydney The Situation: The World’s…

[Video] Sydney Festival 2014

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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia – Keeping The Catwalk Cool

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia – Keeping The Catwalk Cool The Situation Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia is Australia’s premier fashion and lifestyle…

Ferrari Race Days Sydney

Ferrari Race Days Sydney The Situation Over the weekend, Sydney hosted the national-exclusive Ferrari Racing Days event for the first time ever. Lovers…

Foxtel Data Centre HVAC Contingency

Foxtel Data Centre HVAC Contingency The Situation Foxtel couldn’t risk any broadcast interruptions over the Easter weekend so they called in…

Hot Times On Bennelong Lawn

Hot Times On Bennelong Lawn The Situation When a corporate event on Bennelong Lawn started to heat up, literally, Active…

MasterChef

MasterChef The Situation MasterChef Australia returns to our screens tonight with, what’s touted as, the best group of amateur cooks…

Sleepers Awake – 24/7 Temporary Power

Sleepers Awake – 24/7 Temporary Power The Situation Sleepers Awake is a truly unique temporary public artwork by international artists Heather…

The How To Of Heat Load Testing

The How To Of Heat Load Testing With the increasing number of heat dense environments, such as data centres and…

Long Term 60kW Chiller Hire Helping Build Cyclone Moorings

Long Term 60kW Chiller Hire Helping Build Cyclone Moorings The Port of Hay Point is one of the largest coal…

Adhesive Manufacturer Unstuck Thanks To 220kW Temporary Hire Chiller

Adhesive Manufacturer Unstuck Thanks To 220kW Temporary Hire Chiller The Situation H.B. Fuller, a leading global provider of specialty adhesives…

Long Lease For Lend Lease

Long Lease For Lend Lease The Situation The Brisbane Showgrounds are currently undergoing regeneration by the RNA and Lend Lease.The project includes the state-of-the-art Royal…

Temporary Power and Air Con For Iconic Sustainable Building’s Scheduled Maintenance

The Situation 1 Bligh Street is the next generation in premium grade sustainable office space. It combines leading edge design, technology…

Temporary HVAC – Like A Duct To Water

The Situation Bad puns aside, when Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre started renovations they called Active Air Rentals to help with connecting…

Game Of Thrones Exhibition Lighting Power

Game Of Thrones Exhibition Lighting Power The Situation To celebrate the launch of Game of Thrones season four on Google…

A New Spin on The Age Old ‘Rent Or Buy’ Decision

Rent or Buy? A New Spin on the Age-Old Decision To rent or buy? During the heady boom days the…

Top 5 Tips For Chiller Efficiency

Top 5 Tips For Chiller Efficiency Diesel generator not working? Watch this video to see the top 5 reasons generators…

Top 5 Tips For A More Sustainable Event (That Won’t Blow Your Budget)

Top 5 Tips For A More Sustainable Event (That Won’t Blow Your Budget) Everywhere you look everything’s ‘going green’. And…

University Of NSW Beats The Chill With Temporary Portable Air Conditioner

The Situation The University Of NSW were having a mid year uni gear sale and decided to house it in a pop-up…

How To Commission An HVAC Chiller Without On Site Power

How To Commission An HVAC Chiller Without On Site Power The Situation The University of Sydney was replacing an old chiller but…

Power To the People – 30 kVA Generator Keeps Construction Job Going

Power To the People – 30 kVA Generator Keeps Construction Job Going The Situation While a Padstow retirement village underwent…

The 2014 AWESOME International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things

The Situation Last week, Perth children and their carers were treated to the ever popular AWESOME International Arts Festival For Bright Young…

Architects Of Air At Brisbane Festival

Architects of Air at Brisbane Festival: Creating a Climate-Controlled Experience The Situation Last month, Brisbane Festival treated attendees to Architects of Air ‘Exxopolis’ –…

Public And Profits At Risk From Heatwaves And Underprepared Businesses

Public And Profits At Risk From Heatwaves And Underprepared Businesses With a hotter and drier than normal Summer predicted, and…

Air Conditioning That Has The X-Factor

Air Conditioning with the X-Factor: Innovative Solutions for Any Event The Background As you can see, it’s not nearly as…

Top Secret Meeting And Party For Sports Giant

The Situation When a sports giant held a top secret staff meeting and party in the middle of the Central…

Thrills and Chills At The Caulfield Cup

Caulfield Cup: 600kW of Cooling for VIPs The Situation The Caulfield Cup. It’s one of Australia’s richest thoroughbred horse races and…

Cool Caterpillars

Cool Kids Air Conditioner Hire: Providing Comfort in Childcare Centres The Background Caterpillar Kids is a baby and toddler sensory play,…

Nice and Nudie – Maximum Production Thanks To Low Temp Chiller Rental

Nice and Nudie – Maximum Production Thanks To Low Temp Chiller Rental The Background Started in 2003 with a blender,…

Data Centre Dilemmas – What To Do When The Air Conditioning Breaks

Data Centre Dilemmas: When Air Conditioning Fails The Situation What is a facility manager to do when the air conditioning…

The Bride Keeps Her Cool

The Background A lavish wedding in Sydney’s north-west called for discrete temporary air conditioning, power distribution, power generation and climate…

‘Tis The Season…For Corporate Executive Off-Site Meetings

The Background At this time of year most people are starting to think about Christmas. But it seems that for…

Process Problems. Hire Chiller Saves The Day And Allows Sustainable Plant Planning

Process Problems. Hire Chiller Saves The Day And Allows Sustainable Plant Planning The Background Sodexo Australia employs a diverse workforce of…

Heatwave Season Is Coming. Ready?

Heatwave Season Is Coming. Ready? With a hotter and drier than normal Summer predicted, and a recent damning report from the Auditor–General regarding…

Boxing Day Bonanza For Big Box Retail

Boxing Day Bonanza for Big Box Retail: Keeping Customers Cool with Rentals The Situation Just days before Christmas, and the…

8 Ways To Avoid Blackouts This Summer

8 Ways to Avoid Blackouts This Summer (and Stay Cool) Ready to start your project? Time To Get Active.

Hurley Australian Open Of Surfing – Power And Air Con Install By Active Air Rentals

Hurley Australian Open Of Surfing – Power And Air Con Install By Active Air Rentals Ready to start your project?…

Frigid Farmers

Frigid Farmers How To Temporary Air Condition Giant Cold Storage Warehouses The Situation Since starting their first milk round in…

Sizzling Summer And Sizzling Sales Thanks To Temporary Air Conditioning

Sizzling Summer And Sizzling Sales Thanks To Temporary Air Conditioning The Situation Extreme heat was causing shoppers to leave a…

Super Cool, Super Powered, Super Cars At Clipsal 500 Adelaide

Super Cool, Super Powered, Super Cars At Clipsal 500 Adelaide The 17th annual Clipsal 500 Adelaide V8 Super Car event kicks off…

Doing More With Less: A Facility Manager’s Guide To Stretching HVAC Budgets While Improving Service Delivery

Doing More with Less: A Guide to Stretching HVAC Budgets A Soft Economy The age-old problem of Facility Managers doing…

The Facility Manager’s Quick Reference Guide To Temporary Air Conditioning

The Facility Manager’s Quick Reference Guide To Temporary Air Conditioning Download the guide Make your job easier. Use this handy…

Up, Up and Away…

There she goes! We’re installing a supplementary 400 kW chiller at a major infrastructure facility. Ready to start your project? Time To…

The Secret Life Of Temporary Chillers. Why Companies Like Nudie Juice, Aussie Farmers, Sodexo & More Are Using Them

A stalwart in the HVAC world, the humble chiller is a vital piece of equipment. Unfortunately they are rarely thought…

How To Heat A Warehouse

How To Heat A Warehouse The top four things to consider when heating an entire warehouse or factory are: Floor Space…

How To Air Condition Health Facilities (When The Permanent HVAC System is Being Serviced)

How To Air Condition Health Facilities (When The Permanent HVAC System is Being Serviced) What’s a facility manager to do?…

Quick Reference Guide For Successful Data Centre HVAC Maintenance

Quick Reference Guide For Successful Data Centre HVAC Maintenance HVAC maintenance is a must, but when data centres are…

A Secret Weapon For A Secret Install

A Secret Weapon for a Secret Install: Discreet Climate Control Solutions The Background This story is about one of Australia’s…

Comfy, Cosy Elephants At Melbourne Zoo

Comfy & Cozy Elephants at Melbourne Zoo: Climate Control for Animal Wellbeing The elephants at Melbourne Zoo are feeling much happier thanks…

Warm Warehouses

The Background A manufacturing environment with multiple warehouses required medium-term heating. Each warehouse included both people and stock. The warehouses measured:…

Time Lapse Of A 750kW Chiller Being Loaded To A Truck

Time-Lapse: Chiller Loading

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Mercedes-Benz AMG Challenge Bathurst

Mercedes-Benz AMG Challenge Bathurst The Background By invitation only. The highly exclusive AMG Challenge at Mount Panorama promised to be…

Long Term Chiller Hire

Long Term Chiller Hire The Market Demands It Long-term chiller hires are becoming a hot option thanks to the slowing market,…

V8 Supercars – Porsche Carrera Cup

The Background The V8 Supercars once again roared into Sydney Motorsport Park over the weekend and Active Air had the privilege of…

Leichhardt Long Lunch Power And Distribution

Leichhardt Long Lunch Power And Distribution The Background On Saturday 22 August the inaugural Leichhardt Long Lunch was held in Sydney. Featuring…

Active Air Rentals: Proud Air Conditioning Sponsor of The Spirit Of Anzac Centenary Experience

Active Air Rentals: Proud Sponsor of the Spirit of ANZAC Centenary Experience A Once-In-A-Life-Time Experience As the flagship community event…

Gold-Standard For Goldcoast V8s

Gold-Standard For Goldcoast V8s The Background The V8 Supercars once again roared into the Gold Coast and Active Air had the privilege…

Voltage Spikes No Challenge For Temporary Air Conditioners

The Situation This North Sydney office building has a long history of air conditioning problems caused by random voltage spikes.…

Avoiding Data Centre Disaster With Portable Air Conditioners

Avoiding Data Center Disaster with Portable Air Conditioners

Avoiding Data Center Disaster with Portable Air Conditioners The Situation It’s 4am and the overheating alarm has just gone off…

Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane?

Is It A Bird Is It A Plane The Situation When a high profile tech company needed to showcase their…

A Unique Chiller Install For The One&Only Hayman Island

A Unique Chiller Installation for One&Only Hayman Island Client: One&Only Hayman Island Project: Temporary Chillers The Background: In 2014, One&Only Hayman…

A 4-Star Air Conditioning Choice

A 4-Star Air Conditioning Choice for Your Home The Situation The Quest Hotel in Bondi Junction is undergoing a major…

Battle Ships And Temporary Chillers

Battle Ships and Temporary Chillers: Keeping Cool During Military Exercises The Background Earlier this month NUSHIP Adelaide, a $1.5 billion…

Luxury Service For A Luxury Brand

Luxury Service For A Luxury Brand The Situation As Sydney struggled through a three day heat-wave the show still had…

No Horsing Around With The Air Conditioning

No Horsing Around With The Air Conditioning The Situation In 2014 NSW Racing opened their brand new anti doping facility in…

Cryogenic Cooling

Cryogenic Cooling: Ultra-Low Temperature Solutions The Situation The medical facility at the University of Sydney was built during the 1940s…

Keeping The Chocolates Cool

Keeping The Chocolates Cool The Situation What do you do when the chocolate storage room at a major retailer has…

Air Conditioning For Well Being

Air Conditioning for Well-being: Breathe Easy, Live Comfortably The Situation Health & Wellbeing Weekend took place on Saturday October 31, and…

Cruising To Coolness

Cruising to Coolness: Climate Control Solutions for Marine Applications The Situation The busy cruise ship season kicked off in full…

A $2 Billion Briefing

A $2 Billion Briefing: Delivering Air Conditioning Solutions The Situation Sydney’s White Bay is slated for a $2 billion transformation…

Award-Worthy Air Conditioning

Award-Worthy Air Conditioning Solutions The Situation The Aria Awards are Australia’s preeminent music awards. This year, Videocraft were appointed the exclusive facilities…

Keeping it cool at Woolworths Double Bay

Keeping it cool at Woolworths Double Bay Woolworths, Double Bay NSW, had been experiencing some issues with their air conditioning…

A long table lunch for a worthy cause

A Long Table Lunch for a Worthy Cause: Supporting the Community Breast Cancer Care WA is a WA charity that provides…

Porsche Rennsport Powered and Cooled by Active Air

Porsche Rennsport Powered and Cooled by Active Air The Situation After a three-year break, the Porsche Rennsport was set to return to…

Powering the Sydney Festival

Powering the Sydney Festival Every January, Sydney Festival enlivens and transforms Sydney with a bold cultural celebration based on the highest quality…

Keeping Data Rooms Cool During Planned Maintenance

Keeping Data Rooms Cool During Planned Maintenance The Situation Like most companies at this time of year, Vocus Communications, Perth office,…

Supporting the Bates Drive Public School

Supporting the Bates Drive Public School Kareela Golf Club holds a Charity Golf Day supporting a cause within their local community every year.…

Power Distribution at Diesel, Dirt & Turf

Power Distribution at Diesel, Dirt & Turf The Situation Held at Penrith Panthers, the Diesel Dirt & Turf Expo showcased the biggest range of…

Heat Load Testing

Heat Load Testing Heat Load Testing With the increasing number of heat dense environments, such as data centres and specialist…

Winter Magic These School Holidays

Orion Shopping Centre in Springfield Lakes, QLD installed a temporary ice rink for their Winter Magic school holidays entertainment. To maintain the correct…

Super Storm Interrupts Major Australian Event

Super Storm Interrupts Major Australian Event The Situation There are some things that beyond an event organiser’s control, and one…

Chiller Replacement for Newcastle City Council

Chiller Replacement for Newcastle City Council The Situation A heritage listed, stunning sandstone building houses Newcastle City Council. Recently the building…

A Temporary Chiller Keeps Laverty Pathology Testing

A Temporary Chiller Keeps Laverty Pathology Testing The Situation Laverty Pathology is a comprehensive medical laboratory and pathology practice; they have…

When France Came to Town – Powering the BBR Festival

BBR Festival: Creating a Comfortable Festival Experience The Situation BBR Festival (BBR means Bleu Blanc Rouge like the colours of the French flag) was born…

Warming Finance

The Situation The Royal Exhibition building was booked to house a meeting of financial minds in Melbourne during August, and as we…

The Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience arrives in Cairns

As the flagship community event of the Anzac Centenary national programme, the Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience has been busy visiting locations…

Chiller Failure in a High-Functioning Communications Facility: Avoiding Disruption

Chiller Failure in a High-Functioning Communications Facility: Avoiding Disruption The Situation Our client, Haden, services a high functioning IT communications facility in…

Keeping Things Cool While Waiting On New Chillers to Be Built

Keeping Things Cool While Waiting On New Chillers to Be Built The Situation Our client, Astral Pool, a pool and accessories…

Royal Hall Of Industries Gets Set For Sydney Events Season

Royal Hall Of Industries Gets Set For Sydney Events Season The Situation The Royal Hall of Industries (RHI) is a majestic venue…

It’s A Nice Air Con Solution For A White Wedding

It’s A Nice Air Con Solution For A White Wedding The Situation Everyone’s wedding day is right up there with…

Google’s Pixel Global Launch

Google’s Pixel Global Launch Last week, Google launched their first ever phone, Pixel, and they did it in style with a global live…

Caulfield Cup 2016 – Keeping the Punters Cool

Caulfield Cup 2016: Creating a Comfortable Race Day Experience The Situation The BMW Australia Caulfield Cup. It’s one of Australia’s richest thoroughbred…

Who Wouldn’t Love Making AWESOME Cool?

The Situation Each year in the October school holidays, the AWESOME Festival presents a spectacular array of theatre, dance, early childhood activities, music,…

Amarok V6 2-Day Car Launch: Creating a Cool and Luxurious Experience

Amarok V6 2-Day Car Launch: Creating a Cool and Luxurious Experience The Situation When you’re Volkswagon, and you have an insanely…

A Temporary Chiller Allows Production to Continue

A Temporary Chiller Allows Production to Continue Client: Schenck Process Australia Project: Temporary Chiller The Situation: Schenck Process are a global…

A Temporary Chiller for the Iconic Wentworth Park

A Temporary Chiller for the Iconic Wentworth Park Client: Wentworth Park Project: Temporary Chiller The Situation: With the future of…

A Cool Room on Bondi Beach

A Cool Room on Bondi Beach: Creating a Comfortable Beach Oasis The Situation Fujitsu is one of Australia’s leading air conditioner…

Keeping the Big Top Cool

Keeping the Big Top Cool The Situation Cirque Extreme! Is a thrilling, adrenaline-fueled show that will run for 6 weeks in…

Keeping it Cool at the Australian Open

Keeping it Cool at the Australian Open The situation Every year since 1905 Melbourne has played host to the first…

Tent City for 500 SES Volunteers

Our team has been up North assisting with the set-up of tent City at Wollongbar near Lismore for emergency services…

Mad Hatters Lunch For Breast Cancer Care WA

Mad Hatters Lunch For Breast Cancer Care WA Breast Cancer Care WA is a charity that provides personalised emotional, practical and…

Warming Future Minds

If you’ve ever set an exam, you will know there is nothing worse than sitting an exam in a freezing…

Power Distribution: It’s a French Food Festival!

Power Distribution It’s a French Food Festival BBR Festival or the ‘French Food Festival’ takes over Sydney’s iconic location of th e…

Visy Plant Launch

Providing Visy with Temporary Power, Temporary Climate Control Client: Pages Event Hire Project: Wedding Marquee The Project: When Pages Event Hire was tasked…

Taronga Zoo Giraffe Enclosure: Climate Control for Animal Wellbeing

Providing Taronga Zoo with Temporary Heating Solutions, Packaged Unit Hire, Rapid Response Client: Taronga Zoo Project: Heating for Giraffe Enclosure…

Real Madrid World of Football

How IEDM uses Active Air Rentals to power and climate control their clients’ events Client: IEDM Project: Real Madrid World…

Wedding Marquee: Creating a Comfortable Celebration Space

Providing a wedding with marquee cooling, temporary climate control and cooling solutions Project: Wedding Marquee The Project: We provided cooling…

Uniqlo

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A TASTE of Melbourne

A Taste of Melbourne: Bringing the City’s Charm to Life (Event Focus) The Situation Each year Melbourne hosts A Taste…

Awesome Festival 2019

Awesome Festival 2019: Keeping the Party Cool Client: AWESOME Arts Project: Awesome Festival The Project: Active Air has been proudly…

5 Questions To Ask When Air Conditioning A Marquee

RENTAL HOW-TO GUIDE 5 Questions To Ask When Air Conditioning A Marquee Are you organising air conditioning for a marquee…

How To Air Condition A Marquee

How To Air Condition A Marquee Click image above to open full image in new window. Related Articles Do you…

Ultimate Guide to Chiller Failure

Free Download The Ultimate Chiller Survival Guide How to avoid chiller failure Download the pdf of the eBook or read…

Powering Events – 8 Tips For Savvy Event Managers

RENTALS HOW-TO GUIDE Powering Events 8 Tips For Savvy Event Managers “The Active Air team are always willing to come…

Brisbane Festival 2019

Brisbane Festival 2019: Keeping the Celebration Cool Client: Brisbane Festival Project: Brisbane Festival 2019 The Project: Active Air worked with…

COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 Update: Active Air’s Commitment to Your Health & Safety Update: 1 April 2020 Active Air is an essential service…

Air Conditioning and Power for Temporary Camps

Air Conditioning & Power for Temporary Camps: Reliable Solutions Active Air has been specialising in disaster recovery for well over…

Emergence Response Temporary Power Generation and Electrical Distribution

Emergency Response: Temporary Power & Electrical Distribution Temporary power and electrical distribution are vital for the successful operation of any…

Temporary Medical Facilities: Providing Climate-Controlled Care

Temporary power and electrical distribution are vital for the successful operation of any temporary medical facility. Over the past 48…

5 Steps to Prevent Chiller Failure: Avoid Summer Disasters

5 Steps to Prevent Chiller Failure: Avoid Summer Disasters While there’s no fool-proof way of stopping chiller failure, there are…

Telecommunications Facility Perth

Providing a Telecommunications Facility with Temporary Chiller Rental, End-to-end solutions, Temporary Chiller Plant, Contingency Planning Client: Precise Air Project:…

Centrelink Carnarvon

Centrelink Carnarvon Client: BSA Project: Centrelink Carnarvon The Project: When Centrelink Carnarvon needed urgent temporary cooling, the Active Air team…

Bathurst Woolworths Chiller

Bathurst Woolworths Chiller: Ensuring Optimal Food Storage Client: Total Ventilation Hygiene Services Project: Woolworths Bathurst The Project: When Woolworths Bathurst’s…

Temporary Generator for Essential Service Provider

Temporary Generator for Essential Services

Providing clients with Temporary Chiller, National Coverage, Temporary Chiller Plant, Rapid Response, an End-to-End Solution Client: – Project: – The…

How to create an air conditioning contingency plan for your server room or data centre

How to create an air conditioning contingency plan for your server room or data centre If you manage a server…

City of Joondalup Valentine’s Concert: Setting the Mood with Climate Control

City of Joondalup Valentine’s Concert: Setting the Mood with Climate Control Client: City of Joondalup Project: 2021 Valentine’s Concert The…

Sydney Festival 2021

Providing clients with Air conditioning for Event, National Coverage, Marquee Cooling, an End-to-End Solution Client: – Project: Sydney Festival…

Narellan Pools – Heating Solution

Narellan Pools Heating Solution Client: Narellan Pools – Project: Warehouse Heating The Project: Active Air provided a 350kw boiler and…

Checklist: What to do if your Chiller Fails

If your chiller has failed, chances are you will need a temporary chiller solution until your chiller is fixed or…

Goulburn Concrete – Mobile Batching Plant

Client: Goulburn Concrete Project: Mobile Batching Plant The Project: Active Air provided a complete solution for mobile batching plant…

6 Steps to Chiller Contingency Planning: Be Prepared

Your contingency plan is a technical document, requiring a detailed understanding of your entire chiller system. It’s best to bring…

Screen Queensland’s Long Term Temporary Climate Control Solution

Client: Screen Queensland Project: Climate Control The Project: Working with Screen Queensland, Active Air came up with a long term…

Viscount Pact Group Chiller Hire

Client: Viscount Pact Group Project: Chiller Hire The Project: Active Air recently provided a solution for a chiller breakdown for…

A Temporary Ice Rink for Hunter Valley Gardens: Creating a Winter Wonderland

Client: Hunter Valley Gardens Project: Power & Climate Control The Project: Working alongside Hunter Valley Gardens, Active Air provided a…

Climate Control at the Magic Mike Australia Live Show: Keeping Audiences Cool

Client: Magic Mike Project: Climate Control for the Magic Mike Australia Live Tour The Project: After such huge success across…

4 Summer Event Essentials: Keep Your Guests Cool

Event planning can be an incredibly rewarding process. It’s an opportunity to create memories that will last for years to…

Tips for Cooling Your Warehouse Space

Summer’s almost here, and thanks to La Niña, it’s set to be a wet and humid one. Working conditions might…

5 Reasons To Rent A Heater

Whether you’re planning an upcoming event or require temporary heating solutions for an air conditioner breakdown at school, heater rentals…

A Fast Chiller Solution For A Manufacturing Company

Our team in Victoria were contacted by one of our HVAC clients on the AFL Grand final public holiday advising…

Caulfield Cup 2022 Climate Control: Keeping VIPs Cool

Active Air has provided a seamless climate control system for the Caulfield Cup Carnival since 2006, this year was no…

The British Sausage Company Chiller Solution: Keeping Products Fresh

The British Sausage Company contacted our team in Perth as their existing chiller for heir processing plant had failed. Being…

Mine Site Cooling Solutions

A mine site in east WA reached out to our Perth team as they had a vessel that required to…

Gold Coast 500

We had the pleasure in providing the temporary climate control for the structures at the Gold Coast 500. The systems…

Benefits Of Using A Portable Air Conditioner

The summer heat can be unbearable. It’s hot, you’re sweating and the aircon in your office or commercial space isn’t…

How to Choose the Right Industrial Heater?

With so many options for heating systems available on the market, it’s easy to get confused about which industrial heater…

Temporary Chiller Solution

The primary objective of this project was to provide a temporary chiller solution to support the concrete batching plant at…

Portable Air Conditioner Hire: A Cost-Effective Solution For Temporary Cooling Needs

When your current cooling systems go down, the need for a swift and effective solution becomes paramount. Unfortunately, in situations…

The Benefits Of Portable Air Conditioner Hire For Events & Functions

Portable air conditioner hire is a strategic solution that enhances comfort for guests at various events and locations, particularly during…

Portable Air Conditioner Hire For Offices & Workspaces: Enhancing Productivity & Comfort

Creating a comfortable and conducive work environment enhances productivity and employee satisfaction. One effective way to achieve this is through…

7 Benefits of Portable AC Rentals for Events & Functions

When planning an event or function, one key aspect to consider is the comfort of your guests. Whether it’s a…

Choosing The Right Portable Air Conditioner For Your Event: Factors To Consider

Setting up and executing an event is a complex task, with each event having its own unique set of challenges.…

Sustainable Cooling Solutions: The Eco-Friendly Benefits Of Portable Air Conditioner Hire

In today’s world, sustainability is more than a buzzword; it’s a necessity. As climate change continues to impact global temperatures,…

Top Scenarios Where Air Conditioning Rentals Can Save The Day

When cooling is critical but time or resources are limited, air conditioning rentals can step in and solve problems fast.…

Why Renting Air Conditioning Is A Smart Choice For Temporary Cooling Needs

Cooling isn’t always something you can plan for. Equipment fails, the weather turns, crowd numbers grow or a space simply…

A Guide To Choosing The Right Temporary Heater For Your Needs

Maintaining the right temperature ensures safety, efficiency and comfort in large or enclosed spaces. Whether heating vast industrial areas, creating…

Seasonal Chiller Rentals: A Smart Solution For Your Summer Cooling Needs

When temperatures rise, so does the need to keep your environment cool and operations running smoothly. Whether you’re setting up…

Beyond Cooling: The Multifaceted Benefits Of Portable Air Conditioning Rentals In Today’s Workspaces

Workplaces today are more dynamic than ever. From industrial sites and classrooms to trade shows, pop-up offices and short-term venues,…

Choosing Between Single-Phase & Three-Phase Distribution Boards: What’s Best For Your Needs?

When you’re planning an event or temporary site setup, the power supply is often one of the last things people…

Top Factors To Consider When Choosing A Portable Air Conditioner For Your Event

When organising an event, comfort is key, especially during warmer months or in enclosed spaces. A portable air conditioner can…

Top Maintenance Tips For Extending The Life Of Your Portable Chiller

Portable chillers are essential in many events, industrial and commercial settings, but like any equipment, they need regular care to…

The Environmental Benefits Of Using A Chiller Only During Warmer Months

Cooling is essential in many commercial, industrial and event environments, but running a chiller year-round can come at a high…

Emergency Cooling Solutions: How Portable Chillers Prevent Equipment Downtime

Unexpected heat loads place immediate stress on equipment. As temperatures climb, systems are pushed beyond their safe limits; production slows,…

Last-Minute Event Cooling: 24-Hour Portable Aircon Rental Services

Hosting an event in Australia during a sudden heatwave can turn excitement into panic. When temperatures rise without warning, even…

Portable Evaporative Air Cooler Vs AC: Which Cools Better In Humid Climates?

Rising humidity can make summer heat feel heavier and more difficult to manage, especially in busy work environments. When the…

Construction Site Cooling: Heavy-Duty Portable Aircon Rental Solutions

Australian summers place real pressure on construction sites. High temperatures affect how people work, how equipment performs and how schedules…

Portable Chillers For Tight-Access Sites: What To Consider (Space, Noise, Power, Connections)

Tight-access sites make cooling decisions more complex. Rooftops with limited lift access, basement plant rooms, loading docks with narrow entries…

How To Choose The Perfect Portable AC Unit Rental For Your Space

Excessive heat in a professional environment is more than an inconvenience. It causes equipment to overheat, productivity to drop and…

Outdoor Event Cooling: Portable Evaporative Air Coolers For Venues

Managing heat is one of the key operational challenges outdoor event organisers and venue owners face. As temperatures continue to…

Chiller Hire: The Ultimate Guide To Renting Industrial Cooling Equipment

Industrial cooling needs can change quickly. Planned maintenance, equipment failure, seasonal demand or temporary projects often require fast and reliable…

How To Rent A Dehumidifier: Everything You Need To Know

If your property is feeling uncomfortably damp or clammy, it may be a sign that excess moisture is starting to…

What Happens When Your Permanent Chiller Fails? A Step-By-Step Emergency Response Guide

A chiller breakdown rarely happens at a convenient time. One minute your system is running as expected, the next you…

How To Cool A Temporary Site Office Or Construction Shed In Australian Summer

If you have ever stepped into a site office in the middle of an Australian summer, you already know how…

Does Evaporative Cooling Work In Humid Climates? The Australian Business Guide

Portable evaporative coolers can work in humid climates, but their performance depends heavily on the site conditions. For a business,…

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