Manzoor Sheikh:
Assalamualaikum welcome to Engineering review. We are in a HVACR exhibition here in Karachi and we have with us Miss Sarah She is at the moment treasure of ASHRAE. But the future president of this organization thank you so much for talking to us. HVACR is a huge sector. Millions of companies, billions of engineers, billions of technicians are involved. The more huge is this sector, the more are the challenges in the background of climate change. When you think about that, what comes in your mind?
Miss Sarah:
There’s a lot of work for a lot of people. So dennis’s theme this year our current president is all about empowering our workforce. And I think what we’re seeing here in Pakistan and in all over the world is that there’s a lot of opportunity in this building industry for everyone.
Manzoor Sheikh:
Well, we talk about opportunities right. I mean there are a lot of commitments at a global level that we have to you know take drastic efforts so that we can mitigate the impacts of climate change. What do you think? What’s the Role of ASHRAE.
Miss Sarah:
So I think Mr Faruk maboo’s talk this morning really summed it up for me, particularly in the challenges that Pakistan faces, particularly with the textile industries in the United States where I’m from in the northeast area of the country. We don’t have a lot of textile manufacturing, but we do like to wear our denim and so in the conversation this morning I learned that you know that creating denim, making denim is a huge consumption for water and I had no idea in the fact that so much water pollution is is here in Pakistan and I think ashore has a role to play as far as our designers and our technicians to find more sustainable solutions for this industry and for the other industries in Pakistan. Because as we said over over the next you know 15 to 20 years, the number of HVAC systems that are going to be required is going to at least double. And so you know again the opportunities here to train people and to you know, educate them as far as how to design these systems more sustainably. To look at some of the new technologies here that we have today on the trade show just to see what that future looks like.
Manzoor Sheikh:
Okay. I mean whatever we are doing at the moment. Right training and designing new technologies that help you out. You know the bit, get the impacts of all that climate change. If you make a comparison, maybe the things which are not getting better too much and the designing and our work and the efforts we are doing anything that you see. These two things have synchronized.
I mean, the more whatever we are doing. Yes, if you think it’s enough.
Miss Sarah:
It’s never really enough. I think we’re on the right path, but I think these things are going to take a little time. So you know, we are already seeing changes to our climate and we know that across the world that buildings account for 40 percent of like, our greenhouse gas emissions. So looking at any opportunity that we can to go with greener technologies to reduce our fossil fuel burning, we’ll make that difference now. How fast is it going to change? I don’t really know the answer to that. You know, we just had a major flood in the United States and and it was in an area of the country that isn’t prone to flooding. It wasn’t a coastal community, it was 300 miles from the coast. And so you know, we’re seeing this all over. It’s not. It’s not just happening in one country right. It’s happening across the globe. And so I think it has taken some time to get to the forefront of understanding what the climate crisis really means. But to understand that it is a global issue. It’s not just like I said isolated to one particular country. So I think the fact that.
Buildings take you know into account like I said 40 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, we have the opportunity to make a huge difference in seeing what you know. Reducing the temperature, the global temperature rise and hopefully know can bring some of our climate issues back into check.
Manzoor Sheikh:
Thank you So much.
