CLASS DESCRIPTION

As a valued customer, you're invited to join us for an inside look at what’s changing in refrigeration contracting starting January 1, 2026 and beyond.

Beginning in 2026, refrigeration repairs, retrofits, and installations will come at a higher cost to your customers. As industry partners, it's our shared responsibility to inform, educate, and guide end users toward solutions that ensure reliability, sustainability, and long-term cost efficiency.

Topics Covered:

• AIM Act guidelines
• Current options and examples applying HFO’s and A2L’s in replace versus repair and new installs.
• Design and system architecture influenced by refrigerant charge size, existing refrigerant, condition of equipment, future expansion, and code compliance.
• A2L mitigation requirement based on releasable charge and LFL
• Isolation piping practices
• Ventilation strategies
• Leak detection
• C02 considerations
• Support tools and transition product
• Terms and Definitions as defined by the AIM ACT examples are:
  • “Conversions” as approved long term refrigerant solutions
  • “Component” part of a refrigeration system, including, but not limited to, condensing units, compressors, condensers, evaporators, and receivers; and all its connections and subassemblies, without which the refrigeration system will not properly function or will be subject to failures.
  • "Cumulative Replacement" defined means the addition of or change in multiple components within a three-year period.
  • "New Refrigeration Equipment" defined means either of the following:
    • First installed using new components, used components, or a combination of new and used components; or modified such that:
      • The nominal compressor capacity is increased; or
      • The system has undergone cumulative replacements, within any three-year time, of components in full or exceeding 50 percent of the capital cost of replacing the entire refrigeration system, excluding the cost of refrigerated display cases.

INSTRUCTOR

Ron Leckbee

ADDITIONAL DETAILS 

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