SCANVAC Awards Statutes

The SCANVAC Award
  1. The SCANVAC Award is a prize of honour for private individuals, companies or organisations in the Nordic countries who have made outstanding contributions in the areas of heating, ventilation and sanitation.
  2. The SCANVAC Award winner is granted € 2,000. Any travel expenses incurred by the award winner in connection with the award-giving shall be defrayed by SCANVAC. Moreover, the award winner must be presented with a diploma.
  3. The SCANVAC Award shall only be awarded in case there are worthy candidates and can be awarded no more than once a year.
  4. The jury is composed of not less than four members. Each country can appoint one jury member.

    The award-giving can take place only when at least three jury members are in agreement. The decision of the jury is final.


    The SCANVAC Award for young researchers
  1. The objective of the award is to appreciate and encourage young researchers in the Nordic countries who work within the field of heating, ventilation and sanitation.
    The award shall be awarded to a person under 35 years of age who has made a considerable effort that can be researched and confirmed in the scientific literature. At least one of these articles must have been published in a Nordic technical journal of heating, ventilation and sanitation during the five-year period prior to the award-giving.
  2. The winner of the SCANVAC Award for young researchers is granted € 2,000. Moreover, the award winner must be presented with a diploma.
  3. The SCANVAC Award for young researchers shall only be awarded in case there are worthy candidates and can be awarded no more than once a year.
  4. The jury is composed of not less than four members. Each country can appoint one jury member.
  5. The award-giving can take place only when at least three jury members are in agreement. The decision of the jury is final.


    General Statutes
    The awards ought to be presented at an annual meeting, a conference or a similar event in one of the Nordic countries where the award-giving can contribute to drawing attention to the field of heating, ventilation and sanitation.

    A press release must be sent out in connection with any award-giving.

    The assembly of delegates may change the award amounts.

    No one can win the award more than once.

    The jury members are elected for a period of one year at a time. Jury members cannot be awarded any SCANVAC prize.
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    Jury members can claim no economic compensation for the work carried out in the jury. Each country must cover the travel expenses of its own jury member.



Supplemental SCANVAC prizes of honour
Adopted at the SCANVAC meeting in Stockholm, the 24th of March 2000.

The Rydberg Gold Medal
  1. The Rydberg Gold Medal is a recognition for outstanding contributions to the research on or the development of ventilation and room air distribution.
  2. The medal is typically awarded every second year in connection with the international ROOMVENT conference or in accordance to the instructions of the SCANVAC assembly of delegates.
  3. The jury who appoints the winner of the Rydberg Gold Medal shall be the same as the jury who appoints the winner of the SCANVAC Award.
  4. The gold medal is named after Professor John Rydberg (1908 – 1986) in order to honour his international pioneer work with room air distribution at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in the middle of the nineteen-hundreds.
  5. A portrait of Professor Rydberg is shown on the medal and the name of SCANVAC shall be visible as well. The gold medal is presented together with a diploma.
  6. If the production costs of the gold medal are considered too high SCANVAC may decide to award € 2000 together with a diploma instead of a gold medal.

Honorary membership of SCANVAC
  1. SCANVAC may honour a person with an honorary membership of SCANVAC.
  2. The honorary membership can be given to:
    • Persons in the Nordic countries who have worked meritoriously hard to strengthen the collaboration between the Nordic countries in HVAC matters.
    • Persons in or outside the Nordic countries who have contributed considerably to establishing a cooperation between SCANVAC and other organisations outside the Nordic countries.
  3. The jury who agrees on making a person an honorary member is the same as the jury who appoints the winner of the SCANVAC Award.
  4. The honorary member shall receive a diploma documenting the honorary membership.

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SCANVAC-pris:
 
1971   NKB-gruppen
            Paul Becher                Danmark
            K.O. Juel Rasmussen Danmark
            Knud Meek                 Sverige
            Ulf Rengholt               Sverige
 
1975    Nordiska Ventilationsgruppen
             Paul Becher                   Danmark
             Erik Christophersen     Danmark
             Ole Valbjørn                  Danmark
             Esko Kukkonen             Finland
             Veijo Siitonen                Finland
             Hallvard Hagen             Norge
             Svein Myklebost           Norge
             Bengt E. Erikson           Sverige
             Börje Löfstedt               Sverige
             Anders Svensson         Sverige
 
1980    Folke Peterson           Sverige
1981    Juha Gabrielsson      Finland
1982    P.Ole Fanger              Danmark
1984    Eystein Rödahl           Norge
1986    Seppo Halttunen       Finland
1987    David Wyon                Sverige
1988    Tomas Lindvall           Sverige
1989    Eimund Skåret            Norge
1990    Olli Seppänen             Finland
1992    Peter V. Nielsen          Danmark
1993    Halvor Røstad             Norge
1995    OSO Hotwater            Norge
1997    Johannes Zoëga         Island
1998    Oddbjørn Sjøvold      Norge
1999    Jan Sundell                  Sverige
2000    Ole B. Stampe             Danmark
2001    Helena Vuorelma        Finland
2002    Nina Dawidowicz        Sverige
2004    Enno Abel                    Sverige
2006    Per Rasmussen            Danmark
2008    Gaute Flatheim            Norge
2010    Bengt-Göran Jarefors Sverige
2012    Jørn Simonsen             Danmark
2013    Jorma Railio                  Finland
2015    Bent Michael Nielsen  Danmark
2018    Swegon Air Academy
 
 
SCANVAC-pris for unge forskere:
1993    Geo Clausen               Danmark
1995    Per Heiselberg            Danmark
1997    Jorma Säteri                Finland
1998    Jørn Toftum                 Danmark
1999    John Rune Nielsen     Norge
2000    Jarek Kurnitski             Finland
2001    Pawel Wargocki          Danmark
2005    Miimu Airaksinen       Finland
 
 
 
John Rydberg Gold Medal:
2000    Mats Sandberg         Sverige
2002    Shuzo Murakami       Japan
2004    Peter V. Nielsen         Danmark
2007    Elizabeth Mundt       Sverige
2011    Chen Qinyan             China
2013    Risto Kosonen           Finland
2014    Yuguo Li                     China, Hong Kong
2018    Arsen Melikov           Danmark                 
 
 
 
Æresmedlem af Scanvac:
2001    Halvor Røstad             Norge
2017    Per Rasmussen           Danmark
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