Improve Air Quality In Your Office

Improve air quality in your office before summer. Air quality is not something you’re likely to think about until a heatwave arrives. When office air starts to be too hot and stuffy, it affects health, well-being and sickness levels. To avoid problems with productivity, have a look at the issues with your offices and the air you breathe.

Air conditioner faults are often blamed for problems from summer colds to asthma. However, poor air quality is usually a result of maintenance errors. So, here is an example maintenance checklist as a guide:

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Benefits of Air Conditioning

Most people think they know about air conditioning, as it’s frequently used in large shopping centres, restaurants, business workplaces and homes. However, apart from the apparent temperature control function, air conditioning systems offer many additional benefits. Advances in technology provide air conditioning units that heat and cool buildings efficiently with minimal energy.

Air conditioning units set the temperature of an environment to an exact specification. Controlling and maintaining a comfortable temperature – whatever the weather – has never been more straightforward.

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Best Practice For Data Centre Cooling

Have you ever had a laptop with a whirring fan to cool your precious battery and save your data from meltdown? Now imagine the same noise in a large data centre, filled with powerful, heat-generating components.
The slightest of variations in temperature and humidity can cause systems to fail. The right cooling system is vital in spaces containing tech. Businesses cannot risk network failures or data loss.
Closely controlled environments are essential for data centre cooling and other settings such as labs, hospital operating rooms, museum archives, and more. Anywhere that demands accurate climate control.
So, you’ve established that the right air conditioning system for your data centre cooling is required, but how do you choose? And how do you know whether your contractor has the right expertise?
So much can be picked up from the recommendation of other customers in other industries. Choose an air conditioning contractor with the right track record and know-how to design – and install – your data centre cooling and ventilation systems.
Specification of the best air conditioning system for your needs depends on the demands of your organisation. A traditional inverter driven air conditioning unit might be the best option. Perhaps evaporative cooling is the technology for you.
Part of the specification process involves the full audit of all the heat-generating tech equipment. Other factors include the construction of the building. An accurate value for heat gain is measured in British Thermal Units or BTUs. Engineers use tools and computer modelling software to evaluate heat load before deciding on the right aircon unit equipment for your area to keep cool.

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Make Your HVAC System More Energy Efficient

An energy-efficient HVAC System (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) has to meet targets in all aspects. Employees and visitors to business premises – family and friends at home – all need high-quality air indoors to stay healthy and productive. HVAC systems that are more energy efficient protect your people, your pocket and the planet.

The correct maintenance and use of a quality air conditioning system allows facilities managers (and homeowners alike) to predict building energy consumption and associated emissions accurately. Fail to manage correctly, and there is a risk of runaway energy costs.

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Keeping Your Classroom Cool

Keeping your classroom cool for students isn’t just a nice added extra. Classrooms without cooling systems can experience sweltering heatwaves. The met office may offer advice about finding cool, shaded spots indoors, but some school buildings don’t have enough cool spaces.

Over-heated teachers know how important it is to maintain a calm and comfortable school and campus environment. Simply relaxing school uniform policy during hot weather sometimes isn’t enough.

Some forward-thinking schools and universities are investigating the options. Learning centres (such as private schools perhaps) could measure pupils’ relative exam success during summer heat and air-conditioned calm.

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Mechanical Design Services

Why choose SDH as an HVAC Designer?

Why do commercial and industrial businesses choose SDH as an HVAC designer? Facilities managers appreciate that finding an expert to design and install suitable systems isn’t easy. When completing HVAC design, SDH experts consider the health & productivity of employees and how to add value to commercial property. Cost savings, ongoing efficiency, maintenance schedules provide all the advantages of high indoor air quality at the right time, right places and the right price.

As leading HVAC designer specialists, we can install quality heating, ventilation and air conditioning  systems needed for the business or organisation to succeed. Expert installation is an integral part of HVAC fit-out, but a quality system starts with a quality design. It’s the HVAC designer planning, costing, requirements and product choices that will ultimately make the real difference to your organisation. Discover why you should choose SDH not just to fit but also as an HVAC designer. Read More