Specialist knowledge is required to meet the stringent demands of healthcare facilities. These facilities have specific requirements for patient and visitor comfort, safety and health, and for medical staff and administrative personnel. Specialist knowledge is also needed when designing operating theatres, ICUs, laboratories and research rooms. Effectively optimising comfort, safety, functionality, indoor air quality, infection…
For industrial sites, the main objectives for air conditioning and ventilation systems most often relate to processing requirements rather than staff comfort. Maintaining temperature or humidity levels within defined tolerances can be the overriding requirements for industries where certified manufacturing environments need to be maintained, such as healthcare products. Other applications may prioritise staff safety,…
Specialist facilities such as museums and art galleries require constant temperature and humidity to be maintained within defined parameters. This is critical for storing and displaying artefacts within a suitable environment, 24/7. As well as specific temperature and humidity requirements, it is important to control the AC plant so that rapid changes in temperature (and…
Within food processing facilities, the main objectives for the air conditioning and ventilation systems is to provide sufficient airflow to maintain a positive pressure environment. This ensures suitable levels of filtration and also prevents condensation. While maintaining relatively comfortable conditions for staff is important, it is secondary to ensuring processing areas remain within specified temperature…
Complaints of too hot & too cold often relate to seasonal changes but can also occur daily as the sun travels around the building. The most common complaints received from air conditioned buildings relate to drafts caused by cold air blown in from supply air diffusers. Low (rather than high) humidity is a common phenomenon…