Stuff has done a good job today (with help from expert input from Jacksons engineering director and ventilation engineer, Scott Roberts) explaining why ventilation systems need to be inspected, to stop the spread of coronavirus. We’ve got more coming on this but please reach out if you are a MIQ facility who needs a site…
Otago Boys High School – Dunedin’s largest school with 811 students — was having issues with their heating. Not ideal in a town where winter mornings can drop to -2ºC! The brief Originally, the school had three coal-fired boilers, installed in the 1970s in a below-ground boilerhouse. The boilers operated on coal until 2010 when…
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health and the Dental Council of New Zealand released new guidelines for dental surgeries to meet. These related to urgent or emergency care of COVID-positive patients (or those suspected to be), dictating that only dental surgeries equipped with negative pressure environments could treat these high risk patients.
6 things I’ve learnt from 2020 By Lance Jimmieson So it turns out the old saying is true: what doesn’t break you can make you stronger! And after the rain comes rainbows. I’m not sure I fully appreciated either back in March during lockdown, but it’s turned out to be the case for us. 2020 has been a rough…
We’re excited to announce Jacksons is the winner of the 2020 Facility Management Association of NZ (FMANZ) “Service Provider of the Year” award. We were up against some incredible businesses in this category with some impressive projects behind them so we were a bit flabbergasted to win. But we think the reason we took out…
Newsflash: it is possible to reduce operating costs and improve the customer experience and sales all at the same time! In a nutshell, there is an opportunity for supermarkets to operate in a more sustainable way and improve energy efficiency (which leads to cost savings), just by integrating the design of their air conditioning and…
Newshub spoke to us about the innovative solution we developed for “sweaty fruit”. Packhouses have issues with stickability when labelling some smooth-skinned produce (kiwifruit, avocados, nectarines etc). Lance Jimmieson, managing director of Jackson Engineering, describes the issue as “like taking a bottle of milk or a bottle of beer out of the fridge and…
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Strategies to reduce the transmission of airborne infectious diseases in the Healthcare Sector
The purpose of this article is to provide commentary and outline strategies to reduce the transmission of airborne infectious diseases with respect to heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems typically found in the range of buildings utilised throughout hospitals and healthcare facilities. The article is intended to provide general guidance principles that apply specifically to…
The main purpose of air conditioning is to keep people comfortable and maintain good air quality while buildings are occupied. However, if a building is to be unoccupied for long periods, there are good reasons to regularly run certain aspects of the air conditioning systems. These are summarised below. These operating parameters will need to…
Commercial buildings with air conditioning systems can be made safer from airborne infectious diseases and that could be done quite quickly, Jacksons MD Lance Jimmieson told Stuff recently. Read the article HERE or in full below: By Marta Steeman, Stuff Building managers, owners and tenants are worried their air conditioning systems could spread coronavirus. Managing…