Ventilation

The requirement for good ventilation in buildings and other confined spaces is becoming increasingly important for businesses. Currently, ventilation for buildings is being revised to reflect lessons learned from Covid-19 at the beginning and the measures required to protect people moving forward.

Effective ventilation is vital in all workspaces, as it helps balance out the fresh outdoor air with the stale inside air and vents unwanted gases to the outdoors.

At Aircon Group, we are experts when it comes to ventilation and can provide useful guides and designs to ensure you have the correct system for your industry. A few are listed below:

• Public Sector Properties
• Commercial Properties & Management Offices
• Airports
• Hotel and Leisure Services
• Independent, locally-owned cafes and restaurants
• Industrial Buildings

There is a worldwide consensus that improving ventilation is one of the most effective ways to reduce the transmission of Covid-19. However, all vents and ductwork must be clean to ensure this is the case.

Improving Health & Air Quality

Ventilation is essential to keeping the people in your workplace safe from problems caused by gases or pollutants in the air. Those who suffer from asthma, allergies or respiratory immune disorders are likely to have symptoms that become irritated by contaminants that frequently circulate through the vents. A good ventilation system allows multiple fresh air changes per hour to come into the building without affecting the efficiency of your central heating or air conditioning. This can help to control humidity levels and prevent symptoms associated with respiratory issues or general illness.

Improving ventilation for Safety

It is important to also have a system in place to properly ventilate gases or fumes to the outdoors from a commercial heating system or from commercial kitchen equipment. An exhaust system helps to ensure that gases and stale air are vented safely outdoors, but this can only be guaranteed with regular maintenance of the fans, filters, and flue of your commercial equipment.

Design and Installation

It is vitally important that the building design is fit for purpose, that there is adequate space for access to services requiring maintenance, and service points are located away from occupied areas.

When it comes to system design, the correct components need to be selected and the system must be designed with hygiene cleaning in mind. When installing a ventilation system, ductwork access doors must be installed to the correct sizes and orientation and the system must be commissioned to achieve design performance.

We have dedicated Contracts Managers, with a combined experience of more than sixty years in ventilation design and installation, they take all calculations below into account:

• Air flow rates.
• Heating & cooling loads including sensible and latent heat.
• Air shifts according to occupancy levels and their activity or any other special process within the rooms.
• Air supply temperatures.
• Temperature loss in ductwork
• Mass of air
• Air supply principles.
• Heat recovery capacities.
• The outputs of components – heaters, coolers, humidifiers etc
• Design and calculate AHU ducted system.

Our breadth of experience ensures you keep up to date with all current regulations and good practice.

System Maintenance

Aircon Group is a specialist company with the skills, knowledge, and experience across the range of services that are needed for ventilation system maintenance, testing and validation expertise across a range of industries.

Ventilation system maintenance is a proven engineering solution to increase ventilation rates and reduce operational costs. Inspecting ductwork annually costs significantly less than air cleaning alternatives, such as UV systems which are costly to replace.

Poor ventilation in commercial applications can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning, it is important to have an expert inspect and maintain your heating equipment and ventilation system annually. By taking care of and properly maintaining your ventilation system, you’ll have efficient, clean air, heating and cooling that will provide for your employee’s/customers comfort and safety for many years to come.

Different types of ventilation systems require different testing, maintenance and verifications to meet different industry regulatory requirements. Normally maintenance is carried out bi-annually, but this can be increased for high-risk environments.

Well maintained ventilation systems will avoid:

• Spread of airborne bacteria causing illness and disease
• Respiratory difficulty in individuals with asthma
• Health risks associated with breathing combustion fumes created by furnaces and other gas appliances
• Heightened irritability due to poor air quality.
• Inadequate air ventilation in buildings with high moisture levels may contribute to structural degradation

Ventilation maintenance can be complemented with AirSafe, which kills enveloped viruses and bacteria including Covid. Find out more here…