Cooling and Comfort In Commercial Buildings

The use of comfort cooling is growing rapidly around the world.  Most landlords of commercial premises are very aware of the importance of being able to provide good indoor climate conditions for existing and new tenants.  At the same time, occupants are becoming increasingly aware of the requirements that can be posed in respect of the indoor environment.

The indoor environment consists of many parameters.  However, the one that an occupant of an office building notices immediately is the thermal climate.  It has long been accepted that the indoor temperature must not be too low: increasingly, there is pressure that it should not be too high, either.

Various types of comfort cooling system are being installed, both in new building projects and in connection with conversion or renovation.  This provides an overall review of the systems used today in order to distribute cooling throughout a building.  Note, however, that the methods of ‘producing’ the cooling are dealt with only in brief.

The prime requirement in respect of the indoor climate in a building is that room temperature should be at a comfortable level, regardless of the weather conditions outside.  In addition, the indoor air must be acceptably clean, lighting and acoustic conditions must be good etc. Nevertheless, the first and foremost condition for a building to be usable at all is that the indoor temperature is acceptable.

As the requirements in respect of room temperatures are given, the capacity of the cooling system is determined largely by the amount of heat that it must be capable of dealing with.  In general terms, the greater the heat surplus, and therefore the greater the capacity of the cooling system, the more difficult it is to produce an indoor climate that is good in all respects.  It is therefore always important to attempt to design the building in general so that there will be only a low heat surplus.  To do this requires, in turn, an overall approach to the building, to its services systems and to the activities carried on in it.

The commonest way of producing cooling is to use conventional electrically-driven mechanical cooling equipment.  However, alternative methods include evaporative and desiccant cooling.  Larger installations may also have cooling produced by thermally-powered absorption chillers.  District cooling systems have been built, or are being built, in a number of larger towns.  In principle, they operate in the same way as district heating systems, except that it is cold water, rather than hot water, that is distributed.

Looking for a fast and fair company to work with for your Air Conditioning repair or replacement needs?  Give Aaron’s Mechanical Services a call and let us help you get cooled off! Call 623-388-4436

Presented by;
Aaron’s Mechanical Service
623-388-4436
info@aaronsmechanicalservice.com
http://aaronsmechanicalservice.com