10 Tips For Effective Air Conditioning Design and Planning

If you’re having new premises built, or are moving to a new workplace, or are modernizing or upgrading your current heating and ventilation system, then you’ll want to make sure that you have the right air conditioning design for your needs.

Here’s what you should look for.

1. You’ll want the air conditioning company to work alongside your existing builders and other contractors. This will help to ensure that your system is fitted properly and that all people working on your project know what’s going on.

2. You’ll want to choose your heating and ventilation system based on your needs, and not price. The cheapest system might not do all you need it to do, and you could find that you need to replace it much sooner than you’d anticipated.

3. The air conditioning system you choose will need to meet both your present and future needs. You might have plans to add new rooms to your hotel or change the use of some of your existing rooms.

4. You’ll also want to make sure that you get value for money. You won’t want to pay extra for features and facilities you’ll never need and never use. You can use the design and planning stage to work out your exact needs.

5. By having a choice of leading manufacturers, you can make sure that you get what you need, rather than the system the supplier wants to sell you. A design or model that isn’t right for you will prove to be more expensive in the long term.

6. It’s important that your fitters use the CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers) guidelines to help make sure that you get the system you need. You might not know exactly what capacity or features you need.

7. Whichever air conditioning system you choose, you’ll want it to be energy efficient, so that it costs less to run, and is better for the environment, whilst still meeting the needs of your staff and customers.

8. The amount of noise produced by your air conditioning system might be an issue for you. A system for a factory might not need to be as quiet as one for a hotel, a shop, or a conference room.

9. You’ll want to make sure that the system you choose is futureproofed, and that if you need to expand the capabilities, you can do. You won’t want something that’s going to be obsolete soon.

10. By having your air conditioning system professionally installed, you’ll know that it’s working properly and that you’ll be able to get the most from it. Also, if it needs adjusting, or repairing, it will have been fitted in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations.

Now you know more about the importance of heating and ventilation, and why you need to get it right the first time, perhaps now is the time for you to think more about air conditioning design.