Our Clients Problem
Nowadays, many commercial, retail and office environments are very aware of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and the issues that are associated with it. In part, the challenges we all faced with Covid are part of what is driving this awareness but IAQ also presents problems with staff productivity, customer comfort and the health and wellbeing of all within any given building. Sick Building Syndrome is a very real thing and though the name is something we are only just becoming aware of, the symptoms and effects are something we’ve all been aware of for ages. Some of the most common problems our clients experience are:
- Staff feeling tired and drowsy in the afternoons, leading to staff absenteeism and low productivity
- Customers disliking the air quality in their space, and leaving prematurely
- One person with a cold, or flu, passing that illness on to other occupants
- Lingering odours that just can’t seem to be shifted
- Recurring issues like mould on the walls which seem to come back, no matter what they do to try to remove it
Details of Ventilation Installation
Well, these are symptoms of poor Indoor Air Quality and our client at Bethnal Green Fire Station in London knew them only too well! The solution to the problems described above is to extract the stale indoor air and dilute the space with fresh, filtered air from outside. We installed this Mitsubishi MVHR (Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery) system to their offices and this has alleviated all the above described issues. An MVHR works by bringing Fresh Air from outside the building, filtering it and delivering it in to the indoor space; in this case, a fire station in Bethnal Green, London. At the same time it extracts stale, humid and occasionally odorous air from within the fire station and blows it outside. However, in doing that – and this is the clever bit – the extract air and the fresh air travel through a Heat Exchanger and the heat from the air being extracted is captured and is imparted to the incoming Fresh Air.
