Buildings intended for commercial use absorb a significant share of the overall energy utilized within buildings overall, this due to the major impact the commercial sector exercises on economic activities, the high-performance requirements associated with these buildings and the many activities that take place within them.
There are main key areas that an HVAC system can affect:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Air velocity
- Noise
- Fresh Air (Including odor)
Retail
Shops and shopping centers must provide both a comfortable browsing environment for customers, but they must also be safe environments where a huge capacity of people must be safeguarded during a smoke or fire related emergency. A selection of our solutions for the areas within a retail environment are listed below.
Premises for the display and sale of products and services are characterized by fittings, ambientes and accessibility which can vary enormously, depending on the category of goods in question. This multitude of differing scenarios represents a major impact on the internal conditions (most notably for fresh food applications) and the internal loads as regards crowding and lighting; the latter is more often tailored to creating the desired ambience rather than reduced power consumption considerations. Space reserved for air conditioning equipment must necessarily be limited to reserve maximum space for commercial purposes. Furthermore, the equipment needs to be inaccessible to the public whilst simultaneously being user-adjustable, all of which drives customers towards solutions that can be concealed, easily integrated in the fittings, or even centralized as “all-air” systems. The Ecovent products can meet all of these needs.