While air quality isn’t something that’s often considered by workers, it’s one of the most powerful ways that workers suffer lasting health impacts. Breathing just a little bit of pollution day after day causes health issues that last for decades. On top of that, industrial ventilation ensures that your workers are comfortable and cool during the summer and in hot working environments during winter too.
Here are five things to remember when you’re trying to keep your workers and the environment well ventilated.

Have An Expert Assess Things

When you’re trying to put together an HVAC system to handle your industrial ventilation needs, you should ask an expert. While you might be able to make a general assessment on your own, there are tools and tricks that professionals in the HVAC world know that you may not.

Make sure your warehouse can be separated into different zones if you have different temperature needs. This way you’ll ensure that you don’t have multiple blowers running nonstop at potentially conflicting temperatures.

An HVAC pro can take a quick assessment and tell you what your needs are for heating and cooling. If you have areas that stay unoccupied or is filled with automated systems, then they can set up heating cooling that makes sense. An expert will know how to make things optimal for equipment operation, product storage, or to keep your staff comfortable and productive all day long.

Setting up a series of temperature zones gives you more control and sets you up to have a more optimized temperature environment.

Have Smart Thermostats

As more elements of our daily lives are automated and controlled wirelessly, our heating and cooling needs are no exception. Having regulated warehouse temperature based on occupancy and activity is a great way to manage your heating and cooling needs. As you add more cubic space in your warehouse, your needs are going to expand.

If you don’t have to worry about the comfort of workers for 16 hours a day, you shouldn’t be heating and cooling for them during those hours. If you have programmable thermostats, you can automatically turn things off when no one is around. With interfaces built for smartphones and desktop devices, you can manage your temperature with the few taps or clicks.

You can set for complex needs, overtime work, or weekend adjustments as your workload changes. If you have products or materials with specialized temperature needs, you can change things temporarily until those items are moved or shipped to a new location.

Occupancy Sensors Save Cash

As mentioned above, occupancy plays a big role when you’re worried about the temperature of your warehouse or space. Occupancy sensors solve a lot of the common issues that companies face when trying to heat and cool their space. Turning off the lights or the HVAC system as people leave the space could end up saving a lot of money over time.

Fluorescent or LED lighting is ideal for these kinds of sensors. Since you’ll need a fast response and quick start-up to keep from delaying the work that your staffers want to do, avoid metal halides.

Sensors like this should be connected with temperature control since most light emits heat.

You’ll save potentially thousands a year when you’re able to keep the lights off as you don’t need them. Turning off lights that you don’t need ensures that you’ll be able to lower your carbon footprint as well.

LED lighting can be harsh, so make sure you get multiple lighting to mix frequencies. LED is typically one frequency and long exposure to those lights causes some people to have headaches. Try a few schemes out to see hat your staff prefers before you commit to one.

Use Earth Science To Your Benefit

As most people learned in school, heat rises. That means your hot air is going to go to the ceiling as soon as it leaves the ground floor. If you have hot air in your warehouse, then you should push it back down during cooler months and suck it out during warmer months.

When it comes to temperature control, hot air near your thermostat is going to change how your HVAC system responds. If you put your thermostat next to your hottest piece of equipment, it’s going to impact your temperature. You’ll always be a little off if you place it in the wrong spot.

Ceiling and exhaust fans can help you manage and disperse your air evenly. Recirculating air helps to smooth and even out the temperature of your warehouse. If you’re able to keep the air moving around, you’ll be able to save money because your temperature will reflect the actual feeling in the space.

Rooftop Units Need To Be Checked

While most warehouses put their HVAC units on their rooftops, there are a whole host of problems that come with that. The place where your HVAC system is going to be under the most amount of stress.

If your unit is out there on a hot summer day, made out of metal, and painted a dark color, it’s going to be under stress. On top of that, if there is a dusty factory nearby or a storm that blows debris into it, your HVAC unit is going to work to kick that dust out.

All year round, your rooftop units are going to struggle to stay clear of debris and running smoothly. Make sure you have it inspected by a professional regularly to keep the ventilation ducts clear and your staff happy.

Industrial Ventilation Improves Productivity

When you have goo industrial ventilation, you’re able to keep your workers happy and healthy. You also keep products and materials free of problems that come with pollution and impurities.

We provide air-conditioning systems for factories, production plants and machine rooms. All systems are specifically chosen for the individual operating environments. The discharge air requires attention as well. Air released into the environment must be clean. We have a wealth of engineering know-how regarding the special requirements of industrial facilities. We can take care of the entire process from the planning and design to the installation, commissioning and maintenance.