Climate4Hire Ltd, a Coolmation Group Company, has invested in larger premises, greater product diversity and expanded its network of hire support services to offer even better cooling solutions and faster response times in answering clients’ individual temporary air conditioning requirements.
With cooling loads in buildings steadily rising due to increased staffing levels, heat generating equipment, and servers; many air conditioning systems are now struggling to cope causing a year round need for temporary air conditioning. Air conditioning is essential in most commercial buildings today and is critical in heavily loaded server rooms, comfort applications within modern sealed buildings, operating theatres and other temperature dependant operations where air conditioning failure puts businesses into jeopardy.
Matching temporary air conditioning to a client’s application is key to ensuring the cooling system works effectively. Considerations that need to be taken into account include: cooling capacity required; the location, that it can fit where it’s needed; the cost of hiring, how much the client can afford to pay versus the cost of doing nothing; and the system’s running costs.
However, the size of the problem will have major bearing on the temporary air conditioning equipment selected. For smaller applications one or two wheel in,plug in mobile air conditioners or evaporative coolers are ideal.
However, large open plan office areas or server rooms provide opportunities for a more efficient method of temporary air conditioning, one in particular which is generally only available from a temporary air conditioning specialist like Climate4Hire. This solution comprises a number of stylish stand-alone easily moveable chilled water fan coils which are interconnected with small diameter high pressure hose to a water chiller located outside. Via a supply of chilled water, each fan coil reduces the heat in a room by 10 – 20kW, with each fan coil unit simply plugging into an adjacent 13A socket, taking less than 2A.
With this ac solution it is easy to see that a number of fan coils connected together can deal with an extremely high temporary air conditioning load. The outdoor chiller size is then simply matched to the total number of fan coils installed. This type of system precisely mimics an installed one with room temperature automatically controlled via chilled water temperature. Meanwhile the chiller only runs when room conditions require it making this type of temporary air conditioning an energy efficient choice.
Ken Mitchell, Climate4Hire’s Managing Director comments “Requirements for temporary air conditioning are becoming less seasonal. This is much to do with the installed air conditioning capacity which just wasn’t designed to cope with increasing loads being imposed by bigger and more powerful servers, highly populated offices and the incremental increase in business machinery. At the height of summer, air conditioning systems, which are just about managing these increasing cooling demands, could buckle under the extremes of both load and ambient temperature.
In addition, the F-Gas Regulation and the phase out of R22 means there is a considerable amount of air conditioning replacement currently taking place. Temporary ac systems are therefore required during the replacement period, this is key in critical cooling areas, such as server rooms which have to remain air conditioned.”
Whether a planned installation or emergency requirement, Climate4Hire, with its fully trained delivery and installation teams, is well placed to deliver and install on time the right temporary air conditioning for a client’s needs. Building owners, FMs and contractors can be assured of even better cooling solutions and faster response times from Climate4Hire’s newly stocked expanded premises in Leicester, Bristol and Luton, as well as Manchester and Ringwood (Hampshire) depots.
Further information call freephone 0800 970 3315 or visit www.climate4hire.co.uk.
