Helping Facilities Keep Their Cool
- Topics:
- Interior Planning-Design
- Tags:
- Construction,
- FacilitiesNet,
- Networking,
- Portable Cooling System,
- Telecom & Utilities,
- Telecommunications,
- Telephony
- Source:
- FacilitiesNet
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Overview: A growing number of building operations have become highly dependent on the operation of building air-conditioning systems. Without air-conditioning, computers and telecommunications equipment can overheat rapidly. In the past, maintenance and engineering managers had few options in the event of the loss of air-conditioning. They could distribute fans to building occupants, they could open any operable windows in the building, or they could increase the ventilation rate of outside air. Advances in the design of chillers and system compressors, temperature-control systems, and distribution systems have contributed greatly to these systems’ improved reliability. Conditioned air is supplied to the area where it is needed through flexible duct run through a nearby window. To gain the greatest benefits from portable cooling systems, maintenance and engineering managers must carefully plan the location and operation of the systems. Portable cooling systems are highly flexible units that can be used to back up the building’s air-conditioning system, but they are only temporary solutions. Once the emergency has passed or the special circumstances that required portable cooling are over, the systems must be removed.
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Format: HTML | Date: Mar 2003 | Pages: 1
