| | | In public areas where there Is smoking, employers have a duty of care to employees to ensure that exposure to passive smoke Is minimised. In public places, body heat and odour can be the overriding problem. The average heat output in a pub is about 250W per person. So, for example, a pub with 80 people can be adding 20kW of heat to an enclosed room. Solar heat gain can be a major contributor to discomfort in glazed atriums and winter gardens. An open design window may make matters worse with the ingress of noise and fumes. The activity inside may limit or forbid unattenuated openings to the outside e.g. a factory process or a disco. | | At home, double-glazing and improved home insulation provide higher levels of air tightness than ever before. This is good for our general comfort but often fails to cope with seasonal extremes. Xpelair's wide range of home ventilation solutions now includes heater, cooling and filtration systems designed to provide pleasant air movement that refreshes and combats stale air, remove airborne pollutants at source, and heat or cool on demand. In addition, controllers and Xpelair accessories allow you to design a customised solution for individual applications. | | |
| | | Whether at home or work we all try to create 'just the right atmosphere'. It affects our comfort, our health and is good for business. Achieving that goal will vary by location, time of day, the seasons and the activity. It might be a smoky pub, stale air and lack of air movement in a factory, hygiene concerns in a doctor's waiting room, a cold winter's draught through a shop doorway or an uncomfortable bedroom on a hot summers night. Some points to bear in mind. At work, employers are legally required to ensure that during working hours temperatures are reasonable and comfortable. | | |