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And although this will give great energy savings, the wellbeing of occupants will suffer as rooms overheat.. How can we keep offices at a comfortable temperature?.Keeping heat gains down in summer will help reduce the cooling load of the building, and give the cooling systems a fighting chance of keeping us at a comfortable temperature.
Social distancing measures will help reduce internal heat gain, as there will be fewer people using fewer computers in each office.Blinds on the windows can help to reduce heat gain from the sun.And making sure that the lighting controls are working properly can reduce the lighting load (which also creates heat) during bright days..
Desk fans help to reduce the perceived temperature by around 2. o.C, but the additional air movement increases the risk of particle movement.
So desk fans are not recommended, except in rooms with good airflow and high air changes.
A simple, but effective, approach might well be just to have a relaxed dress code.As a result, demand for labs is growing rapidly.
In Cambridge and Oxford for example (two of the UK’s main life science hubs), demand for labs now outstrips available supply by nearly a hundred to one.Alongside this growth, improvements in IT, staffing challenges, and new ways of working, now mean that remote or flexible working is commonplace.
For life science developers and companies this has created a major opportunity: converting increasingly vacant or cheaper office space into labs – saving time and money.This may appear to be the perfect solution, however there are additional challenges to consider..
(Editor: Top Air Purifiers)