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Labs, offices, studios and light industrial units
Boulder County has an unusual density of buildings where the air is part of the work. Planned maintenance with a record per unit, and ventilation treated as something to measure.
Survey first, schedule second
We walk the site and list every unit with its location, access and condition before anybody prices a contract. A lab with a fume cupboard and a front office on a split system do not need the same interval, and a schedule that treats them alike was written from a floor plan.
- Every visitCoils, filters, drains, belts, electrical connections, safeties, refrigerant behaviour, economiser operation and control settings.
- Every reportWritten per unit: what we found, what we changed, what we left alone and why, and what we expect before the next visit.
- Every yearA view of the whole site — what is near the end, what is fine, and what belongs in next year's budget.
Where most of our commercial work actually is
- Outdoor air rates
What the plant delivers in occupied mode, measured rather than taken from a drawing that may be three tenants old.
- Economisers
Free cooling for a large part of the year in this climate, and the first thing to fail silently. Dampers proven to move, sensors checked, positions recorded.
- Building pressure
Doors that will not close, doors that whistle, and reception areas that take the weather every time somebody walks in.
- Extract and make-up air
Labs, workshops and kitchens that take air out of a building without a deliberate way of putting it back.
- Smoke-season readiness
Knowing which units can be put to minimum outdoor air, who can do it, and how it gets put back. Worth agreeing in writing before it is needed.
- Filtration on rooftop units
Bigger filter sections where the unit can carry them, measured the same way as in a house.
What we look after here
- Labs and test spacesWhere temperature, pressure and air changes are part of the work, and where somebody needs to know when they drift.
- Offices and professional suitesMulti-tenant floors, splits and packaged units, and zoning that stopped matching the layout several fit-outs ago.
- Studios and workshopsExtract, make-up air and equipment sized for a use the building no longer has.
- Light industrialUnit heaters, destratification and an office at the front on a completely separate system.
- Community buildingsOccupied spaces where ventilation is not optional and the work has to happen out of hours.