As a facilities manager for a retail chain what you do impacts your company’s sales revenue and bottom line. As retailers re-imagine and enhance the retail customer experience to boost in-store sales, HVAC and facility management are playing an important role.
Commercial HVAC
Post Renovation Cleaning: Don’t Forget Your HVAC System
Why you need post-renovation cleaning
Renovations create residual dust and debris. If your contracting crew doesn’t do a great job of cleaning up after themselves (and many don’t), people turn to post-renovation cleaning services to get rid of it.
The problem is, there’s dust and debris in places you can’t see (and won’t be removed by a post-renovation clean up crew). That’s because it’s inside your HVAC system. And it’s harming your indoor air quality, harboring nasty odors, and putting a strain on your heating and air conditioning equipment.
Keep reading to find out what to do about it. Or, watch the video:
Read MoreHVAC Maintenance Agreements: A Guide for NYC Businesses
Your HVAC systems are a critical part of the infrastructure you need to keep operating and generating revenue. HVAC maintenance agreements help prevent breakdowns that disrupt your business.
Here’s a quick reference with the facts you need to know. Below you can find links to get more detailed information.
Read MoreDIY Duct Cleaning: Do You Need the Experts?
You have probably heard that clean HVAC ducts help ensure healthy indoor air quality. You may be thinking about doing a DIY duct cleaning project. If you’re watching your wallet and have an industrious spirit, you can try air duct cleaning yourself.
How to Improve Temperature in the Office
Complaints about temperature in the office (being too hot or too cold) are the top grievances from office workers, according to IFMA and a variety of other sources. If your company is trying to boost productivity and get more employees back to the office, it pays to optimize your workplace temperature.
Research has proven that creating the ideal office temperature can improve employee experience, increase workforce output, and reduce mistakes. In fact, the savings and revenue generated by a more comfortable room temperature in the workplace could cover the cost of updates needed to improve the temperature in your office.
Here are 10 ways to make your existing HVAC system work better, without replacing the entire system.
Read MoreRestaurant HVAC: 9 Tips to Get Great Service
Why restaurant HVAC is so challenging
Keeping your restaurant consistently comfortable can be more difficult than for other types of businesses. Here’s why restaurant HVAC is so challenging:
- Varying numbers of people in the space throughout the day
- Doors opening and closing all day long (letting conditioned air escape)
- Kitchen appliances and refrigeration equipment adding heat
- Kitchen exhaust fans sucking air out
Restaurant HVAC is a complex problem with many variables. It’s important to choose a service provider that understands the conditions you work in and how to design and maintain your system accordingly.
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