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Company Name: California Refrigeration
Street Address: 2976 N Palm Ave
City: Rialto
Province/State: California
Country/Region: United States
Zip: 92377
Telephone: 1-866-5731518
Fax: 1
Website: http://californiarefrigeration.com

Air Conditioning and Ventilation

Ventilating buildings is an important part of forming comfortable spaces for work and living. Enhanced building regulations have improved U-values but convective heat losses have increased. Energy consumption has risen significantly due to often unnecessary increase in the use of air conditioning in many buildings. It has also been realised how much energy can be lost as a result of uncontrolled air passing through leaky buildings. A vital part of improving building energy performance is getting the issues right at the design stage. Ventilation and air conditioning systems come in many types but whether natural, mechanical or a combination of the two, they need to have a good degree of local control and meet health, comfort and cooling needs. A crucial factor in energy efficiency is defining the optimum ventilation rate as conditions such as excessive fresh air will cause excessive energy consumption while an inadequate amount of fresh air will see a rapid decline in internal air quality. 5 litres/sec per person is the minimum required rate though the recommended rate is 8 litres/sec per person. An advised strategy is to avoid smoking in buildings or provide separately ventilated rooms for smokers as cigarette smoking can double or quadruple this requirement.