Breathing Buildings, a provider of controlled natural and hybrid ventilation systems, is celebrating the upcoming World Ventilation Day (#WorldVentil8Day). World Ventil8 Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing of people.
Taking place on 8 November 2024, World Ventil8 Day was initiated by a group of researchers and professional bodies who are passionate about the importance of ventilation.
This year, the theme is ‘Enabling Action’ and it aims to spread the word about all that is good in ventilation and how to help people to improve ventilation in their buildings whether it be a home, a school, a workplace or a social space. It also aims to highlight ventilation’s role in healthy buildings and a healthy life.
Breathing Buildings is keen to support World Ventil8 Day. Since the company was founded, it has been dedicated to energy efficient ventilation which improves indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort. Prior to the pandemic there was already an increasing awareness of how indoor environments impact our health and wellbeing.
In the UK, ventilation guidance for schools already existed in the form of Building Bulletin 101 (BB101). The last revision, the 2018 edition of BB101, ‘Guidelines on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools’ looks at the key design elements of modern ventilation systems in schools. The document sets out requirements for schools to improve ventilation to create a healthy and comfortable environment that will help improve children’s learning outcomes.
Louise McHugh, Product Manager at Breathing Buildings, comments, “Breathing Buildings is delighted to support this year’s World Ventil8 Day. Since it was founded, Breathing Buildings has been committed to energy efficient ventilation that improves IAQ and thermal comfort. Over the years, we have helped a raft of schools improve their learning environments.
“Providing excellent thermal comfort and enhanced IAQ, our hybrid ventilation is designed to suit a diverse range of commercial and public buildings with high heat gains, such as schools, colleges, leisure centres, offices, theatres and even churches. Our latest innovation, the NVHRe, raises the bar on energy efficient ventilation, marking the next step in hybrid ventilation technology.”
Breathing Buildings is committed to improving IAQ and enabling action by helping schools improve their ventilation and indoor environments. For example, Breathing Buildings supplied ventilation to High Point Academy, a secondary school for students with complex learning difficulties in Wednesbury, West Midlands. The 90-pupil school features classrooms that are designed to be safe and calming for autistic pupils, and includes a range of specialist rooms that enhance the children’s experience.
In addition to this specialist learning environment, the two-storey school benefits from Breathing Buildings’ NVHR (Natural Ventilation with Heat Recycling) hybrid ventilation units that help provide good indoor air quality and keep the school warm in winter and cool in summer. This boosts comfort and health which is essential for the pupils’ learning and wellbeing.
But it is not only schools that can benefit from hybrid ventilation technology. For example, Breathing Buildings supplied ventilation to ECO MEP’s carbon negative headquarters in Ashford, Kent. Recently purchasing the building, ECO MEP is a mechanical and electrical contractor that focuses on delivering lean, sustainable solutions to commercial clients. In line with these values, its objective was to ensure its own new offices were a beacon of sustainability, and so specified Breathing Buildings’ innovative NVHRe Natural Ventilation with Heat Recycling and Heat Recovery to provide energy efficient ventilation.
– Breathing Buildings’ NVHRe recently won ‘Commercial/ Industrial Ventilation Product of the Year’ category at the prestigious HVR Awards 2024. Breathing Buildings is currently shortlisted in the Energy Saving Awards and the ECN Awards for supplying ventilation to the ECO MEP project.
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