Ventilation manufacturer, Vent-Axia, is taking part in the BESA Ventil8 Day Exchange today (6 November) at The Building Centre, London, to support World Ventil8 Day.
The BESA Ventil8 Day Exchange aims to bring together engineers, contractors, consultant housing professionals and anyone with an interest in healthier buildings to promote and facilitate collaboration between academia, industry and regulatory bodies.
Louise McHugh, Commercial and Industrial Product Manager at Vent-Axia, will join the ‘Healthy air in energy-efficient workplaces: the future of indoor air quality in commercial buildings’ panel debate. The discussion is running from 3.15pm to 4pm and will conclude the commercial ventilation session at the event.
Louise will be joined by three other industry experts and together they will explore how to create healthy and energy-efficient workplaces. They will also discuss how indoor air quality (IAQ) guidelines are evolving and what it means for offices, schools, and other commercial buildings. Progress towards achieving World Health Organisation air quality targets will also be tackled alongside the latest modelling insights, low-energy design approaches and how ventilation strategies can deliver both clean air and energy savings.
The BESA Ventil8 Day Exchange promises to be a day packed with new ideas, knowledgeable discussion and practical solutions around ventilation and indoor air quality. The event supports this year’s World Ventil8 Day theme, ‘Collaborate to Ventilate’. World Ventil8 Day itself takes place on 8 November and aims to raise awareness of the importance of ventilation as a crucial part of enabling health and wellbeing of people.
Louise McHugh comments, “Vent-Axia has supported World Ventil8 Day from its inception, and this year we are delighted to be taking part in the BESA Ventil8 Day Exchange. I am very much looking forward to discussing the challenges, opportunities and solutions for commercial ventilation as part of the debate panel.
“At Vent-Axia we are committed to improving IAQ and delivering healthy, energy-efficient workspaces. Our Sentinel Apex MVHR range exemplifies this commitment, maximising energy efficiency and performance for low-carbon design, while providing excellent IAQ, ultra-low sound levels, and thermal comfort. It has also achieved Passivhaus accreditation, making it the ideal product for customers who require the very best low-carbon heat recovery systems for their commercial buildings.”
The Passivhaus Certified and multi-award-winning Sentinel Apex commercial Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR) range has a class-leading performance number of ≥ 11.5, making it ideal for low and zero-carbon buildings. Offering both wired and wireless sensors and controls, as well as the option of demand-controlled ventilation, constant pressure, or constant volume, users have full control over their indoor environment.
Meanwhile, the Sentinel Apex MVHR offers free cooling through an Intelligent Summer Bypass to mitigate temperatures in warmer months, and features ePM10 50% extract and ePM1 55% supply filters (M5/F7 equivalent) as standard to provide excellent IAQ. The units also include internal frost protection pre-heaters, achieving the best thermal comfort possible at all times.
The Sentinel Apex range achieves the holy grail by delivering the highest level of IAQ and thermal comfort with the lowest energy and noise levels. Units in the range offer up to 93% heat recovery efficiency alongside ultra-low sound levels and extremely low specific fan power (SFP), resulting in a significant performance improvement compared to previous commercial heat recovery units.
Designed to have a low embodied carbon footprint, Vent-Axia has used the CIBSE TM65 data collection methodology to collect accurate, detailed embodied carbon information for the Apex, working from a component level up. This methodology ensures data is comprehensive, accurate, reliable and up-to-date, making it easier for specifiers to focus on designing low carbon sustainable buildings.
UK-manufactured the supply chain involved is as short as possible, it is completely serviceable and maintainable and all components can be removed and replaced if necessary. Apex’s end of life has also been considered ensuring it can be easily re-purposed or recycled, further enhancing its lifecycle credentials.
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