Design and Engineering
Most problems we are called in to fix on running plants started on the drawing board. An undersized coil, a return air path nobody thought about, a pressure cascade that only works on paper. Our design team exists to catch those things before a single duct is fabricated.
We work in three stages, and clients can bring us in at any one of them.
Concept design
We look at the building, the process and the brief, then set the basic approach: what kind of system, how many zones, where the plant sits and roughly what it will cost to build and run.
Basic design
Heat load calculations, air quantities, filtration levels and equipment sizing are firmed up. For cleanrooms and other critical areas we fix room classifications, pressure differentials and air change rates at this stage.
Detailed design
Final layouts, duct and pipe routing, sections, schematics, control philosophy and a complete bill of quantities that contractors can price against without guessing.
What we use
- Heat load and psychrometric calculations for every zone
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to check airflow patterns, dead zones and temperature spread before construction
- Coordinated drawings that account for structure, electrical and process services
- Equipment selection based on lifetime running cost, not only purchase price
Why it pays to involve us early
- Fewer changes once work starts on site
- Better energy performance, because the system is sized for the real load
- Cleaner handover documents for validation and audits
- One team answerable for the design, instead of several consultants pointing at each other
If you already have a design and want a second opinion, we also review drawings and specifications prepared by others.
