This technical blog was written by Randy Niederer, Director of Marketing at Cambridge Air Solutions.
As a manufacturer of industrial HVAC equipment, we know quite a bit about the problems that poor indoor air quality within your facility can have on your employees during hot summer months. Trying to achieve temperature relief within your facility when it is 100° F outside, and even hotter inside, requires more than opening your dock doors and pulling hot air through your facility while running HVLS fans. For most facilities, including ours, the equipment that is running inside the facility provides additional heat gain that can drive indoor temperatures well above the 100° F outside air temperature. When this happens within the facility your productivity, quality and even safety may be affected. Your ability to retain quality employees can suffer as well as your ability to hire new talent can be difficult as well.
Our “Enriching Lives” brand promise is something that we take seriously and strive to provide to all those that we interact with on a daily basis. You know the old saying “Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk?” Well, it dawned on us that we were telling our customers that they should be providing healthy working environments for their hard working people when in reality we weren’t doing it ourselves. How could we expect our customers to take us seriously about IAQ if we didn’t? That’s when we decided to take our own advice and install our ESC two-stage evaporative cooling solution in our own facilities in an effort to provide temperature relief for our manufacturing employees during the hot St. Louis summer months.
What we hope to achieve with our new ESC Two-Stage Evaporative Unit investment
By installing our largest ESC 2-stage evaporative unit in our existing facility in Chesterfield, MO and our new facility in Wentzville, MO we can now provide temperature relief for the team members in our manufacturing facilities. The goal will be to decrease the temperature within our manufacturing environments on the hottest days of summer from what use to be an internal temperature of >100° F to a more reasonable working environment of < 85° F. Keep in mind that those 100° F days only happen about 14 days throughout the summer in St. Louis so we should have excellent IAQ throughout the hottest 90 days of summer.
The process to get the ESC-Series unit installed
The process that we went through to install the unit at our facility is no different than what any other facility would go through. We had to conduct a facility review and analysis and then a system design to provide us with the needed temperature relief required for our buildings. We then had to fabricate the custom HVAC solution needed to meet our requirements and specifications, and finally, we worked with a local HVAC contractor to successfully complete the installs. Due to the size of the unit on our Chesterfield facility it required a crane to lift the unit into place.
Here is a quick time lapse video of the install.
See it for yourself.
If you want to see how well the technology works check out our website this coming spring. We will have a live webcam/page showing how the technology is working. We will have the actual outdoor temperatures, the discharge temperature of the unit and the indoor facility temperature real-time on our website. All in an effort to show that the technology works even in a hot - high humidity climate as St. Louis, MO. You know what they say, "The proof is in the pudding."
At the end of the day we focus on helping leaders in warehouse and manufacturing create healthy working environments for hard working people. If you would like to learn more about how we can help you achieve this goal join us for a virtual or in-person tour where we will talk about our evaporative platform that is creating a better working environment right here at our own facility.