Leading British ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia has welcomed the Government’s ‘Heat & Buildings Strategy’ published ahead of COP 26. The company is delighted the document identifies the importance of air quality and ventilation in the Government’s vision for a greener future.
The strategy includes air quality within its five core principles to guide action in the 2020s and longer-term transformation to Net Zero. Containing its own sub-section entitled ‘Improving Air Quality’, the document recognises the vital importance of reducing the build-up of harmful levels of air pollution within homes. This can occur if ventilation is not considered when improving the air tightness of a home to improve its thermal efficiency. The document states: “Adequate ventilation is required to ensure a healthy indoor environment and prevent creation of increasingly airtight spaces, which may trap pollutants indoors.”
COVID-19 has highlighted to us all the importance of ventilation for good health. The strategy recognises this, and that improving the energy performance of our buildings, without creating airtight spaces, presents, “an opportunity to ensure our buildings provide warm, well ventilated spaces and healthy environments from which people can live and work”.
Lena Hebestreit, marketing manager at VentAxia, said: “When making a home or building more airtight through energy efficiency measures such as insulation it is essential to consider improving ventilation too. While increasing the airtightness of a building reduces the amount of heat escaping, improving its thermal efficiency without sufficient ventilation indoor air quality can deteriorate and occupants can also have ongoing issues with condensation and mould. In existing homes, it is now possible to have the best of both worlds by retrofitting single room
heat recovery ventilation products, like our LoCarbon Heat Save, which recover the warmth from outgoing air to heat incoming air to avoid heat loss, reduce energy bills for households, and provide good indoor air quality for the occupant.” For new build homes, Vent-Axia’s Lo-Carbon Sentinel Kinetic Advance Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR) offers continuous
ventilation with up to 93% heat recovery [in line with Product Characteristics Database (PCDB) data] and is designed with wireless commissioning to encourage best practice and help ensure ventilation performs as designed. In total, 132m kilowatts of energy are saved with the Vent-Axia MVHR range each year. A vital part of an MVHR system is its filters. Inside an MVHR unit, fresh incoming air passes through a filter to remove pollen, debris and products of pollution.Filters up to ISO ePM2.5 70% (F7 grade) ensure even homes in heavily urbanised areas can filter out most impurities, up to and including PM2.5 particles.
For private energy efficiency refurbishments, the Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Heat Save is designed to offer either single room or whole house heat recovery ventilation solution for existing homes. The decentralized heat recovery ventilation unit is ideal for retrofitting, providing extract and supply ventilation to improve IAQ and supply fresh air to rooms as part of a modular system. Achieving up to 84% heat recovery, the Heat Save uses the warmth from outgoing air to heat incoming air to avoid heat loss and to reduce energy bills for households.
For social housing refurbishments, Positive Input Ventilation (PIV), such as Vent-Axia’s LoCarbon PoziDry Pro and Lo-Carbon PoziDry Compact Pro, offer filtration up to ISO ePM2.5 70% (F7 grade). Designed to improve IAQ and prevent moisture build-up within social housing properties, the PIV range provides a highly effective solution to help households and landlords control condensation and mould, as well as offering high levels of air filtration. For commercial buildings, the popular T-series extract/intake fan offers both window and wall options, as well as Lo-Carbon models, it is both durable and reliable. Meanwhile, Vent-Axia’s ACM inline fans also offer installation flexibility as they can be installed with either rigid or flexible ducting and are dimensionally more compact than alternatives, making them ideal for many ducted applications. However, it is the Sentinel Totus² D-ERV that offers heat recovery demand ventilation system that provides an effective solution to both; ensuring good ventilation and so improved IAQ, plus it offers a range of sensors, such as CO2, PIR occupancy detection, humidity or temperature which are employed to determine the room’s air quality, adjusting the ventilation requirements automatically and managing the system’s ventilation rates accordingly.
For further information, contact 0344 856 0590 or sales@vent-axia.com, or visit: www.vent-axia.com
