The Swegon blog – Everything about indoor climate

Our experts at Swegon have for years shared their knowledge and skills in the format of enlightening blog posts about ventilation, heating and cooling. With different angles of approach, a wide variety of indoor climate related topics have been presented and explained with sincere engagement and broadmindedness.

Below you find more than 100 blog posts, and we are constantly adding new ones, in our aspiration to build knowledge about indoor climate – within, as well as outside, the building industry. Click on the pre-set tags, or use the filter function under "Explore" to narrow down the number of posts to a selection that is relevant to your interest or that will give you new and useful insights.

Mikael Börjesson

ISH Frankfurt 2025 – what were the trends at the world’s largest HVAC exhibition?

Is it even possible to capture all the impressions from the Frankfurt fairground in just a few sentences? After a couple of days, your phone’s health app has registered around 50 000 steps, and with each and every step, there is something new to see - the amount of impressions are simply immense. …

Tobias Nordström

Heating from the ceiling does work – chilled beams are key

The laws of physics may lead us to think that heating a space from the ceiling is impossible. However, our expert, Tobias Nordström, Product Manager Waterborne Climate Solutions at Swegon, will explain the principle of induction and why climate beams are an energy-efficient, sustainable and …

Caroline Jacobsson

Sustainability must be incorporated in the decision-making process

Embodied carbon is a sustainability parameter that has only recently gained recognition in the building industry. It is likely not a parameter that is well-known across the typically large project organisations, and there seems to not yet be a decision-making process that fully takes it into …

William Lawrance

Cooling coil sizing: why temperature and humidity matters

When selecting cooling coils for air handling units, it is essential to use relevant input data to ensure that the cooling power is appropriately sized. Oversized cooling coils lead to oversized chillers, which can significantly increase the investment cost. This blog post written by William …

Åsa Norén-Lundh

EPBD and IEQ: A path to healthier buildings

The initial scope of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) was founded under another name already in 2002, and has since then evolved into the comprehensive decree it is today. Recently, EPBD has been coupled with IEQ, indoor environmental quality. Our expert, Åsa Norén Lundh, Indoor …

Welat Han

What is there to know about displacement ventilation in an industrial facility?

Factories have come a long way from being dusty and smoky environments where production took center stage, to being light, clean and comfortable workplaces where people are safe and productive. Our expert, Welat Han, Junior Product Manager, describes the evolution of the factory indoor climate and …

Fabio Polo

Standards and certifications create significant customer value

Ensuring quality, safety and performance of products often starts with developing and testing them according to relevant standards. Certifications and labels rely on these standards to assure customers of a product’s value. Think of Fairtrade-certified coffee contra non-certified alternatives, …

Mikael Börjesson

Swegon wrapped - what we should learn from 2024

Exactly one year ago, I looked into the crystal ball to spot the main trends and themes for 2024. Not surprisingly, ‘sustainability’ was a keyword, but the topic has rapidly grown in importance since. When looking towards 2025, I expect us to find the topic expand even further, and we, in the …

Francesco Artusi

Successful use of AI starts with a change of mindset

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. For decades, AI largely remained a niche topic and its potential was understood only by a select few. Suddenly, about a year ago, it became a topic on everyone’s lips, thanks to ChatGPT, DALL·E and similar, which demonstrated capabilities that …

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