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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.

Caroline Jacobsson

10 tips on how to secure your building management system

Connected systems for building automation create new opportunities. Everything from basic monitoring and configuration to new services made possible by the functionality and the large amount of data that is usually found in these systems. In recent years, attacks on connected systems have both …

Fabio Polo

How does a chiller work?

The laws of thermodynamics tell us that heat will always move from hotter to colder areas. But the outside air, where the heat is to be dissipated, is often hotter than the air on the inside. How then, does a chiller work? The purpose of a chiller is to cool down a fluid, which in turn can be used …

Åsa Norén-Lundh

This is why induction is important for your indoor comfort

Imagine if you were forced to choose between a room that can’t be cooled in hot weather, or a room with a constant cold draught. You’d be hard-pressed to choose, right? Happily, you don’t have to. Thanks to the physical principle known as induction, there is the option of ventilating and heating or cooling spaces so as to achieve the perfect indoor climate all year round.

Josh Emerson

Returning to the office? Our top 5 ventilation tips

As people are step by step returning to work in offices, health care premises, schools, hotels and restaurants after months of home office work or temporary leave, recent surveys show that as many as 4 out of 10 are concerned about airborne virus transmission at the workplace. So what can we do to …

Federica Serena

The advantages of a system approach

When you are planning an indoor climate ventilation, cooling or heating solution, there are a few key factors that need to be considered. Energy efficiency naturally comes to mind, along with features like reliability, low maintenance costs, ease of installation and ease of use.

Mikael Börjesson

Would we let our kids skip breakfast before school?

We all want to make sure that our children get the best education but one thing we tend to forget is how important air quality, humidity levels and thermal comfort is for children’s learning capabilities.

John Wibrand

From BIM to digital twins for buildings

The importance of data modelling in commercial buildings has started to move beyond mere space and energy efficiency to the real creation of a living, breathing model of an operational building. From BMS and BIM to a digital twin? A building management system, otherwise known as building automation …

Swegon

Andreas Örje Wellstam appointed CEO of Swegon

Swegon’s Board of Directors has appointed Andreas Örje Wellstam new CEO of Swegon from September 1, 2020. Andreas Örje Wellstam, 45 years of age, came from Latour when he started at Swegon in 2012 and has since then held multiple executive positions including CFO and Vice President Business Areas …

Dene Kent

Introducing BlueBox Hyzer Chiller Controls

HYZER is new product that integrates the lastest generation of efficient products together in a system. The control implements state-of-the-art algorithms to reduce energy consumption and preventively optimize operating conditions of all units, pumps and external devices involved in the heating and …

Josh Emerson

Healthy buildings initiative addressed to the European Union

As a clear sign of the growing momentum for knowledge about Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), a number of highly renowned European HVACR (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration) associations have gathered to highlight the importance of this topic, with the aim to include it as a …

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