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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.

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Anders Jakobsson

Why the casing of air handling units is critical for a healthy indoor climate

To achieve a good indoor climate with low operating cost, the ventilation solution must be designed and installed in a proper way so that energy losses are minimised and air quality preserved. This means that it must be airtight and well insulated but also be formed to allow cleaning. Something …

Martin Ottersten

Why you should eliminate all monotonous noise in your building

Sound can be a source of pleasure and well-being, if it is the right kind, like beautiful music. But research has found that the wrong kind of sound, or noise, is also a major cause of health problems. According to the World Health Organization, western Europeans are losing millions of years of …

Bastien Stocq

Things to consider when choosing an AHU for small premises

When choosing an air handling unit (AHU) for smaller premises, such as retail areas in an otherwise residential building, there may not be an assigned technical room, and the premises may be on the ground level. This will put some special requirements on the ventilation solution. In this article, …

Martin Ottersten

A Wooden Air Handling Unit – Redefining the Industry?

Considering todays many challenging sustainability targets, it is no surprise that people wonder why certain products look or work the way they do. However, when alternative solutions are explored, factors such as functionality or lifespan, often turn out to be significant showstoppers. What if …

Jim Collings

From Complex to Clear: A Smarter Way to Deliver Indoor Climate

When a major retail space at Lakeside Shopping Centre was due for a new tenant fit-out, the brief was clear: create a comfortable, efficient indoor climate with long-term performance in mind. But the path to achieving this was anything but straightforward.

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 …

Mike Ward

The benefits of a decentralised solution for air handling units

Designing an HVAC solution for a building is not something that follows a pre-defined process. As with many elements of design, the decisions are complex, and affect things outside of the system being planned. One of the first choices to consider is whether to opt for a centralised or decentralised …

John Lindblom

The refurb kit revolution

Knowing what we know about buildings and the building industry, we realise that there are numerous sustainability choices a real estate owner has to make. Windows, lighting, water-usage, ventilation and so much more have to be considered from an operational carbon perspective, and now also from the …

Swegon

New GOLD and SILVER C EPDs have been published

An addition of 6 Environmental product declarations (EPDs) for GOLD and SILVER C air handling units are now published. They are all verified by Bureau Veritas and available at the EPD international website.

William Lawrance

The future for air handling units under the new F-Gas regulation in Europe

As a company, we have recently focused on the topic of sustainability through the lens of our expertise in heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC). However, as a global designer and supplier of complete indoor climate solutions we can be affected by external factors in different ways. What may be …

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