HVAC

Underlying GHD's Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) designs are the twin pillars of advanced technology and ecologically sustainable design.

Projects cover:

• commercial office buildings
• government buildings
• hotels, resorts and conference centres
• residential buildings
• industrial building
• research, education and laboratory facilities
• hospitals and health care facilities
• sports and entertainment facilities
• museums and performing arts centres
• computer data centres
• airport and aviation facilities
• tenant engineering for all project types

Our projects evoke much interest from clients and the community, yet GHD's inputs are largely hidden. Nevertheless, they are vital elements of a quality building and influence comfort, productivity, communications efficiency, fire safety, maintainability, capital and operating costs.

Crucial to building services is the coordination of all systems to accommodate them efficiently while maximising usable space.

As well as conventional HVAC design, we draw upon our advanced technology and sustainable design to provide services including:

• life cycle costing of system options
• building envelope and heat transmission simulations
• computational fluid dynamics analysis of complex air and smoke flows
• lighting simulations
• visual and thermal comfort analysis using Percentage of People Dissatisfied Index
• passive and active systems for energy efficiency including natural ventilation and daylighting
• engineered smoke control systems
• site generation of energy including photovoltaics, wind turbines, fuel cells, cogeneration, geothermal heat pumps and battery storage

For more information, contact:

Ian Lindquist  [tel 61 2 6245 1904]  [email]