Facility managers are looking to cut back on spending while maintaining quality with today’s huge energy expenses due to increased environmental accountability. Controlling the temperature in a large space can be difficult, but air conditioning is not the only way. If cutting costs without losing comfort is what you are going for, a HVLS or …

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For hundreds of years, people residing in warm weather areas have utilized the cooling abilities of slow-moving air. In British India, servants would manually propel overhead circling fans called punkas; large ceiling fans were used in pre-Civil War southern mansions. Southern mansions before the Civil War used large ceiling fans, and servants in British India …

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Once upon a time, it was not uncommon for employees inside large factories to have no choice but to work through unbearable temperature because their employer could not regulate it effectively. The conditions inside of numerous factories began to drastically improve following the 1995 invention of something called a high-volume low-speed (HVLS) fan. Interestingly, the …

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Everyone is familiar with fans, and in fact you probably own one as well, but you may not be aware of the recent advancements available for commercial users. A relatively new, but very effective, method of cooling large warehouse type environments is the utilization of high-volume low-speed (HVLS) fans. The first thing you will notice …

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Warehouses are generally massive, drafty structures where people frequently enter and leave, allowing hot or cold air from outside into the building. The temperature inside the warehouse can have a noticeable impact on the efficiency and work ethic of the building’s employees. If the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold, employees are more …

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