







A recent report says summertime in the Arctic could be ice-free within a decade thanks to climate change. Over in the USA a ’game changing’ suite of massive lawsuits is being brought on the heads of ‘big oil’ companies for their role in the climate crisis. The UK’s Met Office says 2023 is due to be hotter than 2022, with temperatures forecast to be anything from 1.08C to 1.32C above the pre-industrial average. And summer 2023 signals the start of
a new system of Met Office Heat-Health Alerts that better reveal the heat’s impact, giving people more insight than simple predictions about when heatwaves are due.
While there might be a few outliers who think they know better than climate scientists, people who still think it’s all hype, they’re looking crazier by the minute. This is the future. It’s happening now. The planet’s climate is changing faster than many scientists thought it would. And all this means ventilation isn’t just a nice thing to have. It’s already a commercial essential.
If you’ve ever tried to focus when it’s just too hot indoors, you’ll know how impossible it is to do a good job under unusually hot and sticky conditions. As someone who runs a business, whatever size or type of business it is, this is the time to start thinking about keeping people, products, production lines, machinery and everything else cool.
You could wait, of course, until things become acute. But every hot day, every hot week, every heatwave means productivity suffers. Depending on the products or services your business provides, they could suffer as well.
Food producers struggle to keep things safe and hygienic the hotter it gets. If you run a public-facing business you’ll find customers steer clear when it’s too hot to be comfortable in your premises. What would that do to the bottom line of your restaurant or pub, factory or office, sports centre, gym, holiday home or cruise ship?
If your business involves caring for vulnerable people or looking after animals, their health can easily be threatened by a run of unusually hot days and unpleasantly sticky nights. Holidaymakers need a comfortably cool place to relax and sleep. Take certain electronic products over a given temperature and they don’t work properly. Heat has so many impacts, and they can be very serious.
All this means planning is going to be more important than ever. Getting your ventilation sorted now rather than waiting for things to become acute means a lot. We’re going to see less predictable, more dramatic weather of every kind, and it’s happening right now. Whenever high pressure hot weather systems get stuck above the UK, like the one we’re having right now, living things start to suffer.
Luckily there’s no need to spend an absolute fortune on cooling systems, or on the power they run on. Evaporative cooling is wonderfully simple as well as highly effective and cheap to run. Get it sorted now for a happy hard-working workforce and a pleasant workspace. Create a place visitors feel comfortable, a premises where the products you make and the services you provide aren’t adversely affected by the heat.
To know more, feel free to get in touch with our experts. You’ll find our
evaporative cooling units
an exciting choice: low cost to buy, highly effective, and cheap to run.