A thoughtful and highly engineered system for safe, breathable air
Mechanical engineers at R.E. Dimond and Associates follow The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standard 62.1, or “Ventilation for acceptable indoor air quality.” This standard, combined with our decades of experience designing building ventilation systems, informs our approach to safe, comfortable, and effective buildings.
A complex system of vents hidden in plain sight
Like good drainage systems, ventilation systems are rarely seen, heard, or noticed. But building ventilation system design includes complex formulas for airflow, breathing zones, outdoor airflow, zone air distribution, and effectiveness formulas.
Our engineers measure ventilation rates based on square footage, space usage, and occupancy rates to determine a building’s ideal ventilation rate for each room.
In addition to the ASHRAE-informed formulas and values, R.E. Dimond and Associates engineers are keen to observe air quality for occupants that works for them and their needs.
Professional ventilation system design helps:
Protect sensitive areas, such as laboratories in healthcare of university facilities
Reduce contaminants of concern (COCs) for sensitive groups or in industrial facilities
Measure safe or maximum thresholds of air pollutants
Maintain airflow requirements for freshly cycled outdoor air or humidity levels
Ventilation systems that serve every system and occupant
Ventilation systems have a low resource consumption rate compared to the air conditioning and heating equipment they often work in tandem with. But poorly designed ventilation systems reduce the effectiveness of these systems, wasting your money and natural resources.
If you’re considering switching heating and cooling systems, you may need a conclusive review of your ventilation systems to ensure they’re code-compliant, energy-efficient, and operating as designed without undue strain or wear.
Get an ASHRAE-certified mechanical engineer to review your ventilation design
One of our mechanical engineers can review your building’s airflow, ventilation systems, and proposed designs.
We can also review air quality for inflow, outflow, stability, contaminants, LEED certification requirements, building codes, and health and safety.
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