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MAlby7,Apr 25 2006, 08:40 PM Wrote:I am taking air conditioning and refrigeration in school.  When you design a system you design for anywhere between 70 - 75 degrees fahrenheit, depending on the application.  What might be happening in your office is poor airflow and the relative humidity might be too high. 

With humidity you can have 75 degrees and low humidity and it will feel cool.  You could have 75 degrees and high humidity and it will feel like 85 degrees.  The more the water your body produces evaporates off your skin the cooler you will ultimately feel.

Unfortunately Women make the design temperature climb to 75 because they're always cold.
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very well said Mike. Puppet, that was my previous job. I used to be a facility manager/operations manager. So let me tell you some tricks of the trade

Ashre standards are between 70 to 75F or 21 to 24C, it all depends on where you work. Unfortunatly most office places are full of women and as mike said, women make the design temp climb over 75F. Guys usually don't complain about temps, women do. So be a man and suck it up ;) j/k

So you ask yourself what can I do?

Well there are couple of things you can do to bring the temperature down.
1- You need to get your manager and everyone else on the floor to agree on a set temp and forward that to your facilities. All should agree on 21C or 72F.
2- Reguest a stuffy complain rather then hot complain. When you are hot they will measure the temp and tell you its within range. If you complain about the stuffy room, they will have to bring more air in to the room and it will cool it off.

Also let me know what kind of HVAC system do you have? Do you have Radiators on each floor? VAV's? FBP? try to find out what you have and i might be able to show you couple of more tricks to get the desired temp you want.


Let me know,

Thanks, Management :)