Tag Archives: Customer Comfort

How low can you go? Set backs and old wives’ tales

heat transfer

This post will be a short one because this topic won’t take long to dissect: it’s about set backs, the temperatures we set thermostats to when comfort heating or cooling isn’t required, such as when stores are closed. Quite often I hear concerns from operators or even HVAC technicians regarding night set backs for thermostats. […]

3 Ways to Win Facilities Management Gold During Extreme Weather Events

Olympic gold medal Sochi

Preparation. Skill. Dedication. These are the requirements for those dedicated few: the VPs of Ops and Directors of Facilities responsible for keeping a nation-wide portfolio of sites comfortable, so that the cash registers keep ringing during brutally cold winters and long hot summers. Cue the trumpets: Welcome to the Polar Vortex Olympics. Of course cold […]