[darkpuppet]

mo_focus,Apr 25 2006, 06:29 PM Wrote: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 :)
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oh, I totally understand what you and Mike are saying... in previous offices, the women always complained about how cold it was in the office... but I learnt to ask for cubicles that were in "cooler" areas of the building. When I was working down on the waterfront last summer, I got a cube directly below an airconditioning vent. It was awesome!

If I had to pick an acronym from your list of HVAC type, I'll pick VAV...I have no clue what it means...

basically, there are diffusers in the suspended ceiling over each cubicle that are fed via a flexible hose that terminates at a main vent. There's a fan back at the main that helps distribute the air.

I complained that it was hot and stuffy, and that's why, even though he wasn't going to do anything about the temperature, he came back with the ladder, checked for obstruction and then went back to the fan to see if it could be adjusted.

It's kind of like going through menapause... I have hot flashes all day long...