Education
HVAC maintenance for schools and colleges
Server rooms that cannot be allowed to trip, classrooms nobody can work in when it is warm, and plant that can only realistically be worked on when the site is empty.
Where the cooling actually matters
On most education sites the critical load is not comfort cooling — it is the comms and server rooms. Those systems usually run continuously, often on ageing single splits with no backup, and a failure over a weekend or half term is discovered late.
After that come the offices, admin areas, science and IT suites, hall and sports ventilation, and kitchen extract and refrigeration. Each has a different tolerance for downtime, and the maintenance schedule should reflect that rather than treating every unit as equal.
- Server and comms room cooling, including run-hours and rotation where units are paired
- Classroom, office and admin split and VRF systems
- Hall, studio and sports ventilation
- AHU filter, belt and fan servicing
- Kitchen extract and catering refrigeration
- F-Gas leak checking and refrigerant records across the estate
- Condition surveys and asset registers for estates teams
- Replacement plant planned into holiday periods
Term time, holidays and access
Anything intrusive — plant replacement, pipework, ceiling access, roof works, extended shutdowns — belongs in a holiday window, and those windows fill up early. Booking the work in the same term it was quoted rarely works; planning it a term ahead does.
During term we keep visits to what can be done safely and quietly around occupied teaching space: filters, coils, drains, running checks, and anything in plant rooms or on the roof away from pupils. Access, signing in, escorting and safeguarding requirements are set by the site and we work to them.
Budget planning
Estates teams need to know what is coming before the budget is set, not after something fails. A condition survey gives you a written list of what is at end of life, what is repairable, and roughly what order to deal with it in.
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Planning HVAC works around the school year?
Tell us the site, the systems you know about and which holiday window you are aiming at. We will work back from that.