International. The company Sodeca has referred to the importance of investing in air conditioning in educational centers and how to do it sustainably with ventilation systems with heat recovery.
According to Carlos Martínez, environmental engineer and head of Training and Knowledge Transfer at the company Sodeca, the objective of this type of investment must go further and ensure thermal comfort throughout the duration of the courses while maintaining good indoor air quality in the classrooms.
"In schools, where the concentration of people is high, the ventilation system with heat recovery allows us to maintain a healthy environment and reduce the demand for air conditioning at the same time," explains Martínez. In other words, heat recovery systems not only maintain a correct temperature in the classrooms, but also filter and renew the air, improving the well-being of students.
The expert explains it with a practical example: "Let's suppose that there is a temperature of 33 °C outside a building and 23 °C inside. If we have a heat recovery unit, the outside air (filtered and treated) enters the interior of the room at about 26 °C. This, in addition to improving indoor air quality and the health of the occupants, will lead to significant energy and economic savings".
Sodeca's RECUP/EC-BS and RECUP/EC-H models are heat recovery systems that allow this treatment to be applied in buildings with large air flows, such as schools.
In this type of project, sustainability is usually one of the axes that institutions mark as a priority. In this sense, Carlos Martínez details that the heat recovery solutions offered by Sodeca consist of ventilation systems "designed precisely to be energy efficient, which reduces the carbon footprint of schools". The reason is simple: "By recovering the heat from the air that is expelled and transferring it to the air that enters, the need for traditional air conditioning systems is significantly reduced."
These energy savings also have an impact, of course, on the investment in air conditioning being more profitable in the long term. "The energy savings that are achieved are
and, in addition, the improvement in air quality has direct benefits on health and academic performance. It is an investment that pays for itself quickly,"
explains engineer Martínez.
