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With temperatures in the UK cooling, Vent-Axia is urging social housing providers to take steps now to tackle condensation and mould. Condensation and mould can have detrimental effects on both housing stock and residents’ health. To help protect residents and meet the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act it is vital landlords tackle condensation and mould problems now. With condensation and mould a persistent problem for many landlords…
Vent-Axia is offering 7 simple tips to help tackle indoor air pollution on Clean Air Day on Thursday, 8th October 2020. Clean Air Day is led by environmental charity Global Action Plan and aims to improve public understanding of air pollution, build awareness of how air pollution affects our health and explain the easy actions we can all take to tackle air pollution, helping protect the environment and our health. This year Vent-Axia is…
Vent-Axia has launched the Multivent MEV family, a new range of mechanical extract ventilation (MEV) and decentralised MEV (dMEV) designed to provide a simple and effective solution to help housebuilders meet the Future Homes Standard. The Standard requires new build homes to have world-leading levels of energy efficiency, including a further lowering of Dwelling Emission Rates (DER) as part of the drive towards carbon neutrality. The new…
Vent-Axia is delighted to announce it has been named as a finalist in the HVR Awards 2020 ‘HVAC Initiative of the Year’ category with its 'COVID-19 Support Campaign'. As the nation locked down, Vent-Axia moved swiftly to inform and support both new and existing customers to improve public health and help in the national response against COVID-19. Vent-Axia’s campaign included the critical supply of ventilation to a number of COVID-19 hospital…
A raft of new evidence on airborne transmission of COVID-19 has made ventilation indoors a top priority. In July over 200 researchers called for the world to take more precautions against the airborne transmission of COVID-19. WHO then published guidance on 9th July which referred to outbreak reports that suggested “the possibility of aerosol transmission”1 of COVID-19 and since then the weight of research has continued to grow. In response…
Vent-Axia has been specified as part of a luxury 1,300m2 new-build family home in Kingswood, Surrey.
Designed to provide privacy, space, luxury and comfort the property spans four floors, with five Vent-Axia Sentinel Kinetic High Flow Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR) units providing ventilation for this extensive project. Featuring a cinema, a basement swimming pool with spa and sauna, a golf simulation room and a fully-…
With the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently changing its stance and suggesting “the possibility of aerosol transmission”1 of COVID-19 in indoor crowded spaces, such as fitness classes, ventilation has further risen up the agenda as an essential means to mitigate transmission of the virus inside. The Government’s recent guidance ‘Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19): Providers of grassroots sport and gym/leisure facilities…
Evaluating ventilation systems, before pubs reopen on 4 July as the COVID-19 lockdown eases, is the first step to take before reopening as laid out in the Government’s new guidance. In ‘Keeping workers and customers safe during COVID-19 in restaurants, pubs, bars and takeaway services’ guidance, published on 24 June 2020, the document states that steps that will usually be needed before reopening include: “Checking whether you need to service…
'Keep Indoor Places Well Ventilated' – This is one of the key principles cited in the UK Government’s COVID-19 return to work strategy1 published on 11 May 2020. The strategy also states ‘Evidence suggests that the virus is less likely to be passed on in well-ventilated buildings and outdoors’ and advises to ‘Use external extractor fans to keep spaces well ventilated and make sure that ventilation systems are set to maximise the fresh air flow…
Vent-Axia has welcomed the Government’s Covid-19 press briefing on 29 April 2020 which cited ventilation as being critical in the fight against the virus. At the briefing Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, said “There is a definite truism across all of the science literature, that ventilation is a most critical part of reducing transmission from respiratory viruses.” Vent-Axia is committed to improving indoor air quality (…