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Individual office temperature
control has been possible for decades. However, these systems have been
so poor & so expensive, that virtually no offices today have independent
temperature control
- Prohibitively extensive – generally $1000 to $3000
per office including installation
- Building owners do not invest hundreds of thousand$ if they cannot
significantly increase revenues
- Tenants do not want to invest significant capital into a building
they may soon leave
- Poor Performance
- VAV (variable air volume) solutions do not allow a “slave”
office to have any more conditioned air than the upstream “master”
office (one master office will limit typically 3-13 slave offices)
- Rarely offer any kind of central monitoring & control, and cannot
help with HW overuse (abnormally high duty cycles), over heating, etc.
- Small, hard to read, hard to program thermostat
- Inflexible
- Do not support after hours HVAC
- Cannot turn off during meetings, travel,
vacation, etc.
- Unable to control individual office humidity and fresh air,
even when air and humidity controls are present at the Air Handler or
VAV to which each zone is connected
The most common "solution"
today is a frustrating lie to employees that costs money and gives no
benefit. Wall
Street Journal
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