HVAC Testing
The performance testing of HVAC systems and other building components is key to determining the effectiveness of specific air distribution systems.
HVAC testing is the process of ensuring that your heating, ventilation and air conditioning system is operating properly and delivering the correct air quantities at the air devices inside your building. This involves cycling the equipment on to verify functionality, measuring preliminary flows, checking fan / motor rotations, adjusting speeds, adjusting dampers and measuring final flows to ensure conformance to design.
Testing is the advancement of an installation from the stage of static completion to full working order to specified requirements. This includes the setting to work and regulation of the systems to design requirements. Commissioning is deemed to be complete when all regulation work is concluded. The process incorporates static pre-commissioning, which is carried out prior to setting to work, balancing and regulation, performance testing and system report upon completion.
Our equipment can be used to conduct full-scale mock-ups of various HVAC systems. It’s large enough to allow airflow patterns to be modelled in three-dimensional space. Flow visualisation and video recording of smoke patterns can also be readily undertaken.
The testing rigs can produce measured flow rates from 10L/s to 3.500 L/s, at static pressure up to 5000 Pa. Air can be supplied at temperatures between 7°C and 50 °C for non-isothermal testing.
Flow Balance will recommend the best practice strategies for designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining your HVAC systems.
