HVAC systems for hotels are typically required to create the best possible comfort for guests with reliable and efficient technologies.

Customer experience is a priority for any hotel owner as it is synonymous of hospitality. It should be no surprise that customer experience is a defining characteristic of this business. Customer experience is what the hospitality industry is all about.

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Nowadays, consumers have hundreds of choices. When looking for a vacation or a business stay, consumers look at what a property will offer and how comfortable they will feel. Hotels, then, need to make a memorable impression for guests to choose that property and then come back again.

HVAC systems are important for hotels that aim at being responsive to customers’ comfort expectations. Are important for all those who aim to create that perfect comfort which will help make the customer experience memorable. HVAC systems, though, can also have a significant impact on buildings' operating costs and on profits. For this reason, in this article, we want to discuss five aspects that might be worth taking into account when designing an HVAC system for a hotel.

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1 - Hot sanitary water

A hotel definitely needs cooling to create that comfort every guest is looking for.  But it also needs hot sanitary water. Total heat recovery is a great feature a chiller can offer to drastically reduce energy consumption deriving from hot sanitary water production.

Hotels' need for comfort cooling throughout the year can be used to produce hot sanitary water as well. That is possible thanks to the total heat recovery option. Hotels hosting events, for instance, or hotels working with a significant number of business guests using conference rooms and meeting rooms. All those circumstances can require cooling even in the half-seasons and in winter. That allows the use of total heat recovery to produce hot sanitary water all year round, clearly making the most of the heat recovery process during the summer but still benefiting from it during the rest of the year.

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2 - Low noise

Low noise is crucial when designing an HVAC system for a hotel. To ensure guests have the best possible experience. For this reason, the lower is the noise produced by the HVAC system, the better for the occupants. In this case, it might be useful to have the possibility to further reduce the default noise threshold by setting time bands.

That is the case of Daikin TZ range. The EWAD - TZ and the EWAH - TZ, in fact, in addition to offering very low noise values, can also allow facility managers to set the unit noise level to a minimum during specific time bands.

3 - Building load variation

Hotels’ load typically vary depending on the season or in case of particular events. That has a significant impact on the energy efficiency of the building. So, the variation in load demand of the building must be taken into account. In this case, for a more efficient HVAC system, it might be useful to split the load across multiple units of different sizes and control them as if they were a big single unit.

Daikin (iCM), designed to control, sequence and optimize the performance of multiple chillers, is the perfect solution for this type of HVAC systems. The iCM, in fact, harmonizes the way every single chiller in the plant operates. It allows them to reach their goal with minimum effort, both in terms of energy consumption and mechanically. All this with a positive impact on the chillers’ durability and efficiency.

4 - Water flow variation

To make the HVAC system more efficient, it is important to make sure it can vary the water flow depending on the actual load demand of the building, making pumps more efficient. A Variable Water Flow system is the perfect solution to this specific need. It basically modulates the quantity of water flowing through the system, ensuring that pumps work as efficiently as possible, thus reducing their impact on energy consumption.

5 - Monitoring units’ operations

Monitoring the units’ performance, then, is important to reduce costs and make the whole HVAC system energy efficient. Not only it allows to implement of efficiency strategies based on the observation of real data, but in some cases, it allows access to tax incentives. For this purpose, Daikin has recently introduced for its TZ range, the monitoring option. This option allows to constant monitoring of units’ performance in terms of energy consumption and collect useful data.

Reliability of the HVAC equipment, then, is a primary concern for hotels and resorts as it can have a huge impact on customer experience. To make maintenance planning easier and more effective, Daikin offers its remote monitoring service, Daikin On Site (DoS), which allows to collection of operational data and the scheduling of maintenance activities, avoiding units’ downtime.

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