AC in offices

keyboard warrior

I dont know about anyone else but the air conditioning they run in all the office i've worked in anywhere seems to be the most powerful AC on the planet. I'm in a room right now that's probably 15 feet by 15 feet and im getting more AC in the ceiling vent than a freezer. WHY! why must office keep the temperature so low in the buildings. Wouldn't it save $$$$ to just turn it up a few degreees. I can't even type because my hands are so cold. please post solution for me! please hurry! ;P (for John Cardinal)

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Gary Kirkham

waaah waaah. It's 81°F and 63% RH in my office. Trade ya.

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James R Twine

Funny you mention A/C... Yesterday my office's building had no AC and today about 1/2 the building has AC. When I got into my cube this morning (~6AM), the thermostat that is less than 4' away from me read 82o! At about 10AM it came down all the way to 81o, but is now back up to 82o. Oh, and the two serious (dual Opteron 4GB and multi-core 3GB) development boxes I have are not helping the cooling situation much, either...! :) I think I would love to be complaining about too much A/C - cold is easier to handle; you can always put on more clothes/layers/protection. Nothing wrong with wearing your jacket (and gloves?) in the office. But there is only so much clothing that you can take off at the office!!! Peace!

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Latinwiz

I couldn't agree more. I wear my jacket year-round in the office. Part of the reason though...my computer sits right under the thermostat, all the PSU heat goes right to the thermometer ;P

Richard Jones

Was your office originally open to the rest of the room? Design may have originally intended that vent cool a larger area. Our building has never had proper HVAC since contruction. It was either too hot, or too cold. Once we found out the sensors were umm... bad, we had them replaced. One read our office at 60C, so kept pumping cold air to help. Kind of beyond help at that point, ythink?:omg: It's been improved since. Not as many fluctuations.

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Shog9 0

jgasm wrote:

Wouldn't it save $$$$ to just turn it up a few degreees.

Not necessarily. They might be stuck with too much cooling capacity (inefficient to run for short periods) or a badly-designed control system. Just take to wearing gloves, coat, and a big long stocking cap. Preferably one with bells on it. Let 'em know you can keep warm while still being cool...

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keyboard warrior

Shog9 wrote:

Just take to wearing gloves, coat, and a big long stocking cap.

But people are starting to find out how crazy i am and that could only makes things even more obvious :-D

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jgasm wrote:

please post solution for me! please hurry! (for John Cardinal)

:laugh: I agree with you 100%, over ac-ing is just insane and wrong. As long as the air is dry and a below 90f it should be fine.

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Dan Neely

James R. Twine wrote:

I think I would love to be complaining about too much A/C - cold is easier to handle; you can always put on more clothes/layers/protection. Nothing wrong with wearing your jacket (and gloves?) in the office. But there is only so much clothing that you can take off at the office!!!

I've had this argument with coworkers before myself. The only room in the building that's cool enough for my comfort is a conference room that can seat ~100, and has the airflow adjusted for comfort while packed.

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John M Drescher

In the 10+ years I have been working in this field I have never been in an office where the heating and AC worked correctly and I have had around 10 different offices in about as many buildings... Because of a design flaw we have this problem in some rooms in our new office. The reason is that the office is divided into 3 or 4 room zones with each zone having a single thermostat. The problems are that some zones the thermostat is in rooms where there is a lot of hot equipment causing the ac to run nearly 100% of the time for the whole zone. The problem with that is people next to the hot room have to wear a coat or have a heater on as their office does in no way generate the same amount of heat as the room with the equipment. On top of that the vents do have dampers on them but the dampers only cover a small percentage of the vent so without some duct work to install valves or some tape to cover the vents we are stuck with this problem in a good percentage of our space.

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VonHagNDaz

jgasm wrote:

I'm in a room right now that's probably 15 feet by 15 feet and im getting more AC in the ceiling vent than a freezer.

I HATE YOU! Seriously, I live at the beach in SC and there is NO AC in the software room. Its a nice 72 in the hall surrounding and through out the building. We finally mounted a thermometer in here, its 89 outside right now, and well, its 81 in here! Also, its maybe 105 in the server room, but at least sales and marketing dont have to sweat while surfing youtube and myspacing... :mad:

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Alduin

And I thought it was just my office. Let's just say that we run the AC even during the middle of winter. At least we don't have clients coming in very often and we can wear coats and such.

El Corazon

jgasm wrote:

please post solution for me!

turn off the AC.... :) Back in the early 90's I worked in an icebox of a computer room. we wore coats in doors, and endless flowing hot coffee.... one of the programmers got fed up, and pulled the plug from the wall (setting off the environment control alarm). :) Very entertaining.

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Stuart Dootson

And in the winter, they'll have the heating on so high that you're stripping down to underwear to keep at the right temperature...

Sam_c

i was sat under the A/C a few months ago before they expanded the office and now im in a very nice spot between two. but they have lowered the output :) so i understand how you feel, coffee going cold fast, cold hands, headachs, bad neck etc etc see if you can get the output changed or just get a load of cloths or a heater ;) they do cotten gloves (thin) which keep the chill off but dont get in the way of typeing, (oh driving gloves would do as well). good luck :)

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ednrgc

Colder temperatures have been found to keep people more alert in the afternoon hours. The offset of the price of AC may be well worth it.