Summer Cooling
Big Ass Fans can save massive amounts of energy by supplementing A/C or replacing dozens of high-speed floor fans.When it’s hot outside and the heat makes its way indoors, you have two options to combat reduced productivity and potential heat stress: crank up the A/C (and watch your energy use skyrocket) or get creative. Whether you have A/C or not, air movement from Big Ass Fans improves your body’s natural cooling mechanisms, keeping you happy, safe and productive. Plus Big Ass Fans can save massive amounts of energy by supplementing A/C or replacing dozens of high-speed floor fans. Here’s how it works.
Stay Cool. Increase Productivity and Safety.
Whether it’s in a sweltering warehouse floor or in a stuffy office, when temperatures rise, productivity plummets. That’s our favourite kind of common sense—the kind that’s backed by science.
The human body fights to keep an internal temperature of 36.1 – 37.2 °C. When people can’t cool down fast enough, heat stress kicks in, slowing workers and putting them at risk of injury or worse. So how do we prevent it?
Fans Cool People, Not Rooms
Cranking the A/C might seem like the way to go, but the only place you’ll be going is the poor house. Trying to cool big spaces by forcing cold air into them is expensive, inefficient, and extremely last century.
Instead, let Big Ass Fans do the hard work.
Our High-Volume, Low-Speed (HVLS) fans move massive amounts of air to cool employees faster and cheaper than air conditioning. The increased airflow Big Ass Fans provide quickly evaporates perspiration from the skin, carrying heat away with it. This circulating air also reduces the thickness of hot, humid air that can stifle the body’s natural cooling mechanisms—making people feel up to 6°C cooler without the need for expensive air conditioning.
Improve AC Efficiency
We all love our air conditioners. That’s obvious. Canadians spend up to 70 percent of their summer electricity bills on air conditioning. In 2022, Canadians spent approximately $1.2 billion on air conditioning and heating equipment, a category that includes central AC units, vents, and other cooling supplies; In the commercial sector, space cooling accounts for anywhere from 10 to 25 percent of energy use, depending on the type of business.
Fans improve the efficiency and effectiveness of air conditioning in several ways. For starters, generating a few degrees of cooling from an energy-efficient fan will allow you to raise your thermostat set point a few degrees and stay just as comfortable. For every degree you raise your thermostat, you can save 3 to 6 percent on cooling costs. Additionally, the temperature isn’t the same everywhere in any building – it’s colder by the vent, it’s hotter by a large window, and so forth. Fans mix the air creating complete uniformity, allowing the thermostat to read the actual temperature in the space, not just the temperature by the thermostat.
Speaking of thermostats, in commercial spaces, no temperature is ideal for everyone, requiring facility managers to set strict rules about adjusting the thermostat, or locking it out altogether. With Big Ass Fans, employees can adjust the speed of the fan without creating a huge energy suck.
CASE STUDY: Read how Local Taco raised their setpoint and saved thousands per year.
The Payoff
From mobile and mounted task fans for pinpoint cooling, to HVLS fans that move large amounts of air efficiently, we’ll custom-tailor an air movement solution for you space. Give us a call at 844-924-4277 to speak with a Big Ass Fans Expert.