Summer Cooling

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.

It’s Simple: Hot Workers Don’t Work.

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 10°F cooler without the need for expensive air conditioning.

Improve AC Efficiency

We all love our air conditioners. That’s obvious. Americans spend up to 70 percent of their summer electricity bills on air conditioning. All that juice adds up to $11 billion a year in the residential sector alone, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That’s more than the yearly operating budget of about a dozen states. And 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.

Go Big or Go Sweat

So HVLS fans are obviously the way to go. But why Big Ass Fans? Because we expertly engineer every one of our fans to keep your people cool, your productivity high, and your energy costs low. All without the noise, hassle, or inefficiency of traditional fans.

SpecLab®: Why Guess When You Could Know?

When you install a Big Ass Fan, you’ll feel the improvement the minute you turn it on. But what if you could see the impact before you even bought it?

With SpecLab®, our proprietary airflow analysis software, you can get a custom preview of exactly how our fans will transform the comfort and productivity of your space. Not only that, but our airflow experts can show you what fans and installation locations will provide the best airflow before you make your purchase.