The symptoms of Climate Change are now very apparent with the destruction of the Swiss village of Blatten being a very good example writes Chris Dobson. With ongoing increases in global temperatures, more frequent storms and flooding where they are not expected all are signs of continuing Climate Change.
Can industry help asks Doug Hart, chairman, Hart Door Systems. Clearly industry, from manufacturing to storage across the globe, can assess the efficiency of the premises they occupy with the ever open door being the most obvious area of wastefulness.
In busy and intense warehouse or production facilities, leaving doors open is generally seen as acceptable.
The result is costly heated air escapes, the temperature within the building drops and heating struggles to get back to an acceptable level. More often than not when the door is opened again it is possibly left open because operatives find it much more convenient.
For temperature control and energy management, the automatic door such as Hart’s Speedor is the solution. Speedor’s fast-action is the perfect answer. With quality engineering and durability, Speedor high-speed doors will maintain temperatures within a building while keeping energy costs at an acceptable level.
No matter the industrial classification, Hart can manufacture industrial door systems customised to meet specific needs. As an example the Speedor Storm variant is ready for anything the weather can throw at it. Be it a factory, warehouse, storage facility or any kind of plant operation, where doors must be open frequently for people and traffic the Speedor Storm can withstand wind up to ‘wind class 5’ as defined by DIN EN 12424.
Whether it’s access for deliveries, forklifts or people, there are far too many businesses that leave major entrances open for an unnecessary amount of time. The knock-on effect is wasted heating, higher costs and a less than optimal working environment.
Speedor Storm is designed specifically to take care of this. It can help with productivity because entering and leaving can be done more rapidly than non-automatic doors. Further it enhances the working environment because the high-speed operation, even on large doors, means there are no unnecessary open stages.
In turn this lowers energy consumption, important at a time when the cost of energy shows little sign of improving and of course reduced energy use has a positive impact on Climate Change.
Written by Chris Dobson a journalist and retired Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
