Commercial air conditioning in across Heathrow, West London and the M4 corridor. Daikin D1 and Mitsubishi installs, VRF systems, F-Gas repair and service. Same-day call-out.
Arctic Cooling designs, installs, services and repairs commercial air conditioning in across Heathrow, West London and the M4 corridor. We’re based around Heathrow, in the Thames Valley, and we self-deliver the work with our own engineers — approaching 40 of them — rather than passing it down a chain of subcontractors. That means one firm is accountable from the first survey to sign-off, and one number to call when something needs attention.
We work with facilities managers, main contractors and building owners on live commercial buildings, not domestic jobs. If you run an office, a hotel, a warehouse, a data centre or a plant room that has to stay cool while people are working in it, this is the page for you.
As a Daikin D1 partner — Daikin’s top installer tier — we can offer extended manufacturer warranties most installers can’t. That matters on commercial kit you need to last.
VRF and VRV air conditioning
variable refrigerant flow systems for multi-room and multi-floor sites. One outdoor unit serves many indoor units, each controlled independently, with heat moved around the building rather than wasted. This is the standard choice for offices, hotels and larger commercial fit-outs.
Split and multi-split systems
for single rooms or a handful of areas where a full VRF system would be more than the site needs.
Close control and precision cooling
tighter temperature and humidity control for server rooms, comms rooms and other spaces where the equipment matters more than the people.
Ducted and cassette units
where the finish matters and the kit needs to sit quietly in the ceiling, out of the way.
This trips a lot of people up, so here it is plainly. VRF stands for variable refrigerant flow. It’s a system that varies how much refrigerant it sends to each indoor unit, so it only uses the energy the space actually needs at that moment. VRV means exactly the same thing — it’s Daikin’s brand name for their VRF systems. So VRF and VRV are the same technology; only the badge changes.
A multi-split system also runs several indoor units off one outdoor unit, but it doesn’t modulate the way VRF does, and it tops out at a smaller number of units. For a small suite of rooms, multi-split is often the sensible, cost-effective answer. For a whole floor, a whole building, or anywhere you want individual control and better running costs across a lot of zones, VRF is usually the better long-term call. We’ll tell you which one fits your building rather than selling you the bigger system by default.
A commercial air conditioning installation starts with a proper survey. We look at the building fabric, the heat load, how many people use each space and when, where the plant can go and how we route pipework and condensate without tearing the place apart. Then we specify to that — the system is sized and designed around your building and its occupancy, not pulled off a shelf.
Most of our installs go into buildings that are already in use. We phase the work around occupied floors, work outside trading hours where that’s the sensible thing to do, and keep the disruption to what’s genuinely unavoidable. You get a programme up front so you know what’s happening on your site and when. Refrigeration, ventilation, electrical and pipework are all handled in-house, so there’s no waiting on another trade to turn up before we can finish.
The equipment on a commercial system has to last years and run hard, so the warranty behind it matters. Arctic Cooling holds Daikin D1 status — Daikin’s top installer tier — which means we can offer extended manufacturer warranties on Daikin kit confirm exact Daikin programme wording] that a general installer can’t. We’re also a Mitsubishi approved partner, so we can specify and support Mitsubishi Electric systems to the same standard.
Those accreditations mean the manufacturer has trained and vetted our engineers directly. If a component fails inside the warranty period, you’re covered for longer, and you’re dealing with people the manufacturer already recognises rather than a general installer. You can see the full list on our accreditations page.
Available on all D1 installs
We service and repair air conditioning we’ve installed and systems we haven’t — inherited kit, mixed estates, whatever’s already in the building. Arctic Cooling is F-Gas certified, so any refrigerant work is carried out and logged the way the regulations require. That’s not optional on commercial systems, and using an engineer who isn’t certified can leave you non-compliant.
Commercial air conditioning repair is faster when the people fixing it understand the whole system, which is where doing our own refrigeration work pays off. Regular servicing keeps a system efficient, holds the manufacturer warranty valid and catches small faults before they become breakdowns. Most commercial systems should be serviced at least once a year, and more often where the system runs continuously or the environment is demanding. A planned maintenance contract is the way to keep on top of that, and contract clients get priority response and, where agreed, up to 24/7 cover.
Ensuring peak performance and regulatory compliance for every commercial environment.
We install and maintain air conditioning airside at Heathrow — a live airport, under security clearance, where the work has to happen without getting in the way of operations. That includes cooling for Hold Baggage Screening halls and repairs to Pre-Conditioned Air units, which feed conditioned air to aircraft parked on stand. Arctic holds its airside clearances directly, in the company’s own name, not borrowed through another contractor. The logic is simple: if we can deliver airside at a working airport, we can deliver in your building without shutting it down.
Occupied offices, running hotels, staffed warehouses and data centres that can’t drop cooling — we plan the install so the building keeps working while we do. That’s the whole point of self-delivering the trades: we control the sequence, so we control the disruption.
Air conditioning goes into most of the sectors we work in. It’s the backbone of a comfortable, productive commercial office, and it’s critical infrastructure in a data centre, where losing cooling means losing the room. We also cover hotels and hospitality, healthcare, logistics and warehousing, and aviation. Wherever the system sits, the same in-house team designs it, installs it and looks after it afterwards.
Tell us what you’ve got and what it needs to do. We’ll survey it, specify the right system and give you a straight programme and price. For a breakdown, we offer same-day reactive call-out to all clients
There isn’t one, technically. VRF stands for variable refrigerant flow, a system that varies how much refrigerant it sends to each indoor unit so it only uses the energy the space needs. VRV is simply Daikin’s brand name for their VRF systems, so the two terms describe the same technology.
It depends on the size of the job. Multi-split is often the sensible, cost-effective choice for a small suite of rooms. For a whole floor or building, where you want individual control across many zones and better running costs, VRF is usually the better long-term option. We survey the building and recommend the one that actually fits rather than defaulting to the bigger system.
We offer same-day reactive call-out to all clients. Clients on a maintenance contract get priority response and, where agreed, up to 24/7 cover. Because we self-deliver our trades in-house, the engineer who attends can usually diagnose and fix the fault on the same visit rather than waiting on a third party.
Arctic Cooling is the founding division of Arctic Group. Alongside us sit Arctic Scaffolding, Arctic Glazing and Arctic Fire — so where a project needs access built, a façade glazed or a fire compartment reinstated, it stays under one group, one set of accreditations and one point of
contact.
