Commercial ventilation designed, installed and maintained in-house across Heathrow, West London and the M4 corridor. AHU, ductwork and kitchen extract, kept compliant.
Air handling, ductwork and extract — commercial ventilation designed, installed and maintained across Heathrow, West London and the M4 corridor by our own mechanical engineers. Ventilation is one of the seven trades Arctic Cooling delivers in-house, so the same contractor who surveys your system installs it and keeps it running. There’s no handover to a separate maintenance firm and no gap where responsibility falls between two companies. We’ve traded since 2016, and our in-house team is approaching 40 engineers covering all seven trades.
We work for facilities managers, main contractors and building owners around Heathrow and across the Thames Valley, across Heathrow, West London and the M4 corridor. If we can deliver airside at a live airport, we can deliver in your building.
Commercial ventilation takes in a lot of kit. Here’s the ground our mechanical engineers handle directly.
AHU installation, service and maintenance — fans, filters, coils, belts, dampers and controls. On a service visit we check and change filters, inspect and clean coils, test fan drives and belts, prove damper and actuator operation, and log the condition of the unit so you can see what’s coming before it fails. Where a unit is past economic repair we’ll tell you plainly and quote the options, so choosing between refurbishment and replacement is a decision on evidence rather than guesswork.
Ductwork installation, supply and extract, from single plant rooms to full building distribution. New ductwork is installed to spec and, where the design calls for it, pressure-tested to DW/143 so leakage is proven rather than assumed. We also survey older systems to work out whether the ductwork needs refurbishing, sections replacing, or just cleaning and rebalancing.
Kitchen extract canopies, fans, ductwork and make-up air for commercial kitchens. Grease-laden extract is a fire risk and a compliance duty, so it needs cleaning to TR19 Grease at a frequency set by how hard the kitchen runs. We install, service and clean extract systems, and where the kitchen equipment sits alongside the ventilation our commercial catering team works on the same job.
The mechanical plant and the pipework around it — pumps, valves, plant connections and the pipe runs that tie a ventilation system into the building’s heating and cooling circuits. Because we also self-deliver plumbing and electrical work under our NICEIC approval, the wet side and the power and controls are covered by the same contractor rather than pulled in from outside. A plant room fit-out doesn’t need three separate firms coordinating around each other and passing the risk between them.
Ventilation that isn’t maintained quietly costs you. Blocked filters and dirty coils make fans work harder and push up energy use. Poor supply and extract shows up as stale air, condensation and complaints. And several parts of a commercial system carry a legal duty, so a neglected system is a compliance problem waiting to be found.
Planned maintenance keeps it efficient and keeps you covered. We schedule AHU and extract servicing at the right interval, clean and test to the recognised standards, and give you the paperwork to prove it. Put it on a maintenance contract and we keep it scheduled, so nothing slips and reactive repairs are the exception rather than the norm. Contract clients get a faster response, and cover up to 24/7 where the contract calls for it. It also gives you a paper trail — service records and certificates you can hand to an auditor, an insurer or a main contractor without chasing around for them afterwards.
We state the compliance position plainly and name the standards behind it:
sets the minimum ventilation rates a commercial building has to meet — the starting point for any design.
governs kitchen extract cleaning. A dirty extract system can cause a fire and can invalidate your insurance, which is why the cleaning is documented, not just done.
is the leakage test that proves ductwork is airtight to the design where testing is specified.
The right approach depends on the building. Commercial offices need quiet, balanced supply and extract that holds a comfortable environment without wasting energy. Hotels and hospitality sites live or die on kitchen extract that stays compliant under heavy use. Logistics and warehousing buildings need ventilation and make-up air that copes with high-bay heat gain and constant loading-door traffic without the running costs spiralling. Healthcare ventilation carries stricter requirements again around air quality and specialist spaces. We scope each one to what the building and the sector actually demand.
Whether it’s a new install, an AHU or extract system that needs bringing back up to standard, or planned maintenance you want to hand to one contractor, we’ll survey it and give you a straight answer. Call or email to arrange a site visit.
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.
