Windhive for sport and activity halls

Demand driven ventilation for varying occupancy rates in halls

A sports hall goes from empty to full in five minutes. CO2 climbs, the space overheats and often they don’t have any dedicated on site facilities support. So ease of use for any ventilation system and tight budgets mean running costs become a focus. Windhive® is low cost, low maintenance, and operates autonomously.

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How Windhive works

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The brief

The hall’s problem is occupancy, not floor area

The challenge How Windhive answers
  • CO2 rising fast under high-occupancy sessions
  • Overheating during summer evening use
  • Noise from mechanical ventilation during play and matches
  • Little or no on-site maintenance capability
  • Passive ventilation responding to CO2 as the hall fills
  • Night purge to clear heat from the structure overnight
  • No fans, so nothing audible during play
  • Near-zero ventilation running cost year on year
  • Few moving parts, with monitoring rather than site visits
  • Measured post-occupancy data available for funding reports

By the numbers

Performance that holds up at tender

100%

Fresh air, no recirculation

zero

Fans

TM52

Supports the overheating assessment

1,600

kWh per unit per year, modelled against natural ventilation without heat recovery

Project evidence

Windhive in high-occupancy halls

Sport and activity spaces

“Ventive’s Windhive system delivers precisely what we want.”

Mark Cheesman · School Manager, Guildford County School

Specifying ventilation for a sports hall or a leisure centre?

Send us the hall and its occupancy pattern. We will model it and come back with the overheating position and a Windhive layout.

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