Operational benefits
Making the transition to Infrared heating provides a number operational benefits, including:
- Ease of installation
- Lower heating costs
- Maintenance free operation
- No requirement for regular servicing
- Zero light emission
- A silent heating system
- Superior thermal comfort
- Easily removed for decorating
- 5 year warranty with a long life service (LAVA panels 20yrs +)
- Helps to facilitate compliance with COVID-19 guidance for closed environments
- Better insulation: walls infused with infrared are drier and therefore a better insulator
- Healthier environment for asthma sufferers or others with respiratory issues
- Improved peripheral circulation resulting from infrared directly warming the body
Financial benefits
Heating cost savings of circa 30% are achieved against convection heaters:
- LAVA Infrared requires approximately 20% less watts/m2 than convection heating to heat the same space. Heating thermal mass is more efficient than heating air, as it retains the heat for longer; energy is not wasted over heating the ceiling void
- Reduced running cost: 12% from reducing the room temperature by 2 degrees as occupants are directly heated, less on-time/day (approx. 25% less); 4-5 hours/day for infrared compared with 7-8 hrs/day for convection and more accurate control
- Reduced heating demand resulting from drier, better insulated walls
- More comfortable heating = increased hot yoga studio use
- Maintenance and capital cost savings are determined by the current maintenance costs and the type of heaters the LAVA Infrared panel is replacing:
- no annual servicing or on-going maintenance costs (saving = £ case by case)
- longer equipment life expectancy of 20+ years against a standard convector heater of approximately 10 years (saving = £ case by case)
- reduced building maintenance resulting from drier, better insulated walls which prevents damp/mould (saving = £ case by case).