What Does HVAC Stand For?
As a consumer you may of had heard the term HVAC but did not no what it meant. Well if you have ever been curios here is your answer.
HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) is the technology of indoor or automotive environmental comfort. HVAC system design is a major subdiscipline of mechanical engineering, based on the principles of thermodynamics,fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Refrigeration and is often added to the HVAC abbreviation as HVAC&R or HVACR or ventilating is dropped as in HACR (such as the designation of HACR-rated circuit breakers).
HVAC is important in the design of medium to large industrial and large office buildings also marine environments such as aquariums, where safe and healthy building conditions are regulated with temperature and humidity, as well as “fresh air” from outdoor environment.
So when you see a heating and air conditioning company refer to itself as an HVAC company or use that term in their marketing literature or their internet presence they are really saying they are a heating and cooling company. We don’t use the term with our customers or when communicating with the public because it will often confuse them since they are not part of the HVAC they would have no reason to know what it mean. .
For more information check Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVAC