HVAC maintenance for businesses in Terrassa

Terrassa, which shares the role of capital of Vallès Occidental with Sabadell, packs very different buildings into a compact area: former textile mills and factory buildings converted into offices or public facilities, a town centre of shops and offices, schools and university buildings, and industrial estates on the outskirts. For maintenance managers and property managers in the town, HVAC cannot be looked after with a single plan for everything. MRS Climatización organises preventive and corrective maintenance for these installations from its production and warehouse base in neighbouring Sabadell.

Buildings from many eras in one town

Terrassa's textile past has left a stock of industrial buildings, many of them modernista, that now have other uses. In these buildings, HVAC was almost always added later, onto a structure never designed for it. Typical findings include:

• Equipment installed during different refurbishments, from different brands and generations.
• Outdoor units on large roofs, sometimes with limited access.
• Long runs of refrigerant and condensate pipework.
• High-ceilinged spaces where warm air collects at the top.

In the town centre, premises and offices mostly run on splits or direct-expansion units installed in stages. So the first step is usually an inventory identifying each unit, its location and its condition, and the inspection frequency for each piece of equipment is then set according to use and criticality.

Inland summers set the schedule

Terrassa has a more continental climate than the coast: hot summers and cold winter nights. That concentrates the strain on equipment at two points in the year, and the preventive plan is organised around them:

• Before summer: cleaning condenser coils, checking pressures and power draw, fans and condensate drains.
• Before winter: heat pump changeover, defrost cycles, sensors and heating set points.
• Throughout the year: filters, controls and checks on the associated electrical panels, as often as each unit requires.

Our blog explains why your HVAC system has already given clues before summer demand peaks and how to act on them.

Roofs and plant rooms that are hard to reach

Many of the town's older industrial buildings have saw-tooth roofs, with rooflights and changes of level that make it harder to reach the equipment. In refurbished offices, indoor units are often hidden in suspended ceilings without enough access panels. The plan records how each unit is reached, what equipment is needed and which tasks are grouped into the same trip onto the roof. If a unit has no safe access, this is reported so the owner can resolve it.

Education buildings and offices

Schools and university buildings are heavily occupied during term and nearly empty in the holidays, so the most disruptive tasks are concentrated in those periods. In offices, inspections that require stopping equipment can take place outside working hours, with night or out-of-hours work arranged in advance.

Organised from Sabadell

Being close to the Sabadell base makes it easier to prepare the materials, filters and spare parts for each visit in advance, planned by equipment and availability. The same technical team handles both preventive and corrective work, with on-site diagnosis and repair during the same visit where possible. The full scope of the service is described on the HVAC maintenance for businesses page, and our overall approach on the maintenance page.