HVAC and maintenance services for businesses in Vallès Occidental

Vallès Occidental accounts for a significant share of Catalonia's industrial, logistics and office activity, spread across medium-sized towns, industrial estates and business parks. For maintenance managers, property managers and portfolio managers with buildings in the comarca, the challenge is often looking after very different installations in several towns to a single standard. MRS Climatización installs and maintains HVAC, electrical installations and industrial refrigeration in this area, working from its production and warehouse base in Sabadell.

A comarca of towns, industrial estates and business parks

Vallès Occidental has two capitals, Sabadell and Terrassa, and a number of towns with distinct profiles: Sant Cugat del Vallès, Rubí, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barberà del Vallès, Ripollet, Montcada i Reixac, Castellar del Vallès, Sant Quirze del Vallès, Polinyà and Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, among others. The main roads crossing the comarca, such as the AP-7, B-30 and C-58, have drawn logistics and industrial units along their routes.

In terms of buildings, this means:

• Industrial estates with units combining production, storage and offices.
• Large logistics centres with loading docks and shift-based operations.
• Business parks and office buildings, particularly around Sant Cugat and Cerdanyola.
• Education, healthcare and residential facilities in the town centres.

Industrial and logistics units

In an industrial unit, conditions are rarely uniform. Offices need comfort, order-picking areas need acceptable conditions for staff, and some goods require industrial cold rooms. On top of that come electrical panels feeding machinery, technical lighting at height and control systems.

The points that need most attention in this type of building are:

• Outdoor and rooftop units on large roofs, exposed to dust from operations.
• Evaporators, condensers and defrost cycles in storage cold rooms.
• Electrical panels extended in stages, with loads that have changed over time.
• Coordination with shifts, docks and site safety rules.

Offices in business parks

Office buildings in the comarca typically run on VRF or fan-coil systems with centralised controls, often with several tenants per building. Floor reconfigurations, zoning and energy use are the recurring issues. The full approach is set out on the office HVAC maintenance page.

Maintaining multi-site portfolios

When a company or manager has buildings in several Vallès towns, it pays to treat them as a single portfolio with plans tailored to each building:

• Equipment inventory per site and inspection frequency based on use and criticality.
• Scheduled preventive maintenance and incident management with priorities set by contract.
• Periodic technical reports per site, comparable with one another.
• Continuous technical support for the maintenance manager.

This model is formalised through technical maintenance contracts that set out the service conditions. MRS is also incorporating a web platform with a digital record per unit, intervention history, upcoming inspections and preventive alerts, which makes it easier to follow several sites at once.

Organised from Sabadell

The MRS production and warehouse base is in Sabadell, at the heart of the comarca. From there, materials, tools and spare parts, planned by equipment and availability, are prepared for each job in the Vallès. Faults are diagnosed on site with measuring equipment and, where possible, repaired during the same visit. If your building is in Sabadell itself, see also the Sabadell page.

Information for preparing the assessment

• Town and address of each site.
• Type of premises: industrial unit, logistics centre, office or facility.
• HVAC, refrigeration and electrical equipment, with an inventory if available.
• Operating hours, shifts and access or safety requirements.

MRS works mainly in Sabadell and the surrounding area and in the Barcelona metropolitan area, and throughout Catalonia for larger projects. Availability for each address in the comarca is confirmed when the request is reviewed.