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The cost of chiller downtime can be catastrophic for businesses
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To help, we’ve put together a brief guide on what your contingency plan should cover. If you’d like to talk through your site’s specific requirements – whether that’s reviewing an existing plan or building one from scratch – we’re always happy to help. Get in touch with our team for more information.
Contingency Planning
The cost of chiller downtime can be catastrophic for many businesses and it's important to have a back-up solution. Take a look at our contingency planning suggestions - and why having a plan matters more than you'd think.
Chiller failure is one of those things nobody expects to happen on their watch – until it does. And when it does, how well your site copes has very little to do with how fast you can find an emergency hire company, and everything to do with the preparation you put in beforehand.
We work alongside HVAC engineers and contractors day in, day out, and the ones who navigate failures calmly almost always have one thing in common: a plan that was written before anything went wrong..
What does "contingency plan" actually mean?
A chiller contingency plan isn’t a laminated sheet on the plant room wall with one phone number on it. It’s a living document that answers the critical questions before anyone is under pressure to answer them.
Think of it this way: when a chiller fails at 11pm on a Friday, your site manager shouldn’t need to make five phone calls just to figure out what cooling capacity they need. That information should already exist, documented, and accessible to whoever needs it.
What this looks like in practice
A well-prepared plan will include information on cooling-critical environments, the capacity required, the power available on site and connection and pipework strategy amongst other areas. It will contain a clear plan of equipment needed, by whom, at what time and can be pulled up in seconds and acted on immediately. Compare that to a site that has to start from scratch during an emergency, and the value of that preparation becomes clear very quickly.
