Kota Kinabalu: Ten of these big ceiling fans are to be installed in Damai Phase 4 shoplots soon after a trial run of one already installed.
“I hope my observation and concern over such proposed decision by the Damai Phase 4 Management Services Committee will reconsider this choice,” said prominent architect Datuk Ho Jia Lit.
“My reasons are as follows: Hot air and heat always naturally rise upwards in such enclosed roof spaces. Given possible 100 air conditioners and compressors from 1 to 2 horse power each pumping out extremely hot air nonstop during office hours into these spaces and trapped in this enclosure, the installation of 10 big ceiling fans will only blow all these hot air downwards towards all the customers sitting in all those coffee shops and restaurants below, “ Ho noted.
“We as architects, with our PAM Chapter Institute office located in this Damai Phase 4, we naturally feel it would be better to install exhaust fans centralised on top of all roofing ridges, to suck out all those accumulated hot air to discharge them above the roofing spaces,” Ho said.
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