Laboratories require constant ventilation with 100% outside air. This air is frequently used as make-up air for fume hoods. Alternatively, it may be used for dilution ventilation and cooling demand (in a life-science laboratory). In either case, costly outside air must be conditioned and positioned to provide a safe work environment for investigators. The cost to provide this important environment can range from $6/sq. ft./year up to $30/sq. ft./year or more.

At Newmatic Engineering, we can greatly reduce operating costs while improving safety and indoor environmental quality. The Phoenix Controls Celeris® system safely reduces airflow from fume hoods to improve containment and deliver dramatic energy savings. The unique needs of laboratory airflow control require immediate response to sash changes, without compromising fume hood containment or room pressurization. Phoenix does this flawlessly, and our team of engineers has dozens of years’ combined experience applying this technology. We will optimize energy efficiency to meet your budget, and will always enhance your system safety. Where speed of response is not critical, Phoenix offers the more cost-effective Traccel® system. All the benefits of maintaining critical pressure relationships are maintained, with significant energy savings coming from varying volume with cooling demand and occupancy status.

Our knowledge is not limited to components, but we provide an overall system analysis to ensure you get delivered performance. Our innovative solutions are matched with an excellent engineering department, and the most thorough field technicians in the industry. Your systems will be fully commissioned when they are turned over to your operating personnel. Nothing less is acceptable in this important, life-safety system.

In addition to superlative system performance, Newmatic Engineering also offers the best integration services available. Tremendous amounts of information are available to you, including airflow values, fume hood sash positions, fume hood occupancy status, and alarm conditions. We can take this information into our servers to identify optimization opportunities in operating systems, and we can deliver this information to your Building Automation System (BAS) via BACnet (the industry-standard communication protocol).

For spaces that need to be monitored, we offer CRC room monitors. These full-color touch-screen monitors allow you to accurately monitor the pressure of a space and provide programmability to control and respond to dozens of devices in the zone, including (but not limited to) lighting, watering, housekeeping, and emergency modes. For areas that may have odors, we offer Genesis Air, state of the art technology for odor removal. As effluent leaves the building, we offer MK Plastics high-plume dilution blowers to pre-dilute and jettison effluent far from the building envelope. These fans give you an effective stack height without the architectural and structural challenges of a tall exhaust stack.

Newmatic Engineering is passionate about delivering the highest quality laboratory environment to our customers. We work designing new labs and retrofitting existing laboratories. Please give us an opportunity to show you how we can make your laboratory facility better.