Hospitality Ventilation Consultancy & Project Management

Hospitality venues present unique airflow challenges. It takes specialist expertise to design a system that handles intense back-of-house kitchen extraction while keeping the front-of-house environment balanced, draught-free, and quiet. Working entirely on your behalf, we specify the technical requirements, facilitate contractor procurement, and manage the project to make sure your climate control and ventilation systems are delivered to the highest standard.

Front-of-House & Back-of-House Climate Integration

A successful hospitality venue relies on balancing air pressure and temperature. If a kitchen ventilation system extracts more air than is being supplied, it creates negative pressure. This can lead to slamming doors, cold draughts sweeping through the dining room, and cooking odours escaping into customer areas.

As your independent consultants, we calculate and specify systems that harmonise the entire building:

• Guest Comfort & Ambient Control: We specify discreet, draught-free fresh air supply and HVAC systems for dining rooms, bars, and lobbies, so your customers remain comfortable year-round.
• Aesthetic Integration: We work closely with interior designers and architects to specify grilles, diffusers, and exposed ductwork that complement your venue's aesthetic without compromising mechanical performance.
• Pressure Balancing: We calculate the exact make-up air requirements to ensure neutral or slightly positive pressure in the dining areas, which keeps kitchen odours firmly contained behind the pass.

Navigating Planning Permission: Odour & Noise Compliance

Securing planning permission often hinges on a robust ventilation strategy, particularly for “Change of Use” applications to Class E (restaurants and cafes) or Sui Generis (pubs and bars). Local authorities and Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) carefully protect nearby residential properties from nuisance noise and odours.

Peak Ventilation produces the technical specifications and feasibility reports required to satisfy EMAQ+ (Control of Odour and Noise from Commercial Kitchen Exhaust Systems) guidelines.

• Advanced Odour Mitigation: We specify multi-stage filtration strategies tailored to your menu and location. This includes specifying Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP), UV-C neutralisation, and activated carbon filtration to treat exhaust air before it is discharged.
• Acoustic Attenuation Specification: Background noise (LA90) creep is a common reason for planning rejection. We calculate and specify inline acoustic silencers, acoustic fan enclosures, and anti-vibration mountings to ensure your plant equipment operates within strict council noise limits.
• Discharge Strategy: We provide expert guidance on flue routing and high-level discharge requirements to ensure compliance with local planning policies.

Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Specification

Hospitality venues are energy-intensive, and relying on outdated or poorly specified ventilation can lead to high running costs. We specify energy-efficient solutions designed to reduce your overheads and lower your carbon footprint.

• DCKV (Demand-Controlled Kitchen Ventilation): Specifying intelligent sensors that monitor temperature, CO2, and cooking activity. These systems automatically scale fan speeds up during busy services and down during quieter periods.
• Heat Recovery (MVHR): Where viable, we specify Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery systems to extract stale air while capturing its thermal energy to pre-heat incoming fresh air, which helps to cut heating bills.
• ErP Compliant Equipment: Mandating the use of high-efficiency EC (Electronically Commutated) fans and modern inverter drives in the contractor tender package.

Independent Procurement & Project Management

Peak Ventilation acts as the technical bridge between your vision and the mechanical contractors.

• Unbiased Specification: We specify the equipment and systems that are genuinely best for your venue, completely free from the influence of installer markups or manufacturer allegiances.
• Contractor Tendering: We draft precise and highly detailed scopes of work. This allows you to invite tenders from multiple contractors so you can receive accurate, comparable, and competitive quotes.
• Project Oversight: From the initial strip-out to the final commissioning, we can manage the mechanical installation on your behalf. We resolve technical queries and ensure contractors build exactly what was specified.
• Final Handover & QA: We review all commissioning data, airflow test reports, and O&M manuals provided by the contractors to guarantee the system performs exactly as designed before final sign-off.