HVAC
The heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system.
Definition
HVAC is The heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system. It comes up most often when the physical fabric of the property has to keep working through weather, load, and day-to-day use.
The term keeps showing up because core systems rarely fail at a convenient time, so teams track them to avoid expensive downtime and safety issues. The term usually points to assets that age slowly but cause sharp pain when neglected.
Use cases
Use HVAC to monitor the building systems that can create outsized disruption if they fail.
Review HVAC when the team needs to connect physical condition back to downtime and safety risk.
Track HVAC so operations can plan repairs before slow asset wear turns into sharp operational pain.