Office Air Conditioning in Surrey
Stuffy, overheating offices cost you in concentration, sick days and staff goodwill. Tempest designs, installs and maintains office air conditioning across Surrey — from a single meeting room to multi-floor VRF systems — keeping your workplace comfortable all year round.
In short
Office air conditioning in Surrey typically uses VRF, ceiling cassette or wall-mounted split systems. Small offices start around £1,500–£3,000 per zone; multi-room and whole-floor VRF projects run from £7,000 upwards. We handle survey, design, install and planned maintenance for owners, tenants and managing agents.
Choosing the right system for your office
For single rooms and small suites, wall-mounted or ceiling-cassette splits are usually the most cost-effective choice. Once you reach several rooms or a whole floor, a VRF (Variable Refrigerant Flow) system is normally the better long-term answer — one outdoor unit serves many indoor units, each independently controlled, with strong part-load efficiency when only part of the building is occupied.
Because an air conditioner is a reverse-cycle air-to-air heat pump, the same units that cool you in summer also provide efficient heating in winter — useful for offices that want to move away from older electric or gas heating for comfort and running-cost reasons.
Sizing and disruption
A typical UK office needs roughly 0.06–0.10 kW of cooling per square metre, but server rooms, glass-fronted meeting rooms and densely occupied open-plan areas push that higher — we always size from a proper heat-load survey rather than a rule of thumb. Getting this right avoids both undersized systems that never cope in a heatwave and oversized systems that short-cycle and waste energy.
Most installs are planned around your working day. We can phase work floor-by-floor, work evenings or weekends where needed, and keep dust and downtime to a minimum.
For landlords and managing agents
We work regularly with landlords, property managers and managing agents across Surrey on both fit-outs and ongoing care. Independently controlled VRF zones make multi-tenant billing and comfort straightforward, and a planned maintenance contract protects the asset, keeps systems efficient and supports F-Gas refrigerant record-keeping obligations.
- VRF, ceiling cassette and wall-mounted split options
- Independent zone control for multi-tenant or multi-room offices
- Daikin, Mitsubishi Electric, Fujitsu and Samsung equipment
- Reverse-cycle: efficient heating in winter, cooling in summer
- Phased, out-of-hours installation to minimise disruption
- Planned maintenance contracts for owners and managing agents
Typical office air conditioning options and guide costs (Surrey, ex-VAT, indicative)
| Office size | Typical system | Indicative cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 rooms | Wall/cassette split | £1,500–£3,000 |
| 3–4 rooms / small suite | Multi-split | £3,500–£7,000 |
| Whole floor / multi-zone | VRF | £7,000–£20,000+ |
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