Aereco has launched a new MVHR range, flagged on the homepage of its UK website under the heading "New MVHR Range"1. The page links to a news item on the company's site, dated December 20231. No technical specification, price, availability date or performance figure for the range appears on the homepage1.
MVHR, or mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, extracts stale air from wet rooms and kitchens and supplies filtered outdoor air, transferring heat from the outgoing air to the incoming air. Aereco already lists heat recovery units among its product categories, alongside air inlets, exhaust units, exhaust fans, sensors and exhaust fans with a heat pump1. It also lists MVHR and mechanical exhaust ventilation with heat recovery (MEVHR) among its ventilation systems1.
The company describes its wider approach as demand controlled ventilation, which it says combines indoor air quality and energy saving1. On a separate product, the C4A mechanical extract fan, it states:
"The C4A takes a smarter approach to whole-house ventilation."
Aereco says around 350 000 dwellings are equipped with its systems every year, across new build and renovation, individual housing, blocks of flats and commercial buildings1. The company operates an Aereco Quality Standard, described on its site by David Pierpoint, Executive Director of the Retrofit Academy CIC, as "a genuine and welcome attempt to engage with the supply chain and address many of the problems that have led to widespread failures in ventilation performance noted in recent reports"1. Aereco's UK contact number is listed as 024 763077361.
Why it matters for households
Ventilation sits alongside insulation and airtightness in determining how a home performs. As dwellings are made tighter, controlled ventilation becomes the route by which moisture and indoor pollutants leave, and heat recovery is the mechanism that limits the energy penalty for doing so. A heat recovery unit that transfers warmth from extracted air to incoming air reduces the load on whatever heats the home, which matters for a household's energy independence where that heat comes from a fuel the occupant buys.
Aereco's stated position is that demand controlled ventilation responds to actual humidity or air quality rather than running at a fixed rate, which the company links to both indoor air quality and energy saving1. For households, the practical questions about any new MVHR range are its heat recovery efficiency, its airflow rates, its noise levels and how it is commissioned and maintained, since ventilation performance in practice has been the subject of critical reporting cited on Aereco's own site1. None of those figures for the new range have been reported1.
The manufacturers hub lists suppliers active in the UK market, and the insulation-glazing hub covers the fabric and ventilation measures that together determine a home's heat demand.
What happens next
No launch date, pricing, specification or distribution details for the new MVHR range have been reported1. Aereco's site directs households to a find-an-installer service and a downloads section, but the homepage does not state when the range becomes available or through which channels1.
Sources1 cited
- Aereco - Demand controlled ventilation, aereco.co.uk