Every Facet of Climate.
One Division.
Airplant designs, installs, and maintains complete climate systems — ducting, electrical, controls, and refrigerant pipework — as one accountable scope of work, across commercial, medical, industrial, institutional, and residential sites.
Why Airplant Exists
Climate-control projects usually pass through four or five separate contractors — a duct installer, an electrician, a controls specialist, a pipefitter — each handing off to the next, each disclaiming the others' work.
Airplant exists to close that gap: one division, one point of accountability, across the entire mechanical, electrical, and controls scope of a climate system. The same technicians who install a system are the ones who commission it, service it, and answer the call when something goes wrong.
We're a Specialised Operating Division of Besbpo Group, a South African conglomerate spanning Built Environment, Real Estate, BPO, Logistics, Consultancy, and Security — which means Airplant draws on the same regulatory discipline, engineering rigour, and delivery standards already proven across the Group's other divisions.
Airplant designs, installs, and maintains complete climate systems — ducting, electrical, controls, and pipework — as one accountable scope of work.
Five Sectors, One Team
Commercial
Office towers, retail centres, hospitality — comfort cooling and heating at scale.
Medical
Pressure-controlled and isolation environments where tolerance for error is near zero.
Industrial
Process ventilation, extraction, and plant-floor climate control.
Institutional
Schools, government, and public facilities on long asset lifecycles.
Residential
Single-unit and multi-dwelling installs, sized for household budgets.
Every Discipline, One Reference
This portfolio maps everything Airplant runs directly — no sub-contracted disciplines, no handoffs between separate companies. Fifteen categories, organised in the order a real project moves through them: design, build, prove, and maintain. Tap any category to see the full service list.
- HVAC feasibility studies & site surveys
- Heat load / cooling load calculations (CLTD & RTS methods)
- Ventilation & air-change-rate assessments
- Energy modelling & lifecycle cost analysis
- System selection consulting (VRF vs chiller vs split vs packaged)
- Space planning & plant room layout design
- Existing system condition audits
- Compliance gap assessments (SANS, OHS Act, municipal by-laws)
- Mechanical design drawings & specifications
- Ductwork layout & sizing (Manual D / SANS methods)
- Refrigerant piping schematic design
- Electrical single-line & control schematic design
- BMS / controls sequence-of-operations design
- Fire-rated & smoke-control system design coordination
- Acoustic & vibration design (plant noise, isolation)
- Tender documentation & bill-of-quantities preparation
- Peer review & third-party design verification
- Sheet-metal ductwork fabrication (galvanised, stainless, aluminium)
- Rectangular & spiral duct manufacture
- Flexible ducting supply & installation
- Duct insulation & vapour-barrier application
- Fire dampers, volume-control dampers & motorised dampers
- Diffusers, grilles & louvres — supply & fitting
- Kitchen extract & grease-duct systems
- Cleanroom & laminar-flow ductwork
- Duct cleaning & hygiene servicing
- HVAC plant power reticulation (DBs, isolators, cabling)
- Motor control centres (MCC) for fans, pumps & compressors
- VSD/VFD supply, installation & commissioning
- Control wiring & field-device cabling (sensors, actuators)
- Emergency power tie-ins & changeover integration
- Earthing, bonding & lightning protection for plant
- Electrical compliance certification (CoC) for HVAC installations
- Standby generator interlock wiring for critical environments
- Copper refrigerant pipework — supply & installation
- Brazing, pressure testing & vacuum/dehydration
- Refrigerant charging & leak detection
- Condensate drainage systems
- Chilled/hot water pipework (steel, HDPE)
- Pipe insulation & lagging
- Refrigerant recovery, reclaim & responsible disposal (F-gas compliance)
- Pipe route surveys & riser design for multi-storey buildings
- Split & multi-split system installation
- VRF/VRV system installation
- Chiller plant installation (air-cooled, water-cooled)
- Air handling unit (AHU) installation
- Packaged rooftop unit (RTU) installation
- Cooling tower installation & water-treatment tie-in
- Plant room construction coordination (civils, structural interface)
- Multi-storey riser & builder's-work coordination
- Building Management System (BMS) design & integration
- DDC controller supply, programming & commissioning
- Zone / room-level thermostat & sensor networks
- Integration with fire, access-control & security systems
- Remote monitoring dashboard setup
- Energy management system (EMS) integration
- Scheduling, setback & demand-control ventilation programming
- Legacy controls retrofit & protocol translation (BACnet, Modbus)
- Positive/negative pressure isolation room systems
- Operating theatre HVAC (HEPA filtration, laminar flow)
- Pharmaceutical & laboratory cleanroom climate control
- Cold-room & controlled-environment installations
- Precision cooling for server/data-hall-adjacent spaces
- Infection-control ventilation upgrades
- Validation & qualification documentation support (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Ageing-plant condition assessment & replacement planning
- Refrigerant transition retrofits (e.g. R22 to R410A/R32)
- Energy-efficiency retrofits & plant right-sizing
- Ductwork refurbishment & re-lining
- Controls modernisation (pneumatic to DDC)
- Phased retrofit programmes for occupied buildings
- Air balancing (duct traverse, diffuser flow verification)
- Water balancing (chilled/condenser water loops)
- Functional performance testing
- Commissioning per SANS / ASHRAE guidelines
- Integrated systems testing (fire/life-safety interlocks)
- Handover documentation & O&M manual compilation
- Building tuning — post-occupancy performance verification
- Scheduled filter changes & coil cleaning
- Refrigerant level checks & leak surveys
- Belt, bearing & motor servicing
- Controls calibration & sequence verification
- Service level agreements — Standard / Priority / Enterprise
- Planned preventive maintenance (PPM) scheduling
- Compliance-driven maintenance for regulated occupancies
- 24/7 emergency call-out
- Rapid-response for critical environments (hospitals, server-adjacent)
- Temporary/rental cooling deployment during repairs
- Root-cause failure analysis & reporting
- After-hours & public-holiday response tiers
- Remote performance monitoring & alerting
- Energy consumption benchmarking & reporting
- Predictive maintenance (vibration/thermal analytics)
- Carbon footprint & ESG reporting support
- Integration with SolarBell renewable systems (heat-pump/solar-assisted HVAC)
- Split & multi-split unit retail (e-commerce)
- Ducting components & accessories retail
- Filters, belts & consumables retail
- Controls & thermostat retail
- Trade / bulk supply accounts for contractors
- Spares & OEM parts sourcing
- Technician apprenticeship & upskilling programmes
- Client facilities-team operational training
- BMS operator training
- Refrigerant handling & safety certification support (SAQCC-aligned)
The System Status Strip
Airplant's signature interface element: a live strip of zone tiles showing thermal state at a glance. Every commissioned project ships with this view — here's a taste of what it looks like, live.
Illustrative demo — active zones carry full colour (blue for cooling, amber for heating); standby zones stay neutral. Mono type only, on every reading, in every real deployment.
Every Category Traces to a Real Standard
Eleven regulatory categories sit behind this portfolio — cross-referenced directly to the services above, not a generic compliance statement. South Africa doesn't yet have its own dedicated SANS standard for isolation-room pressurisation; where that's true, we say so directly rather than citing a standard that doesn't exist.
Airplant in the Besbpo Group Ecosystem
Airplant doesn't operate in isolation — it draws on and feeds into sibling divisions across the Besbpo Group.
BEIE
Electrical & instrumentation — shares SANS 10142-1 discipline
SolarBell
Heat-pump & solar-assisted HVAC integration (Category 13)
AFSS
Fire sprinklers — smoke-control design coordination (Category 01)
Bellwether SWE
Plumbing — adjacent pipe & water-system trades
BESC
Construction — plant-room civils & builder's-work coordination
One Framework, Three Layers
Every Airplant quote is built the same way: pick the fee model that matches the work, apply the complexity tier that matches the risk, then apply the client service tier that matches the relationship.
Fee Models
What kind of work is this, and how is the base fee calculated?
Complexity Tiers
×1.00–×2.00+, driven by real risk factors, not client size.
Service Tiers
Standard → Priority → Enterprise → Strategic Partner.
Every Sector, Every Discipline
Twenty views across the full scope — ducting, electrical, refrigerant piping, and installation work spanning commercial, industrial, and residential sites.
Let's Talk About Your Project
Tell us about the site, the sector, and the scope — we'll come back with which fee model and complexity tier fits.