Garrison Technology Park, Birmingham

RED provided MEP consultancy services for the design and construction of a new Tier III data centre located in the Midlands.  The project comprises 2,000m² of IT space delivered across four phases and also incorporated approximately 500m² of ancillary space including office areas, meeting rooms, loading bay, build room, NOC etc.

The data centre contains circa 750 racks with an IT load of 3MW.  The electrical solution is a distributed redundant system using modular UPS.  The cooling comprises highly energy efficient indirect mass air free cooling systems using hot aisle containment within the halls.

A CFD modelling assessment was undertaken to assess IT equipment ventilation under:

• Normal operation at 1500kW IT load
• Failure operation at 1500kW IT load
• Normal and failure operation at 750kW IT load

Modelling demonstrated capabilities of staging equipment and IT load without requirement for temporary partitioning of data hall.

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