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| University of St Andrews receives Honorable Mention |
Our Data Centre has again been recognised for it's Facility Design-Implementation. The Green Enterprise IT Awards 2013 have given St Andrews an Honourable Mention in their annual awards. Looking at the list of worldwide companies involved in these awards, I am, yet again, thrilled that the judges were impressed by what we've achieved in a small University in a small town in Fife!
The University of St Andrews, which
is about to celebrate its 600th anniversary, expects to reduce its carbon
footprint by some 6,800 tonnes over 10 years and has made a commitment to be
carbon neutral for energy supply by 2016. Information Technology has a
significant part to play in this.
The University has redeveloped an
existing building on a brownfield site into a state of the art datacentre,
using a modern twist on traditional design, to yield high energy efficiency, in
a compact package, with detailed attention to noise abatement, thus gaining
residential certification in a conservation area.
The
datacentre has fully contained hot/cold airflow and indirect free cooling for
the majority of the year. Exhaust air is used to heat the generator sets. Enhanced
detailed telemetry has allowed a high degree of component optimization at part
load and the efficiency improvements achieved, both in design and
post-implementation, are relatively easily applied to legacy datacentres, and
to optimize modern part-loaded facilities.
The
datacentre is broadly designed to be resilient to single component failure, and
has offered 100% uptime since construction.
A
project group of involved stakeholders controlled the design and implementation
and an operations board oversees ongoing continuous improvements. We are
currently undertaking modifications which are expected to reduce our annualized
PUE towards 1.2 despite being less than 40% loaded at this time.
The organization has received a BCS CEEDA
Gold award for the facility and the design was used as part of the development
of the BREEAM datacentre scheme.
More details:
http://symposium.uptimeinstitute.com/geit-awards
http://symposium.uptimeinstitute.com/geit-awards/1950-600-year-old-university-builds-highly-energy-efficient-gold-ceeda-award-winning-data-center
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