McKinsey’s report.
This is incredibly useful to highlight any risks within the design, but it also allows for multiple design options to be tested at an early design stage, highlighting potential opportunities for lowering energy consumption and carbon emission.These strategies can include reducing storey heights, optimising Hot Aisle Containment (HAC) required and reducing the clearances between data racks leading to a smaller data hall footprint.. At Bryden Wood, we advocate for a broader application of CFD in optimising and innovating data centre design, aiming for a more sustainable future within the industry.. Data Hall Design Optimisation.
CFD Analysis of a Switch Room.CFD is traditionally used within data halls and Electrical Plantrooms to assess IT or Electrical Plants (e.g.UPS), both in normal running (N+X) and failure scenarios (N) and to ensure optimal cooling distribution and equipment performance.
By integrating CFD early in the design process we can explore design options available to improve optimisation from both an economic and carbon standpoint..Embodied carbon for a recent DC project.. MEP systems, especially cooling and power distribution, account for a considerable proportion of a data centre’s embodied carbon.
By leveraging CFD, we can effectively minimise this impact by optimising cooling efficiency.
Structures contribute to approximately 10% of the overall embodied carbon on a DC project, making it important to explore options that enhance design sustainability through material reduction..Stages of information transfer in design and construction.
There are various stages of information involved in the creation of a new building, or an extension of a domestic dwelling.Architects produce one set of information to one set of criteria, submitting it to planners who then need another, and particular, set of information.
From there it goes to the people who might approve the building, or the people constructing the building.In reality, though, all of these people just need slightly different slices of the same information.