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That might sound a bit trivial, but the point is that the solution is almost never a building by itself.

With changing market dynamics and growing environmental concerns, there's an urgent need to maximise energy efficiency and reduce carbon footprints.Computational Fluid Dynamics provides the potential for a detailed and accurate insight into the operation of the data centre, throughout the design process.

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.The sustainably focused design promotes the use of healthy materials, avoiding products identified in the client’s prohibited materials list, which includes materials labelled as acutely toxic, serious health hazard, Persistent Bio-Accumulative (PBA), and the use of Chromium VI, PVC, Rayon, Asbestos, Mercury, Lead, Cadmium or other heavy metals.

Finishes, paints and adhesives have been selected to meet the formaldehyde, Benzene and VOC thresholds from the WELL Standard..The future of wellbeing in architectural design.

The impact of the pandemic has highlighted the importance of designing for wellbeing.While this is positive for building occupants, the lessons learned from COVID have shown that some of the design decisions taken to make buildings healthier, have implications for energy efficiency that can affect the aspiration to deliver low-carbon buildings.. Our response to the challenge is a holistic approach to sustainable design and wellbeing, with a strong focus on the use of passive design measures.