Course Overview

This course, held over three days, is aimed at teaching best practice design principles for the design, construction and operation of computer rooms and data centers. It consists of a number of subsections that address the fundamental requirements of a successful design such as physical infrastructure, electrical power supply, air conditioning and data cabling. Best practice is achieved by bringing together the requirements of British, European, US and International standards. Several case studies are considered to see examples of good and bad practice in real situations. The unit is principally assessed by an ongoing design exercise that leads the delegates through all the steps and decision points needed to arrive at a baseline design of a modern data center.

All the Data Centre Courses have been fully updated to take into account the requirements of the 2009 EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency.