Data Center and Engineering Systems Design to Tier Standards

helps you understand where you are today and what changes are required for a new site. Several key areas of information are essential both to start the solution selection process and to ensure productive communication with potential vendors.

We, Vicom Plus, can provide you with an initial package of questionnaires and checklists to help you better define the requirements for your future site.

Our Design Experience 

The design stage includes:

  • Development of a conceptual design (EP);

  • Development of a design project (RP);

  • Development of construction documentation (SD), where applicable.

At the initial stages, the entire design team is assembled, communications standards are adopted, IT requirements are assessed, systems to be commissioned are identified, and budget and schedule targets are established.

By the time the design development reaches 30 percent, the building architecture should be defined, floor plans “locked in,” and the primary critical infrastructure systems selected.

This 30-percent design documentation stage signals the need for a “red-line” review of the drawings and key specifications for accuracy and compliance with the guidelines established in the construction documentation.

This work should be performed after the equipment layout has been completed but before preliminary design of the mechanical and electrical distribution systems begins.

It is important to prepare a cost estimate to ensure that the project fits within its budget, and to involve the facility operations representative and the enterprise architect in reviewing all key documents so that IT and operational issues can be identified at an early stage, “while the project is still on paper”...

 - The GreenGrid

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as it is one of the most important stages in data center construction.

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After the key stages have been reviewed, design work should continue only if the owner’s original concept is accurately reflected in the design drawings and key specifications.

What types of sections can standard data center design documentation include?

  • EM Section

  • Refrigeration Systems Section

  • and so on

    Key technical aspects that should be reflected in high-quality design documentation:

    • Redundancy level;

    • Fault tolerance;

    • Cooling efficiency, CFD;

    • Equipment delivery and removal;

    • Monitoring concept;

    • Security requirements;

    • Network topology, MDA;

    • Regulatory approvals;

    • Standards, rules and regulations;

    • Labeling concept.