Arup Ireland Data Centre Capability EMEA

Data Centres EMEA

Capability Statement

Arup understands the key business needs of data centres and works to ensure a data centre achieves optimum performance levels.

A secure and reliable location

- Bringing Arup’s local knowledge across EMEA to bear

Robust infrastructure

- Innovative design solutions which optimise free cooling

- In depth analysis of systems design

- Secure renewable and alternative energy technologies

Competitive and cost effective solutions through

- Life cycle cost analyses

- Risk management

- Competitive tendering processes

- Rigorous Budgeting and Cost Control

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Full functionality

- Commissioning management

- Validation

- Comprehensive training

Delivery

- On time

- On budget

- Meeting needs of the business

Key issues that Arup focuses on with our Data Centre Clients include:

Business Needs

UK

Cape TownDurban

Gaborone

BulawayoHarare

TshwaneJohannesburg

Madrid

Milan BelgradeBucharest

Istanbul Ankara

AmsterdamBerlin

KrakowWroclaw

Lagos

Abuja

Düsseldorf

Frankfurt

WarsawMoscow

DubaiDoha

Abu Dhabi

Copenhagen

Dublin

Ireland

Paul Dunne

Spain

Javier Galan

UK

Steve Campbell Ferguson

Frankfurt

Karsten Spengler

Amsterdam

Christian Allison

Turkey

Salih Toyran

Moscow

Vladimir Zakolyukin

We are a global organisation

5,700Planners, designers, engineers and consultants out of a global team of over 11,000.

We deliver innovative projects across the world with creativity and passion.

EMEA Region Comprises

Technical Needs

Site Selection

Site appraisal

Due diligence

Feasibility studies

Planning application

Environmental assessment

Infrastructure analysis

Fire certificate application

Building surveys and inspections

Design

Innovation

Resilience & power management

Energy Efficiency

Sustainability

Free Cooling

Fire strategy

Cost management

Safety

Arup offers a full spectrum of services for Data Centre and Mission Critical Facilities to respond to the specific needs of our clients for their projects. The type of services provided by Arup range from site selection studies and performance specifications through to copy “smart” and full detailed design. We also offer and carry out commissioning and post-occupancy services. The specialist teams that we mobilise from within the organisation bring a full range of expertise in the specific areas of relevance to our clients’ projects, including:

Tendering

Procurement process

Tender evaluation

Contract documentation

Construction

Construction management

Factory acceptance testing

Building inspection

Site monitoring

Commissioning and Validation

Handover of facility

Certification

Post Completion

Facilities management consultancy

Post occupancy review

Snagging

End of defects close out

Sustainable Data Centre Design

Arup offers all services necessary to optimise energy use and operating costs and achieve a high efficiency solution for the Data Centre and can target BREEAM or LEED certification.

We employ our extensive experience and knowledge in data centre design and energy efficiency to exploit the full potential of energy consumption optimisation and thus a reduction of operating costs. Our integrated, holistic design approach combines the best experts from all relevant disciplines.

Our extensive experience with legacy data centre energy and operational improvements, and upgrade works involving zero down time, gives Arup the knowledge and skills to make a real difference in all mission critical environments.

Our advanced energy modelling capabilities transfer the efficient design into a high LEED score. Embedded in the full range of our LEED services and consultancy we can minimise the required effort for a successful certification.

Arup LEED certified data centres include: CitiGroup Frankfurt, Interxion MAD 2 Madrid, Meeza MV2/3 Qatar.

Selected EMEA Experience

Equinix/Ancotel Frankfurt

Upgrade of legacy data centre/telehaus. The telehaus is located in one of the oldest telephone exchanges buildings in Frankfurt, with some of the most extensive connectivity anywhere in the city. The power systems including new Transformers and Switchgear and new Chilled Water systems were upgraded with zero impact on existing tenants.

Citigroup Germany

The Citigroup Data Centre in Frankfurt is the first project in Germany to be LEED certified. It is the first LEED Platinum data centre in the world. The certification process was facilitated by Arup. Arup provided full A/E services on the project.

Selected Experience and Clients

Equinix

Arup has a long standing relationship and a framework agreement with Equinix and has successfully delivered projects in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Switzerland. Arup has provided Equinix with a wide range of professional services including technical due diligence, cost consulting, project management, procurement management and technical supervision.

IXCellerate Data Centre, Moscow

Technical due diligence of electrical and ICT services. Preparation of feasibility study and concept design for the appointed general contractor. Review of contractor’s working design and site supervision during the construction and commissioning period.”The first phase of this project is complete and further fit-out phases will bring the total load up to 10 MW.”

Global Switch London 2 Power Roll Out Program, United Kingdom

Project management, design management and cost management of the provision of an additional 30MW of UPS Power to a live data centre which remained operational. The project involved tight time scales to match power capacity with the Global Switch business plan for occupation of floors. As Global Switch have a very small number of staff Arup were employed to manage tendering and procurement process and project management once on site.

Swiss National Super Computing Centre – Lugano

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano serves as a technology platform for the computer-aided research in Switzerland. It is managed by the ETH Zurich in close cooperation with the local University of Italian Switzerland.

The data center houses several supercomputers including Europe’s fastest HPC Piz Daint, which are used for numerous research projects but also for the forecast of the weather service.

Together with our joint venture partner IFEC Arup was commissioned until 2016 to design the technical infrastructure for the secondary extensions.

EMC2, Ireland

Free cooling and energy saving systems

Arup was responsible for the multi-disciplinary concept and detailed engineering design, project and cost management, site support and for inclusion of sustainable design from concept through to operation.

IBM Blonie, Poland

Blonie is 27km West of Warsaw. The site contained an existing 200m x 68m warehouse within which the IBM data centre would be built ‘box within a box.’

The data halls were enclosed in a box made of a modular ‘safe room’, designed to provide the highest levels of protection against fire, burglary, gas and water penetration.

Arup’s Project Management systems and experience were essential to delivering this project. Managing the tender and procurement process and operating as the client’s representative during the construction phase demonstrated the value of Arup’s technical Project Managers.

Digital Realty Trust, Ireland

Arup provided full engineering and architectural services to Digital Realty Trust to assist them in converting 430m2 of existing office space into a new data hub facility. The works involved major upgrades to the existing cooling plant and MV and LV electrical infrastructure while ensuring there is no interference with the operation of the existing data halls which operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Arup are supporting Digital Realty Trust on other facilities in Redhill London, Schipol Amsterdam, Paris and Singapore.


BSkyB, Harlequin One, London, UK

BSkyB’s West London campus will set an international benchmark for sustainable architecture in a broadcasting environment. Harlequin 1 will house recording, post production and transmission facilities for Sky’s broadcast and sports news departments, including 8 state-of-the-art naturally ventilated studios, naturally ventilated offices for 1370 people, and free-cooled data rooms for more than 400 computer servers. The project will incorporate on-site renewable energy generation. A biomass fuelled Combined Cooling Heating and Power (CCHP) plant will provide sufficient renewable energy to reduce the carbon emissions from Harlequin 1 by at least 20%.

MEEZA Data Centres, Qatar

This new Tier III certified Data Centre is being constructed on a previously undeveloped site in the Arabian Gulf. The development will support co-location and managed IT services in mixed densities to facilitate a high degree of variance within the potential marketplace and will facilitate a maximum demand of 13.5MVA.

The requirement for the new Data Centre has been driven by changes in technology to a higher density computing environment, a desire to create fully mirrored IT infrastructure and an increased demand for technical services.

The gross external building area will be approximately 10,000m2 in total of which 3,000m2 will be technical space. The internalized Data Halls will provide flexible accommodation for racks, cabinets and cages and will be designed so that it can be arranged to a layout that will maximize spatial occupancy and will provide future expansion to an average rack load of 5kW/rack. The facilities environmental credentials will, like Arup Associates Citigroup Data Centre, be a national first as the development will be targeting LEED Gold accreditation


United Arab Emirates Data Centre

Tier III data centre facility in the UAE. LEED Platinum aspiration comprising of 6 data halls of 1000m2 each spread across 2 buildings. Arup are providing mechanical, electrical and public health engineering scheme design.

Key design issues of the project included: The first data centre to be constructed in this Emirate, 50°C ambient temperature, strict limitations from the electricity supplier on transformer sizes and loading limitations, residential properties in close vicinity of site requiring tight acoustic control, a sloping site and a co-location site so final rack types and layouts were not known at time of design

Selected EMEA Experience

Dell Data Centre, Limerick, Ireland

Arup provided project management, design, site monitoring, cost budgeting and cost control for their Dell’s European Manufacturing Facility in Limerick for over a dozen projects since 1999.

Based on our very successful relationhip Arup have provided specialist consultancy services for a wide range of data centre projects for Dell in Istanbul, Lisbon, Stockholm and Montpellier, in the period dating from 2008 to the present.

Telecity, Dublin

Arup provided MEP and Civil/Structural engineering for the 4,200m2 expansion of this existing data centre. An exhaustive feasibility study of the options available to the client for the development of the existing facility was undertaken, including temporary diversions/relocations of existing utility services to accommodate remedial works, whilst maintaining a live uninterrupted data centre throughout the construction works.

The project included an upgrade of the power infrastructure to 10MVA and a 70% reduction in the existing site PUE. Redundancy was provided via the introduction of DRUPS technology as a resilient power source, as well Hybrid Dry Coolers to enhance efficiency and maximise the use of free cooling. The project was constructed over three phases with the final phase completed in January 2014.

Selected Global Experience


Global Switch Expansion, Singapore

7,500 m² of data centre space over 7 floors.

2N system 24MVA, consisting of Static UPS systems and Diesel Generator sets.

Mechanical cooling is provided by water and air cooled plant also configured as a 2N system.

Our work within the facility has extended to the data centre suite fitouts for Fortune 50 companies and many international financial institutions. The facility also features an optical fibre (submarine) cable landing

Equinix SY3 Data Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Data centres such as the 2,450m2 Equinix SY3, are integral to e-commerce, communication and entertainment around the world.

Following our successful work on the 1,800m2 Equinix SY2, we were awarded the design for Equinix SY3, for which our team predicted similar savings. Following a sustainability investigation, we developed innovative solutions to reduce energy consumption which saw Equinix SY2 save an estimated $167,520 in electrical energy per year, reduce emissions by 1,312,240 kg CO2 per year, and reduce the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) from 1.75 to 1.45, even lower than the Green Grid’s recommendations.

Our team achieved this by designing a new cooling system using outside air rather than a chilled water cooling system; and installing high efficiency water-cooled centrifugal type chillers, fans and pumps with variable speed drives.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Design and construction of parking garage for Seattle Centre and a new 12 acre, 800,000ft² campus for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project reached a milestone in July 2008 with the groundbreaking for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new headquarters building. Designed by architect NBBJ, the campus features office buildings with sweeping, outward reaching curves, an open, airy environment, and extensive landscaping and green space that knits the campus into the neighbourhood. The campus will serve as headquarters for the foundation’s work to reduce inequities in the United States and around the world. Project achieved LEED Platinum certification in 2011.

Morgan Stanley

Arup provided lead consultant services and was responsible for review and oversight on behalf of the client for both the data centre design and implementation to ensure that the outsourced service provider delivered the data center in compliance with the bank’s design criteria and requirements.

Mission Critical Projects


The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

The scale of the Institute is key to its vision, along with its location amid a cluster of academic, scientific and medical organisations. It will be a world-leading facility and house some 1500 research staff, making it one of Europe’s largest centres of biomedical research.

Arup are consulting with user groups drawn from the partner institutes in order to design the building to meet their diverse current, and anticipated, needs. The resulting design is a flexible, modular, solution that can be adapted to the future needs of science research.

The Institute must achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating. Full use will be made of modularised offsite MEP installations manufacture. The facility incorporates extensive use of photovoltaics and baseload CHP installation.

Alba Synchroton Light Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain

The joint venture Arup Project Management and Gerens Management Group was selected by CELLS to carry out the integrated direction of Alba Synchroton Light Laboratory.

ALBA is the name of the Synchroton Light facility in the shape of a ring, which uses a series of magnets to generate synchrotron light beams. The synchrotron is an electron accelerator which produces X-Rays with multiple fields of application such as chemistry, materials science, magnetism, industry and macromolecular crystallography.

Arup Project management in conjunction with Gerens assisted the client during all the project phases, the integrated project management and construction including temporal and economic planning of the work, the technical project review, design management and strategy recruitment.


T2, Dublin Airport, Ireland

The operational demands of Terminal 2 were such that several innovative and novel concepts had to be developed to facilitate a robust and secure working environment.

As lead consultants on Dublin Airport’s T2, Arup provided planning, design and project management consultancy.

The master plan for Terminal 2 established high level design aspirations and principles with the aim of delivering visual coherence and establishing the most effective use of all the facilities for passengers and staff alike and delivering a high quality environment that respects and elevates the public realm.

During the construction period the work force on site at the peak was over 2500, over 10,000,000 construction man hours wereachieved during the build programme. Able to accommodate up 15m passengers per year, the terminal has been designed around the needs of customers at what is now the tenth largest airport in Europe for international traffic.

Andrew Harrison | Global Science and Industry DirectorAndrew Harrison is a Mechanical Engineer involved with all aspects of a wide range of design and construction projects within a multi-disciplinary environment. He has worked on transportation, pharmaceutical, industrial, commercial and data centre projects in the United Kingdom, Middle East, North America and South East Asia. He has managed multi-skilled, multi-location and multi-company teams on international assignments.

Andrew’s experience covers the development of strategic plans and conceptual designs along with the translation of these into appropriate implementation routes and the production of related construction documentation. This includes the development of financially based implementation plans, contract specifications, supplier/contractor selection, technical and commercial negotiations, testing and commissioning and operational start-up.

Key Team Members

Key Team Members

Paul Dunne | DirectorPaul is a Director of Arup and leads the Building Services and Sustainability teams in Ireland. Paul has extensive experience in leading teams on a wide variety of projects in Ireland and overseas with a strong track record on projects in the ICT sector.

Paul has extensive experience in leading multi disciplinary teams on a wide variety of projects, which include all sectors from industrial to institutional and retail to commercial. Paul has been closely involved in the development of sustainable solutions for a number of projects, bringing the full range of Arup skills together to develop holistic solutions which deliver effective and commercially sustainable solutions for the businesses he works with.

Steve Campbell-Ferguson | UKMEA Data Centre Business LeaderSteve’s most recent roles have dealt with design and implementation of large industrial and technical facilities with key involvement in the integration and coordination of process engineering solutions into the building and utilities system designs.

Steve manages large design teams, located across multiple locations and liases with multiple clients, contractors and third party (e.g. regulatory) stakeholders.

Experience has been gained in Eastern Europe and Russia where Steve was based for four years as Commercial Projects Business Area Manager and M&E team leader.

Key Team Members

Christian Allison | Project DirectorChristian leads a civil/structural team within Buildings Engineering London, focused on the design and delivery of heavily serviced building projects in the Science & Industry, Financial Services and Waste sectors.

Christian acts as Project Director for both civil/structural and multi-disciplinary engineering teams. He also leads the relationship with clients Goldman Sachs, Digital Realty Trust and Clugston Construction across these sectors.

Tom BlakeTom Blake is a chartered electrical engineer with over 20 years experience in the design and construction of data centres. Tom has led the Mechanical and Electrical design team in the Limerick office since 2002 and Dell is one of his major clients. Tom has specialised in data centre design and applies his expertise to many such projects across Europe.

Tom lectures on Building Services for Construction Industry federation programmes. Tom ia an accredited Tier Designer from the Uptime Institute.

Liam Luddy | Europe Science and Industry Business Leader Liam Luddy is a Director of Arup and Manager of our Cork office. Liam has worked with Arup for over twenty seven years and has been responsible for leading design teams on some of our most significant projects.

Liam currently leads a team of Building Engineering and Project Management professionals responsible for delivery of projects in the Life Sciences, Technology, Health and Energy sectors. Clients for whom this team currently provide services include Merck, Stryker, Novartis, EMC, Cork University Hospital, Bord Gais and SSE.

Liam leads our business team in Europe with responsibility for the Science and Industry portfolio. This allows knowledge and experience transfer in our teams across sectors and geographies bringing added value to our clients.

Paul DunneDirector

50 Ringsend Road, Dublin 4

t +353 (01) 233 4265 e [email protected]

Andrew HarrisonDirector

13 Fitzroy Street, London

t +44 20 7755 3019 e [email protected]

Tom BlakeAssociatte Director

Arup,Hartstonge House,Upper Hartstonge Street

t +353 (0) 61 21 2115 e [email protected]

Liam Luddy

Director

15 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork


Christian AllisonDirector

13 Fitzroy Street, London


Steve Campbell-FergusonAssociate Director

Blythe Gate,Blythe Valley Park, Birmingham


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