The wide range of projects that he has worked on ensures that he can understand the requirements of different groups of end users and how these can be brought together in a sustainable and flexible engineering solution.. Graham is an acknowledged expert in both the design and commissioning of Biological Services Units to meet government regulatory requirements as well as the design of ACDP Containment Level 3 facilities and other complex R&D facilities.

We analyse the effects of altering the hot return ceiling void depths, extent of hot aisle containment, aisle pitches and reducing FFLs.This drives the reduction of the economic and carbon cost of the building and reduce building footprint..

Structural Options –.Various structural options can be considered to minimise material usage and reduce building height, carbon, and cost, whilst not compromising cooling performance.. CFD can provide evidence during the design process to minimise design risk and help optimise data hall designs further.This allows the design to be improved across all disciplines.

Below is an example of a structural study, looking at how structural options affect the air pressures within the data hall.. Pressure Plots from a recent Structural Optimisation CFD Analysis Study.External CFD Model.

External CFD analysis plays a crucial role in data centre design by assessing the risk of hot air being entrained by cooling equipment.

We can identify potential design risks and understand prevalence and impact.And while they have been historically carbon heavy in their production, they also have the potential, in fact, to lessen carbon emissions in certain areas.. One positive example we are seeing of the increased use of industrial plastics is engineered plastics adding benefit as alternative building materials.

By reducing costs through lightening loads, and acting as better insulators to increase heating efficiency, industrial plastics have clear scope to deliver substantial cost benefits.These materials are useful, therefore, and we shouldn’t discount their potential in this area because of their historically carbon emission heavy synthesis.. Our goal, therefore, is to find ways to make the production of industrial plastics less reliant on fossil fuels and to reduce their carbon footprint as much as possible..

The way we are focusing on achieving this is through carbon capture, which reduces emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) during synthesis by capturing emitted carbon dioxide and reusing it in other stages of the plastics manufacturing process..Carbon Capture and Utilisation vs Carbon Capture and Storage.