Seminar: Data Centre Design (IET members only)

Oval Conference Centre : London Continual growth in the demand on IT infrastructure (and industry's dependence on it) means that it is increasingly important to have reliable and resilient IT data centres. This seminar identifies and explains many of the factors that go into good data centre design.

It will provide guidance on a number of important topics within an increasingly important industry sector, dealing with good practice in data centre design. This seminar is aimed at Professional Engineers in the mechanical and electrical trades who wish to better understand an holistic approach to the subject of data centre design. The seminar has been developed for Cabling Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Facilities and IT Managers; to give them a broad outline of all the disciplines involved in designing a data centre. It allows them to reach a high level design stage that can then be responded to by professionals, expert in their specific areas.

This seminar will also be of interest to:

• Mechanical Building Services Engineers
• Electrical Building Services Engineers
• Consulting Engineers
• M&E Contracting Engineers
• Technician Engineers
• Facility Managers
• Facility Engineers
• IT and Systems Engineers

Date: 27 September 2006

Timings for the Day

10:00 - 10:30 Introduction

10:30 - 11:00 Introduction to data centres

11:00 - 11:15 Tea/Coffee

11:15 - 11:45 Architectural and building requirement

11:45 - 12:30 HVAC requirements and options

12:30 - 13:15 Lunch

13:15 - 13:45 Power supplies and UPS

13:45 - 14:15 Data Cabling: High performance and low fire-risk choice

14:15 - 14:30 Tea/Coffee

14:30 - 15:30 Questions etc

This will be a free event at no cost to the IET Member. The total teaching time of the seminar will be approximately four hours.