The Data Center industry is one of the fastest growing industries today.  Increasing requirements for data warehousing/computing, the explosive growth in the social networking environment and the growing popularity of “Cloud” applications are stressing the industry’s ability to build new facilities quickly enough to meet this demand.

Data Centers require reliability exceeding six 9’s, enhanced data collection to better control the performance of the facility and reduced energy use generating improved profitability.  This has forced the industry to take a fresh look at current Data Center designs.   Furthermore, “Time to Market” will continue to be critical as owners look for a faster ROI.  These business drivers have fostered creative designs and unique solutions addressing these requirements.

Wunderlich-Malec has extensive experience in the Data Center industry both in the traditional Data Center and industry changing designs.  Our experience has been focused primarily on helping implement superior facility systems (Building Management System).  The bases for our designs come from 20+ years of experience with similar applications in complimentary industries.

Our systems approach has been focused on these underlying principles:

• Designs meeting 99.9999%+ reliability

• “Off-The-Shelf” (OTS) industrial components and software

• Unitary control

• N+1 mechanical reliability

• Leveraging leading edge technology

• Increasing operational data collection / analysis

• Traditional and creative cooling solutions

Our teams have designed and built multiple Data Centers on schedule and within budget.  Our design principles have created extremely reliable systems allowing any piece of electrical, mechanical or control component to fail without impact to the facility.   Using open industrial OTS controls allows development of control strategies not allowed with traditional DDC solutions improving system performance.  Unitary control aids in delivering an operational facility as quickly as possible by allowing equipment to be commissioned as it becomes available, not once the infrastructure/network backbone is installed and working.  The increased environmental and operational data monitoring allows owners to better understand the environment inside the data center to help optimize energy usage.  Improved integration to the mechanical and electrical equipment allows for enhanced power monitoring, diagnostics and equipment performance.