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Data Centre Essentials
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Data Centre Essentials

by Vincent Fogarty, Sophia Flucker
July 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
7h 23m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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6Building a Data Centre: Stakeholders, Design, Construction, and Commissioning

Stakeholders and Project Stages

Data centres are a complex ecosystem with many stakeholders from different disciplines interacting at different phases of the facility lifetime. How successfully these stakeholders communicate and share information is essential to the performance of the facility.

The data centre’s lifecycle comprises different stages. In the United Kingdom, the RIBA Plan of Work1 indicated in Figure 6.1 is commonly used to define building project stages.

There are several key interface points between project stages and stakeholders, where information and knowledge are transferred2:

Schematic illustration of project stages extracted from RIBA’s plan of work.

Figure 6.1 Project stages extracted from RIBA’s plan of work.

Item Interface Purpose
Design brief Client/designer Outline requirements/objectives
Specifications Designer/contractor Define requirements for installation and operation
Handover record information including Operating and maintenance (O&M) manuals, record drawings, commissioning records, training Contractor/operator Reference material for what is installed and how to operate it
Post‐handover review Operator/project team Feedback on how the facility operates in reality and how this might be improved from an operability perspective. Lessons learned for future designs.

The O&Ms often do not contain information about the design philosophy ...

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