Heat rejection within data centres: the path to optimisation

Gabrielli, Paolo, et al,.

It needs to have a cafe and offices — it’s a mixed use type building aimed at supporting the community.I do group work with them and help them work out how to incorporate all the M&E services into their building, but also give them a focus on sustainable design.

Mostly, it’s trying to get them to think about getting adequate daylight in, which is quite interesting with the facade they’ve got because they have to reuse it, so they don’t have many options to make the windows bigger.They’ve got to think of a more interesting way of doing it.I’ve given them some homework and this time they are going to be presenting their daylighting to me.

They all have fully glazed facades on the south facing, so it’s trying to get them to think about the fact it’s going to overheat and they have to look at solar shading and passive design measures.The overarching premise is getting them to think from an architectural perspective about how they can influence the environmental design of the building.

If they do it now whilst they’re still at uni, when they get into practice they can apply the principles more easily, which not only makes the M&E teams’ jobs better, but also, ultimately, delivers a better, more efficient, building to their client.. IP: In general, are architects as focused on this area as they could be?.

HH: In general, no.This demonstrates a consistency of thinking which should be quite reassuring.

TIP 2021 is just a more detailed roadmap, and this should be helpful to people if they are struggling with the concepts.Of course, we do run the risk that the term “kit-of-parts” itself is becoming so commonly used now that it may become misused, an issue we’ve seen happen with other MMC nomenclature.

We don’t want to create a plethora of kits-of-parts, as value and quality of delivery will be ensured by harmonising those approaches, systems and processes.. We also don’t want people to feel so overwhelmed at the thought of everything changing that they ignore what’s happening and never begin.We need to try and articulate the way of doing this as clearly as possible.