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“A ‘flue first’ approach, in which build stakeholders collaborate with experts as part of the project’s critical path is key to avoiding handover issues after the build or commissioning process.”
work. Alongside disrupting already pressurised timescales, such delays to project completion may result in reputational damage and potential fines for contractors and other involved HVAC professionals.
Critical component, critical path
These consequences should underline why flues should not be treated as an afterthought on data centre construction projects. In fact, the opposite should be the case. A ‘flue first’ approach, in which build stakeholders collaborate with experts as part of the project’s critical path is key to avoiding handover issues after the build or commissioning process. Involving third-party proficiency in the design process, including ensuring sufficient testing takes place, can also help avoid on-site clashes between contractors responsible for different aspects of the build. Similarly, with many data centres now being constructed in urban locations due to lower latency, the need for effective flue design is further underlined. Indeed, data from the Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Analysis 2023 points
out, the number of outages that have not been fully recovered after 48 hours is rising. As areas with high population densities are subject to more stringent noise pollution and emissions regulations, keeping loud backup generators online for longer time periods may present its own problems. Yet with a ‘flue-first’ strategy, this would no longer be a concern for businesses taking over new data centres. In conclusion, incorporating flue design into the earliest stages of a building’s
critical path can ensure fewer operational issues and peace-of-mind for eventual facility owners and operators. By specifying effective and reliable components, redundancy levels and backup power can be supported, avoiding future costly adjustments. Additionally, this approach is vital to eliminating recurring challenges that could hamper the ambitious rollout of data centre infrastructure required for the future demand, allowing for timely construction and delivery of robust facilities. It is in the context of wider-scale trends like these that the value of the often-overlooked flue can be seen.
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