Modular data center firm Secure I.T. Environments (SITE) has completed a cooling upgrade on the main data center at the NHS Royal Free Hospital in London, UK.
The project was completed in nine weeks and saw the replacement of end-of-life cooling infrastructure.
SITE said the existing cooling infrastructure was replaced with four GEA 18D Multi-DENCO down flow close control direct expansion air handling systems and four DENCO ambient air-cooled condensers.
The upgrade will see the installation achieve PUE values of 1.15 or less.
Chris Wellfair, projects director at SITE, said: “At all times we had to consider that this was a fully operational hospital, with a tight project window to ensure completions before summer temperatures hit.
“We installed temporary cooling to ensure concurrent maintainability of existing services at all times, as well as carefully managing all logistics through multi-departmental planning at the Trust across properties, estates, and IT.”
SITE originally built the hospital’s primary data center in 2010. The Royal Free Hospital serves thousands of patients receiving acute and specialist services, including transplant patients.
The company has now been tasked with implementing a cold aisle containment at Royal Free’s data center and providing UPS upgrades at another NHS data center.
UK-based SITE specializes in the build and installation of modular and micro data centers for private, healthcare, education, and government sectors. The company delivered a micro data center to Barnet Hospital’s ICU last June.
Most recently, the company upgraded the NHS data center in the Isle of Wight in July this year.
The company has provided similar containerized micro data centers for Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital and Johnson Service Group, in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
SITE has also provided data center modules for Proximity Data Centres at the company’s Nottingham facility. In 2019, the Thurrock County Council received a 234 sqm (2,500 sq ft) facility for £560,000 ($719,000 at the time).
