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PODCASTS & WEBINARS New!!! Panel discussion: The great battery debate - which energy storage technologies are leading the charge? ​ Date: July 21st, 2021 Presented by: Steven Shapiro, PE, ATD New!!! Podcast - Repurposing a Data Center ​ ​ Date: April 21st, 2021 ​ Presented by: Derek Niece Podcast - Fire Protection & Life Safety: Colo vs. Enterprise vs. Federal Design, budgets, aspiration detection, and new technologies. Date: November 3rd, 2020 Presented by: Bella Treyger Podcast - Public Sector: Trends/Issues in Mission Critical. ​ Date: August 21st, 2020 Presented by: Colin Coyle Panel: How to build at scale and speed in a new era - what has COVID-19 taught us? ​ Date: July 9th, 2020 Presented by: Brian Whelan Interview: The Value of an Interconnected Ecosystem: Customer Spotlight, NYU ​ Date: May 15th, 2020 Guest: David Ackerman Webinar - Top issues when considering a Data Center Transaction: Co-location Services, Financial Requirements & Contracting SLA’s Date: December 5th, 2019 Presented by: Kevin Sanders and Jeffrey A. Moerdler Albireo Energy Webinar - Data Center Centric Energy Procurement ​ Date: March 6th, 2019 Presented by: Yigit Bulut Webinar 2 - Understanding the economic advantages of a hybrid cloud environment Date: November 16th, 2018 Presented by: Derek Niece Podcast - Net-Zero Carbon Data Centers: Decentralizing Consensus Among Utility and Microgrid Power Supply ​ Date: May 27th, 2021 Presented by: Matthew Karashik Podcast - Data Center 2030: Sustainability and Green Gas House (GHG) abatement ​ Date: March 11st, 2021 Presented by: Yigit Bulut Starting Procurement as Far Left as Possible: Fast-Tracking Your Procurement Strategy to Avert Project Delays ​ Date: November 17th, 2020 Presented by: Steven Shapiro, PE, ATD Panel discussion: How's the facility manager view of critical power changing as data centers become more complex? Date: July 22st, 2020 Panelist: Steven Shapiro, PE, ATD Podcast - Pharmaceutical: Addressing Some of the many challenges pharmaceutical companies face. ​ Date: July 6th, 2020 Presented by: Kevin Sanders Podcast - Higher Education: Addressing Academic, Administrative, and other distributed Departmental and Research needs. ​ Date: May 1st, 2020 ​ Presented by: Kevin Sanders Webinar - A New Model for High-Performance Computing Adoption in the Higher-Ed Marketplace Date: September 26th, 2019 Presented by: Kevin Sanders and Raul K. Martynek Albireo Energy Webinar - Energy Services for Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll ​ Date: December 7th, 2018 Presented by: Scott Wilson and Rob Myers Webinar 1 - Data Center Sourcing for enterprise organizations and institutions Date: November 9th, 2018 Presented by: Kevin Sanders & Robert Myers , CDCDP Podcast - The Importance of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Data Center Equipment Yard Layout ​ ​ Date: April 27th, 2021 Presented by: Gardson Githu Podcast: Trends/Issues in Banking & Finance ​ Date: November 4th, 2020 Presented by: Kevin Sanders Panel discussion: From PDU to server: is innovation across critical power on the horizon? ​ Date: October 15th, 2020 Presented by: Steven Shapiro, PE, ATD Striking the right balance between keeping it simple and complexity in the mission-critical environment ​ Date: July 21st, 2020 Presented by: Steven Shapiro, PE, ATD Interview: The Value of an Interconnected Ecosystem: Data Center Migration Date: May 29th, 2020 Guest: Kevin Sanders Podcast - Hospitals & Healthcare: Top critical issues and recommendations. Date: January 9th, 2020 ​ Presented by: Kevin Sanders Webinar - The Future of UPS Systems - Battery Technologies: Transitioning from Old to New Date: May 2nd, 2019 Presented by: Steven Shapiro , PE, ATD Webinar 3 - Operate your data center effectively ​ Date: November 30th, 2018 Presented by: Trish Ray & Ian Levine 451 HCTS Interview with our Managing Partner of EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll Date: September 24th, 2018 Presented by: Richard S. Einhorn

LEADERSHIP Leadership Team Richard S. Einhorn Managing Partner Brian Whelan, PMP Managing Partner Trish Ray Partner David Eisenband Partner Scott Wilson, PE Partner Steven Shapiro, PE Partner John Zanzano, PE, ATD Partner Colin M. Coyle, AIA Partner Yigit Bulut, PE Partner K evin Sanders Principal Consultant, Data Center Strategy Peter Gross, PE Advisory Board Chairman Kelly LeValley Advisory Board Christopher A. Oliver Advisory Board Henry Daunert Advisory Board

The Transformation of your College, University & Research Institution data center strategy can ultimately play a significant role in improving student success. Many factors contribute to the need to transform. These include rapid data growth, exchange of information within applications and multiple providers, and the need to maintain privacy standards, resiliency requirements, backup, synchronization, latency, and connectivity within the multi-cloud environment. Our experts will assist in developing a plan to address these issues and more. What's driving the change The challenges facing information technology needs in Higher Education are growing exponentially. Historically, facility support has largely led to multiple data centers serving Academic, Administrative, and other distributed Departmental and Research needs. The very nature of the academic mission led to this diversity of facilities, generally housed in buildings where competition for space to support that mission made expansion or remediation of data centers difficult and costly. Additionally, the distributed nature of older facilities keeps operating costs high and limits the adoption of new technologies. Some of the many challenges and observations that Colleges and Universities are facing includes: Facility budgets under pressure and have difficulty competing for the capital and operating expense budgets needed to support a growing, diverse demand. Growing costs for third-party services to help manage and operate older data centers. Existing data centers, those 10 to 20 years old, that are part of a potential consolidation plan, do not have a clear path to a solution that is institution-wide in consensus for change. Operating costs continue to be high due to older design and energy efficiency capabilities. Out of date governance and operations procedures impede rapid deployment or do not enforce standards needed to safely operate all types of data centers. Moving workloads to the Cloud or to Software as a Service is often done in an uneven fashion and do not take advantage of good decision analysis for their use. Many times, these decisions are done at the departmental or application level and do not take advantage of the potential for total institution scale. Expected cost savings may not be achieved or may not take into consideration the collateral effect on cost to the data centers that supported the migrated workloads. “Ghost IT and Cloud” use (casual, unauthorized, or unknown use of cloud or on-premise use of space for IT assets) represents a cost and risk that can be difficult to capture but can be critical to understanding total costs. The need for High-Performance Computing (HPC) has expanded beyond the traditional mathematics and scientific communities. The need to support “Big Data” is a growing part of every curriculum and research area. HPC demands higher density capabilities for power and cooling that most existing Higher Ed infrastructure cannot accommodate. Alternative data center sourcing strategies need to be seriously considered. Often the use of Colocation facilities that might not be in close physical proximity to the institution are difficult to gain consensus for even though considerable cost savings may attach, and there isn’t a critical, confirmed, requirement for daily on-site access. ​ Ability to cope with special circumstances such as the Covid 19 lockdown: Older on-premise data centers were not designed to be low touch or lights out and rely on facility and IT personnel for daily operations. The requirement to support online delivery of courseware is challenging network, compute, and storage capabilities. Increased need for media production facilities for distance learning. Preventing “guard down” security attacks due to volume of network activity or launching of new services. ​ How can you meet these requirements? ​ Solutions to data center facility and associated challenges are complex but they can be faced through focused campus-wide analysis and short/long term master planning. It is common to react with tactical solutions that are not useful in the long term. A Data Center Strategy meets the objectives of addressing the challenges detailed above by developing solution scenarios that vary in cost, time, complexity, and risk to implement. It starts with a rapid assessment of your current environment and pivots to the needs of your future state IT, application, and cloud / SaaS architectures. It should also include an assessment of the network infrastructure inclusive of bandwidth requirements to match any future state changes. The process itself helps to gain consensus through the inclusion of multiple communities of interest. It helps build a plan that is focused on coping with change rather than being a static solution. It addresses capital and operating costs as equal in importance to the technical solution. It develops total cost of ownership forecasts for each solution scenario to understand the impact of technology, implementation, and growth in scale of any plan. What services are included ? Present state data center analysis including IT and network architectures, application portfolio and opex/capex budgets. Evaluation of the technical infrastructures of each legacy data center to understand capacity, resiliency, remediation, and growth potential. Cost and associated risks are used as measures for determining if any legacy facilities are good candidates for modernization. This might include any off-premise data center including the use of exiting colocation deployments and cloud / SaaS environments. ​ ​ Workshops with the academic. administrative and research communities to understand: Future state planning. Key data center technical requirements. Application portfolio needs and growth. Security and compliance issues. Financial guidelines for developing solution scenario opex and capex budgets. ​ Development of the future state through: Modeling of IT requirements. Developing the right mix of on-premise and colocation data center space, use of cloud and SaaS. Creating alternate strategies with associated costs. Analyzing best-phased implementation timelines and associated risks. Develop a set of presentations to assist in the dissemination of results and report outs to gain both technical, financial, and senior-level approval. Case Studies ​ Confidential University Iowa City, IA LEED Platinum Data Center Design One of the University’s old data centers, serving the core Information Technology Services (ITS) group, was outgrowing its space in a 100-year-old building, which was far from ideal for an optimized IT environment. The Health Care Information Services (HCIS) group, serving the university’s hospitals and clinics, was also outgrowing its home. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll helped University of Iowa providing the design and commissioning of a Tier III Data Center Facility, this Information Technology Facility became the university's first LEED Platinum building. and is believed to be the first educational institution data center with that certification. Confidential University and Research Institution Data Center Multi-Cloud Strategy 1.5MW Data Hall with HPC The client was looking to perform a comprehensive Data Center and Multi-Cloud Strategy that included the capacity of the existing facilities, a cloud adoption analysis to quantify the IT infrastructure cost drivers that move to the public cloud, a future state planning and a co-location RFI process and Load requirements. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll evaluated the condition and capacity of four main data centers and up to 15 server rooms. The project includes an application Cloud Adoption Service, Co-Location selection and a data center hall MEP design of a new High-Performance Data Center. This 1.5 MW data hall will house an HPC computer that will put this university in the top 15 research institutions in the US. Confidential University Exeter, England Site Evaluation/Master Plan EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll conducted a site survey at the University Data Centers. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll determined the extent of the infrastructure build-out required to provide the necessary power and cooling to the computer system. The proposed infrastructure solution took into account the relatively short-life expectancy of the system (4 years) and provided the necessary power and cooling to suit the exact requirements of the computer equipment, which will allow for the most economic power and cooling systems to be installed. Confidential University Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana, IL Data Center Master Planning EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided a master planning that included determining the best options for data center consolidation, feasibility study, programming, data center layout, development of power and cooling loads and high-level design concepts, and ROM construction cost estimating. The University data center building has 81,000 SF and is capable to host almost 30,000 SF of scalable HPC machine rooms. Confidential University Notre Dame, IN Data Center Master Plan EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll interviewed key stakeholders, users, and executives, including the new VP of Research, and provided strategic consulting services to deliver a high-level assessment of the overall enterprise data center technologies and facilities architecture. Completed a study outlining existing deficiencies and gaps with the current data centers and provided the University recommendations for remedies for moving forward. Determined the best options for data center and server room consolidation and determined the requirements for a purpose-built data center to accommodate future enterprise and supercomputing needs. Services ​​ ​​ Data Center Strategy Data Center Sourcing Strategy ​Application Cloud Readiness Assessment Data Center Design Data Center Commissioning Infrastructure Condition and Capacity Analysis Data Center Trusted Advisor Co-Location Strategy Data Center Due Diligence Webinars ​ ​ ​ Top issues when considering a Data Center Transaction: Co-location Services Understanding the economic advantages of a hybrid cloud environment ​ Podcasts ​ Technology for Higher Education & Research Special Guest: Kevin Sanders Managing Principal, Data Center Consulting & Strategy EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll Indiana University Bloomington, IN Space, Power, Cooling TCO Strategy Tier III 80,000 SF EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided a space, power and cooling strategy that included the cost estimating, design, and construction administration of a Tier 3, 80,000 SF data center as part of Indiana University's Cyber Infrastructure Building. The research portion will be designed so it is expandable to accommodate petascale computers at anticipated load densities of over 300 W/sq. ft. Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY Nanotechnology Data Center Design EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided design for a new Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovation (CCNI). The computational power of the current hardware configuration is rated at over 12 PF peak. The project included the conversion of an existing manufacturing building into a new, state of the art computing facility. The data center will include 5,000 SF of 48" raised floor area at 250-300 Watts/SF. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA Site Evaluation and Data Center Design EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected by LSU to provide a Feasibility Study that encompasses the following planning services: • Site Utilities Infrastructure Capacity Assessment, Gap Analysis and Planning • Conceptual Design to Develop ROM Construction Cost Estimate • Assistance with Design and Construction Schedule Development (including identification of major long-lead procurement items) Northwestern University Evaston, IL Data Center Master Plan EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll conducted group interviews with the research and administrative computing committee, provided a technology and facilities needs analysis, gap assessment, master planning, and facility specifications. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll's master plan included current- and future-state data center tier classification and space, power, and cooling requirements; future-state facility, technology, and infrastructure recommendations; conceptual spatial, electrical, and mechanical layouts/specifications and ROM cost estimates Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Data Center Master Plan ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll collaborated with Purdue to provide an independent analysis and assessment of their entire data center enterprise, encompassing both business and research computing, that involves a current-state assessment, analysis of ITaP’s (IT at Purdue’s) master plan and proposed capital expenditures on facilities an infrastructure, and a validation of Purdue’s cost estimates and priorities. These analyses were used to provide improvements to the current facilities infrastructure, as well as move forward with future-state plans and developments to the overall data processing capabilities for the entire university model and operations. University of California at San Diego San Diego California Site Evaluation/Master Plan/Retrofit The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California at San Diego plays a major role in building a national cyberinfrastructure. SDSC engaged EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll for Data Center Assessment, CFD Modeling, and Master Planning services for upgrade/expansion scenarios. ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided the design for upgrades to the data center based on the findings and recommendations presented in its study. ​ University of California, Berkley Berkley, CA Energy Efficiency Assessment/Energy Monitoring Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL), home of the Department of Energy’s National Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), is a global leader in scientific computing and networking. The University of California and LBNL selected EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll to collaborate on a data center benchmarking project. The project consisted of collecting data from a series of data centers to establish a best practice protocol with respect to energy efficiency. Energy monitoring was used to quantify the energy use of the racks, HVAC systems, and other loads, as well as supply temperatures and flows. HIGHER EDUCATION & RESEARCH Description Case studies Services Webinars Podcasts Contact us Covid-19 Description Case Studies Services Webinars Podcast

Offering solutions to advance our client's sustainability goals to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 Service Overview ​ Working side-by-side with facilities, operations, IT, real estate, and finance specialists, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll professionals analyze a customer’s key business metrics and sustainability goals to develop innovative and sustainable engineering strategies, designs, and operational solutions. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provides these services from the master planning, through the concept, detailed design and prototyping of both new building(s); to a more water and energy-efficient solution for existing facility(ies). Our team continues through all the subsequent design phases leading to stamped/sealed construction documents and permitting suitable for bid, or a CM-generated GMP. At the conclusion of design, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll continues into the construction administration phase for oversight of design intent, and potential value engineering opportunities. Our independent commissioning team assures all systems are complete and functioning properly upon the owner’s acceptance. They will review and verify documentation, like test reports and as-built drawings, reflect the completed systems as they perform. They further formalize and orchestrate the familiarization and training of operating personnel with this new building infrastructure. This end-to-end approach ultimately assures our clients their mission-critical project is built in accordance with the design intent. ​ In existing buildings, we begin by providing a site survey of the existing facility to uncover the opportunities and challenges inherent to offering an energy and/or water-efficient approach. From there, we focus our service on not only the most sustainable option, but also the most more operationally straightforward and effective approach. Our highly qualified and credentialed team is actively involved with organizations and committees currently developing standards for LEED, Fitwel, Living Building Challenge, and ASHRAE 189.1 Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings. We have successfully completed projects incorporating client-specific sustainability requirements including UFC 1-200-02 High Performance and Sustainable Building Requirements while utilizing a range of tools that analyze building performance to develop practical solutions that uncover the hidden value in your assets. These include: Building Energy Modeling to reduce your energy profile and operating costs BLCC to evaluate first cost over life cycle cost THERM and WUFI analysis to improve thermal comfort Daylighting studies to ensure health and well-being RELi principles to build resilient infrastructures Embodied carbon analysis to manage the climatic impact Plan for Net Zero using every tool we’ve got. If we don’t have the right on, we’ll develop it! Whether it’s new construction or renovation, sustainability is a mindset that must be planned and designed into a project right from the start. Our approach is to bake these ideas it into the process from day one. We apply sustainability tools and thinking from the start, as an integral part of our consulting and design service, not as an overlay or additional service offering, but as core to our practice. This approach enables us to have conversations about how to orient the building to maximize daylight and minimize heating and cooling; what are the most cost-effective and energy-efficient materials to promote wellness; or how to add value by doing more with less and making choices with multiple, inherent impacts. We bring our knowledge, coupled with the right data to think creatively and push boundaries with real-time, immediate parametric feedback. How can we help? ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll ’s experience includes 20+ LEED Certified projects (including the world’s very first LEED-certified data center, and multiple LEED Platinum Certified Data Centers) in different regions, including North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Our consultants are accredited to the highest LEED standards and have participated in creating new standards and metrics for organizations like the US Green Building Council, Energy Star, ASHRAE, and the Green Grid Group. These professionals were also integral to the development of the new metric: Infrastructure Usage Effectiveness (IUE) proposed last year by the Chinese efficiency body: The Green Gauge China (TGCC). ​ This year, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll announced a collaboration with our global partner i3 Solutions Group to offer a response to the climate crisis through Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction initiatives, including a practical roadmap of progressive GHG abatement for existing data centers and critical facilities, and eventually net-zero GHG data centers and critical facilities by 2030. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll is also advancing projects designed for alternative sources of power, microgrids, and new cooling technologies (Including evaporated cooling and immersion cooling). Rounding out EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll ’s commitment to sustainability, our operations consulting team offers a comprehensive list of services that help reduce power consumption, water usage and curb operational and energy costs in the data center/critical facility. ​ Case Studies ​ High Efficiency Off The Grid Datacenter Beacon Falls, CT 160,000 SF (Raised Floor) 28 MW of IT Load EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll’s Master Plan for this Tier III data center developer is premised on the capture of CO2 from the fuel cells to use for beverage production. ​ The site will utilize a 32 MW fuel facility with gas-fired generators as the primary power source, using the utility as backup capacity. The facility will use a chilled water central plant with centrifugal chillers to provide an absorption mechanical system. 300 Acre Data Center Campus with a 500+MW Utility-Scale Solar Facility Laramie, WY 300-acre Data Center Campus 25-200 MW EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll developed the conceptual design, building budget, and cost of power analysis for a new data center expected to have 25MW capacity Day 1, with the ability to scale to 200MW over time. ​ Set in a data center business park, to be located on 300-acres of privately-owned land designated as a Federal Opportunity Zone, the project also calls for a 500+MW Utility-Scale Solar Facility on up to 12,000-acres of the client's Ranch located in southeast Wyoming. Gas Turbines Low Emission Data Center Martinsburg, WV Greenfield Data Center 2 x 350,000 SF (Raised Floor) EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided master planning and detailed design for a site capable of housing two 350,000 SF, 78MW data centers with a critical design load for the site of 104MW. ​ The project intends to use GE gas turbines as the primary power source and will include a unique and proprietary Linde/BASF carbon capture technology to eliminate all emissions from turbines. The facility is planned to utilize totally modular IT space, with mechanical and electrical Infrastructure using PVD Modular solutions. Immersion Cooling for Bitcoin Mining Coshocton, Ohio Data Center Campus Feasibility Study, Master Planning, Design 34 Units 70+MW EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll is providing a data center feasibility study, master planning, and detailed design to convert an existing manufacturing site into a Bitcoin mining campus. ​ The project design specifications include 34 modular data center units and will utilize liquid immersion cooling to run the heat intensive data mining technologies. Eco-Focused Renewable Design Reno, NV Tier III+ Greenfield 4-5 Data Centers, 200,000 SF each site EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll is providing Master Plan services for this Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in designing a master plan for a 4-5 data center development. Each data center will be designed and constructed in a modular fashion to facilitate growth and expansion and limit Day 1 CapEx. The facilities will be designed to Tier IV electrical and Tier III mechanical redundancy. The initial power station will cover 25MW, expandable to 200MW, and will have an eco-focused renewable design, including geo-thermal power plants and solar farms. Colocation WUE Metering, Equipment Usage Schedule Review, and Water Quality Report 15 Data Centers EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will provide this confidential colocation provider a review and input on water metering locations for HVAC equipment for 15 data center sites in the United States and Canada. ​ The study will review overall HVAC water-consuming equipment at each site and provide input for water metering for water usage efficiency (WUE). The study and analysis include the review of existing water distribution drawings; equipment shop drawings; input for best water metering locations; meters available for BMS interconnection; and the existing water usage monitoring scheme. Based on this analysis, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will make recommendations on appropriate water usage measurement metrics to be used at each site. Services ​ ​ Engineering Infrastructure Sustainable Design (MEP & Fire Protection): Comprehensive sustainable services in mechanical, electrical and plumbing design, as well as fire protection and fuel, control, and security systems for data centers and critical facilities. Sustainable MEP Retrofit and Refresh: Design services for new server rooms within existing data centers, and upgrades/expansions of existing facilities. Trusted Advisor: Subject matter expertise and engineering support for the design, construction, and operation of your data center and critical facilities ​ Energy Efficiency Analysis: Identifies mechanical, electrical and infrastructure sources of inefficiencies. Provides operational and maintenance practices to optimize energy efficiency. determines the carbon emissions from your facility's operations and outlines a roadmap of energy conservation measures that improve efficiency with an ROI analysis. ​ ​ Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC) Engineering Support: Support Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) to identify and implement energy savings initiatives and facility improvements that require no up-front capital costs to facility owners. This contracting model is particularly prevalent in government contracting. ​ Water Metering Monitoring: Review of existing water distribution drawings, equipment shop drawings, input for best water metering locations, meters available for BMS interconnection, and existing water usage monitoring schemes. Make recommendations on appropriate water usage measurement metrics to be used at a facility site. ​ ​ Cooling Tower Water Treatment System Study: Review and advise on cooling tower condenser water system installation, existing water treatment reports, and water quality reports. Space Planning: Analysis to create a complete technology space plan for critical infrastructure. Optimal Site Selection: Based on EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll innovation and industry-standard selection criteria that are custom-tailored to customer sustainability goals. ​ White Papers & Blogs ​ The Case for Natural Gas Generators: Standby power generation considerations for reducing data center carbon emissions By: Yigit Bulut, PE, ATD Partner, Lead Electrical Engineer, Chief Technology Officer at EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll. ​ West 7 Center: Using a Data Center Water Side Economizer on an existing facility to reduce water and energy usage By: Gardson Githu, PE, Senior Mechanical Engineer and Consultant at EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll.​ ​ Sustainability in Data Center Lighting Design By: Angelica K. Hermanto, PE, LC, LEED AP, Senior electrical engineer at EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll. ​ ​ ​ Podcasts ​ Net-Zero Carbon Data Centers: Decentralizing Consensus Among Utility and Microgrid Power Supply. Special Guest: Matthew J. Karashik is an Electrical Engineer at EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll. ​ Data Center 2030: Sustainability and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) abatement - Special Guest: Yigit Bulut, PE, ATD Partner, Lead Electrical Engineer, Chief Technology Officer at EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll SUSTAINABILITY Description Case studies Services Articles & Blogs Podcasts Contact us Description Case Studies Services Webinars Podcast

Leadership Richard S. Einhorn Managing Partner Rick was a founding member of the original EYP Mission Critical Facilities Group which was created as part of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering in 1997. Twenty years later, his passion for assisting enterprise, organizational, and service provider clients with their data center strategy and consulting needs is as strong as ever. “In the data center industry, change is constant, so it’s critical to always be thinking years ahead in terms of technology trends and the solutions that we need to create to enable our clients to deliver services to their customers. The experience EYP MCF has generated by being part of a global IT infrastructure leader the last ten years, gives us an unmatched understanding of how IT innovations and trends effect the data centers we design”. ​ Rick is a proven leader in creating, developing and managing highly profitable, rapidly growing professional service businesses and consulting enterprises, with over 20 years of private and public sector experience. He has been in an executive leadership role in two data center consulting organizations that have gone through acquisitions; one to a global private equity investment company, and the other to a Fortune 50 worldwide technology leader, ultimately serving as WW VP and managing multiple 100M+ global business at the latter. ​ His sustained career growth can be attributed to hard work, focus, leadership skills, and innovation in operations, marketing and business development for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) and IT industries. ​ Rick earned his Bachelor of Arts from the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University in 1992 and his master’s degree in business administration from Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management in 1997. He has also served as a legislative congressional aide focused on the IT sector in the US Congress. ​ reinhorn@eypmcfinc.com

PUBLIC SECTOR Assure operational continuity and redundant support systems on organizations and agencies whose missions require high-performance facilities. Description Case studies Services Webinars Podcasts Contact us Description Case Studies Services What's driving change The public sector is undergoing changes with their buildings driven by technology, and energy efficiency, and sustainability, targeting old and new buildings. Implementing the right strategy, with the right design, commissioning, monitoring, and maintenance programs will be essential to address these challenges while at the same time providing the flexibility to adapt to new technologies and future improvements. Some of the challenges include: Monitoring Smart Buildings: Reducing the carbon footprint, implementing new standards, monitoring, and upgrading existing MEP equipment to improve the workplace environment of the government employee while saving taxpayer money. Assessing the existing critical facilities: Evaluate the building's day to day operations and identify single points of failures (SPOF). Bridging the commissioning gap: Addressing and testing the performance of the MEP equipment and improving its maintenance, operations, and emergency programs. ​ ​ Align with the Cloud Smart Strategy: Help agencies drive the right cloud adoption that includes the right safe and secure cloud migration while achieving savings and delivering faster services. ​ ​ Addressing Cyber Risks to the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) or Building Automation Systems (BAS): Identify critical points of vulnerabilities and provide risk mitigation recommendations. ​ Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI): Helping agencies identify efficiency improvements while evaluating consolidation and closure of existing data centers. How can we help? On February 1st, 2018, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll spent a decade as a subsidiary of a global Fortune 100 information technology company. During that time, we expanded our practice into front-end strategy, planning, and programming, as well as operational consulting and small-scale, modular implementation. Additionally, our expertise as leaders in complex MEP engineering led us to advise government agencies on critical facility energy policy to reduce costs, and lower energy consumption, water usage, and greenhouse gas emissions. when the three “R’s and S’s” are the name of the game for your agency, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provides the reliability, redundancy, resiliency, sustainability, security, and survivability of our country’s most critical missions require. We are the global market leader in the strategic planning, assessment, design, and commissioning of these types of mission-critical assets that protect data, communication, and power systems from failure. Our expertise in federal design and program/project management covers the wide spectrum of government agencies, including the following: Key Differentiators We provide a sustainable, strategically flexible, and collaborative engineering and design solutions infused with the latest technology. Extensive worldwide data center project experience, we leverage our proven high-density cooling, critical power, and energy-reduction design strategies for each new business case. Our commissioning team includes members with diverse expertise, led by PEs, and backed by design experts. Our proposed resources are engineering professionals who have significant experience in completing complex projects, including data center designs with over 100 megawatts (MW) of power capacity and over 700,000 square feet of raised floor. Our Energy Management Services (EMS) Solutions deliver enterprise sustainability strategy and execution spanning IT, building, supply chain, and the workforce. EMS helps optimize energy use and costs, reduce emissions, and quickly access global enterprise energy information on an ongoing basis. Consistently providing upgrade work for critical facilities buildings that require recurrent upgrades on the MEP equipment or expanding capacities with every new technology refresh. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will help you identify requirements and plan your long-term data center strategy which integrates owned and colocation data centers together with cloud-based options. End to End Lifecycle services, providing you with professional program expertise and support throughout the process of planning, designing, constructing, or retrofitting mission-critical and data center facilities. Clients can tap into a wealth of data center expertise and rely on a partnership that brings our global experience to your doorstep. Experience managing multiple Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), GSA Schedule, task order contract, On-Call services. Case Studies Confidential environmental research organization Suitland, MD 60,000 SF 60MW EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll designed the infrastructure for this confidential environmental research organization's Satellite, Data, and Information Service Facility. This sophisticated environmental satellite control and operations center is designed to operate 24/7. Partially immersed into its site to minimize mass, maximize green space and provide energy efficiency, the building houses 140,000 SF of adaptable open office space and a 60,000-square-foot satellite control and operation center, all with a comprehensive energy management control (EMC) system. The new facility included a generator plant to provide standby power to all mission-critical spaces and systems. Its design allowed maintenance to be performed without shutting any part of the system down. In case of loss of power, the facility contains an emergency power distribution system. Confidential biomedical and public health research 5,400 SF ​ A portion of an existing office building (Approx. 5,400 SF) was repurposed into a new data center facility or Consolidated Computational Research Facility (CCRF). Work included extensive coordination with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, landscaping, vibration, and technology consultants. Mechanical systems work includes construction of a new bidirectional fault-tolerant chilled water distribution system teamed with in-row type chilled-water cooling units situated on the raised data floor. New heat exchangers, redundant chilled water pumps, chilled water storage tanks and controls, along with a local low ambient emergency air cooled chiller will be installed to support the data center cooling needs. Systems to include new interior and exterior distribution gear, automatic transfer switches, uninterruptible power supplies, transformers, power transformers, and remote power supplies. Special systems include fire alarm systems, access control, video surveillance, and paging. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll commissioned the new data center facility, wrote complete operational procedures for all components and systems, and worked with the client to vet those procedures. Confidential federal management agency Denver, CO 30,000 SF The agency's Denver location developed this Data Center to provide a modern facility to support another federal agency's computing needs at a second redundant data center site. Existing buildings were repurposed mainframe structures with highly inefficient power systems and no ability to support growth. The resulting 30,000 SF facility employed the Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD) concept and was phased for future expansion. Resting on a nine-acre site, this three-story mission-critical facility contained redundant features for failure and maintenance, with three 2.5MW generators, three 3,000 kVA unit sub transformers, a 115kV/35kV substation expansion, and a 35kV duct bank to the data center site. The project was completed on a fast-tracked 18-month schedule, necessary for “shovel ready” ARRA-funded projects. Confidential healthcare federal agency Coatesville, PA 2 Data Centers EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide design services to upgrade this client’s data centers with more than 30 years old. ​ The new systems incorporated an N+1 redundancy of all system components, for all areas served, and considering anticipated future loads. All systems were set up for ease of maintenance. ​ The scope included the reconfiguration of the data center space, the replacement of the raised floor area, and new mechanical and electrical equipment. 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Build your Blockchain & Cryptocurrency data center with standardized modular containerized solutions for mining, as well as the overall campus master plan and detailed design development for traditional new build, or renovation of existing facilities to crypto facilities. What's driving the change ​ Today, we also often see our developer clients first build crypto environments on their land, because of the ability to quickly set up mining operations and generate revenue, then in a second phase develop traditional data processing and storage data centers to attract cloud/hyperscale, colocation or enterprise and institutional data centers clients for both processing and blockchain transactions. How can you meet these requirements? The key is hiring the right Engineering and Architectural consultant in the early stages of the project to determine available power, work with the utility, identify any challenges with geo issues, develop concepts, and drive innovation. ​ These data centers are not only designed for the present of course, but through modularity can be easily retrofitted or expanded for the future -- to align to new developments in blockchain environments, cryptocurrencies, NFT’s, the metaverse, and Web 3. What are the differences between a traditional data center and a crypto data center? ​ ​ As shown in the below table, when designing a Blockchain Data Center or a Cryptocurrency Data Center the requirements are not equal to an enterprise or colocation data center. ​ ​ Title Enterprise Data Center Colocation Data Center Blockchain Data Center Cyrpto Mining Data Center ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) High Level Impact High Level Impact Low to High Level Impact Mid Level Impact Environmental Risks (Weather/Flood/Earthquake) High Level Impact High Level Impact Mid Level Impact Low Level Impact Cost for Construction ($/MW) High Mid to High Level Low to Mid Level Low Level Typical Facility Type Greenfield/Brownfield Greenfield/Brownfield Brownfield/Container Brownfield/Container Power Costs Low Level Impact Low Level Impact Mid Level Impact High Level Impact Redundancy High Level Mid to High Level Low to Mid Level Low Level Reliability High Level Mid to High Level Low to Mid Level Low Level Compute Environmental Controls Precision Precision General None Mechanical (Refrigeration Cooling) 2N, N+1, N+2 Central Plant 2N, N+1, N+2 Central Plant No Mechanical Cooling No Mechanical Cooling Generator 2N, N+1, N+2 N+1, N+2 N None UPS 2N N+1 N None Utility Capacity 5-50MW 25-50MW 50-100 MW 50-200 MW Utility Source N, 2N N, 2N N N Density Mid Level Mid to High Level High Level High Level N - Minimum number of capacity components for proper functionality Case Studies Bitcoin Mining Data Center Modular Data Center Project Coshocton, OH 34 Units ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide Data Center Feasibility Study, Master Planning, and detailed design to convert an existing manufacturing site into a Bitcoin Mining campus. Future phases will include traditional data center buildings for blockchain transactions. Phase one of the project was to include 34 modular units using the latest technology, including Immersion cooling to create a low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and obtain a high Return on Investment for this Data Center and its bitcoin miners. Cyrpto Mining Data Center Trusted Advisor, Commissioning Services Mooresville, NC Tier III+ 2 MW This Data Center Client was looking for a dependable and trusted Cx partner to help them with their first 2MW Data Center. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided trusted advisor support and verified the owner-performed commissioning and independently validate the integrated operation of all systems functioning together. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll’s MEP team performed a peer review of the design. EYP MCF’s commissioning team was also involved during the design phase providing a commissioning-focused design review to then collaborate with the client to develop pre-functional checklists and functional test scripts. ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll Cx team supported the client with the test and performance of the equipment being evaluated during integrated testing. Bitcoin Mining/Blockchain Data Center Data Center Retrofit and Prototype Design North America Size: 60,000 SF EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide a master plan for conversion of the existing warehouse building for reuse as a bitcoin mining/blockchain facility and/or data center. Detailed design will be in the second phase of the project. The requested services included a concept design to establish the project criteria and to select a preferred option for continued design implementation. Based on the design parameters of the New Brunswick concept design, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will develop prototypical master plan concept designs for four (4) incremental sized facilities. These prototypical designs would then be applied to and be site-adapted for future data centers from this same provider. The scale designs includes: Small – 6MW, Medium – 20MW to 50MW, Large 20MW to 50MW, and Very Large 50M+ Confidential Metaverse Provider Retrofit Design 15 Data Centers Multiple Locations (North America) EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide professional Engineering and Architectural services for this hyperscale provider. The requested services included the develop of an engineering and architectural design package for each data center, that will include all the drawings, schedules, and specifications for each equipment that needed to be upgraded, including the control panels, safety indictor lights & associated cabling, and appropriate signage. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will also reviewing local permitting and code requirements to verify if drawings are required to be submitted for permit review Confidential Metaverse Provider Retrofit Design 3 Data Centers Multiple Locations (North America) ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide professional Engineering and Architectural services for this hyperscale provider. The requested services included support for the design and construction administration at multiple data centers including final BOD (Basis of Design), advanced drawings including 1-line Electrical. Engineering calculations and analysis of existing loads, pre-purchase specifications and engineering drawings for all major mechanical and electrical long lead items, including preliminary sequence of operations. Delivery of final documents to the contractor for cost estimation. 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The transformation of the data center strategy in the pharmaceutical industry, associated life sciences and biotech research can ultimately play a significant role in improving their success. Many factors contribute to the need to develop new data center sourcing strategies. These include rapid data growth, the growing need to exchange research information between therapies in a company, the integration of research partners as well as new set of security challenges from nation state hacking all contribute to a growing complex environment. Pharma is also challenged by the need to maintain strict regulations and privacy standards, and stringent resiliency requirements. Core to all their data needs are strong disaster recovery plans, and connectivity within a multi-cloud hybrid environment. Our experts will assist in the analysis of present state capabilities and the development of a long-term strategic plan to address all these issues. What's driving the change ​ The pharmaceutical industry easily faces one of the most complex environments, particularly as it pertains to their data center facilities and enterprise IT architectures. Their challenges directly link to their distinct heterogeneous requirements. Some of the many challenges pharmaceutical companies face include: Integration: With multiple divisions, each with its own therapeutic missions spread throughout the world, harnessing the total data center investment necessary to meet these diverse requirements is the main challenge facing these organizations. ​ Enterprise data centers: Breaking down the normal data center approach by designing solutions that focus on the enterprise application base and its adoption/integration of cloud and SaaS-based solutions ​​ Research data centers: Defining and understanding the overriding role of research applications and their data warehousing requirements will have a profound effect on their design. Whether dedicated to High-Performance Computing (HPC); wet-lab data collection; or collaborative scientific research with peers, colleges and universities, and other biotechs, not all research data centers need the same strategy and design. ​ Challenges in data center design: Legacy air-cooling systems in existing data centers are becoming less effective, and more inefficient. As hardware footprints decrease and processing power increases the density produces an exponential heat footprint and the need for cooling solutions, like immersion and liquid cooling, that can meet the challenge. This drives costly data center reconstruction or the need for specialized colocation capabilities. The economics of either solution can be significant if not forecast correctly. ​ Multiple levels of regulation, validation, and certification for systems supporting research, clinical trials, and maintaining associated personal information/patient data: Any transformation and associated strategy is subject to both internal and regulatory review which can challenge the rapid deployment of new data center sourcing solutions. ​​ Pharmaceutical sales and marketing support to keep track of the order process and supply chain: Important to monitoring the communication and interconnectivity between doctor's offices, clinicians, other pharmaceuticals, distributors, and patients. ​​ Increase in Big data: Dealing with the massive data sets looking for trends, problems, or issues with each drug that is being developed or manufactured. ​ Multi-Cloud Strategy: Evaluating the cost to run applications in the public cloud, and the complex environment of validating and regulating these systems and data in the cloud. ​​​​ Covid-19: How do you develop methodologies to support the basic and applied research necessary to attack this threat and future pandemics, and adroitly move to the manufacturing step? This will require data center resources prepared to support this surge and process and the development of alternate but immediate data center sourcing capabilities. ​​ Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnerships (small boutique biotech's), to support the development of a particular therapy or drug. How do create the timely and appropriate data center infrastructure to address this development? Do you bring assets into your data center, do you coexist in separate facilities and simply maintain a network presence; or find a neutral third space or colocation facility to meet the need? ​ How can you meet these requirements? ​ The pharmaceutical industry requires consultants who understand the unique requirements of their field. The data center strategy is not just a technical strategy, it also requires a series of playbooks to address these complex situations that will require governance requirements for control and management of the data center and the IP that it's working on. A Data Center Strategy meets the objectives of addressing the challenges detailed above by developing solution scenarios that vary in cost, time, complexity, and risk to implement. It starts with a rapid assessment of your current environment and pivots to the needs of your future state IT, application, and cloud / SaaS architectures. It should also include an assessment of the network infrastructure inclusive of bandwidth requirements to match any future state changes. The process itself helps to gain consensus through the inclusion of multiple communities of interest. It helps build a plan that is focused on coping with change rather than being a static solution. It addresses capital and operating costs as equal in importance to the technical solution. It develops total cost of ownership forecasts for each solution scenario to understand the impact of technology, implementation, and growth in scale of any plan. ​ What services are included ? Present state data center analysis that includes your IT and network architectures, application portfolio, and OpEx/CapEx cash flows. Evaluation of the technical infrastructures of your legacy data center(s) to understand capacity, resiliency, remediation, and growth potential. Cost considerations and associated facility risks are driving measures in determining if legacy facilities are good candidates for modernization. This analysis will also include any off-premise solutions including the use of exiting colocation data center deployments and cloud / SaaS environments. ​ ​ Workshops with the team to understand: Key data center technical requirements. Application portfolio needs and growth. Security and compliance issues. Financial guidelines for developing solution scenario OpEx and CapEx budgets. ​ Future state planning. ​ Development of the future state through: Modeling of IT requirements. Developing the right mix of on-premise and colocation data center space, cloud, and SaaS solutions. Creating alternative strategies with associated costs. Analyzing best-phased implementation timelines and associated risks. Developing a set of presentations to assist in the dissemination of results and report outs to gain both technical and financial senior-level approval. Case Studies ​ Confidential Drug Development Company Princeton, NJ Data Center Consolidation Plan and TCO Analysis A global contract research organization, one of the world’s most comprehensive drug development company. They needed to consolidate their infrastructure and selected EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll to aid in understanding, creating, and populating high density data center facilities, as well as select, design, and build a world class data center under a very aggressive timeline. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll worked to provide: A strategy to consolidate the company’s worldwide data centers down to three regional facilities, as well as a disaster recovery and data bunker data center. A “right size” disaster recovery data center topology. Operational, design, computing, redundancy, and resiliency standards across all data centers. Tier III level for all facilities. Ultimately, the company experienced: An increased speed to market for medication and other treatments. Reduced cost to public for medication. The lowest TCO scenario for each regional data center including collocation and expansion of client owned facilities. Reduced operational costs/complexity and PUE. A forecast of the SPC requirements for each of the new facilities. Confidential Laboratory Capacity Modeling, Consolidation Strategy Development Chicago, IL A top confidential laboratory engaged EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll to perform a high-level data center analysis on a select number of data centers and develop future state planning options for the data centers. The driver of the project was a recent acquisition which brought more data centers into the client’s portfolio. The goal of the project was to consolidate data centers where possible and develop a plan to accomplish this. The tasks performed included the following: Capacity projections – determining power and space needs for current and future facilities. Facilities review – consultative documentation review and interviews of facilities “owners” to evaluate data center reliability and use in future state scenarios. Future state planning – defining the data center topology based on IT, business, legal and contractual requirements, integrate capacity models, existing and new facilities into future state scenario options. Financial analysis – model the TCO of each developed scenario – data center capital and operations costs, remediation costs, migration costs etc. pharmacy benefit management (PBM) Fairlawn, NJ Data Cente r Design +25,000 SF of RF A leading pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) with the nation's largest mail order pharmacy operations, assists its customers to moderate the cost and enhance the quality of prescription drug benefits provided to members nationwide. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided design services of a 2,200 sf data center, which is part of a new 325,000 sf state of the art robotic prescription processing facility. Additionally, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided the concept design of a new 50,000 sf data center that will include 25,000 sf of raised floor area. Confidential Global Pharmaceutical Global Master Planning and Site Evaluation This Global Pharmaceutical company was looking for a company that can support with their facility assessments of their data centers and local server rooms associated with manufacturing and research sites. These assessments included: ​ Review of all major MEP systems, identification of single points of failure, and remediation recommendations. IT Deployment assessment: Development of IT inventory, layout, and rack elevations for existing inventory as well as planned deployments of new systems and layout, IT deployment and structured cabling. Develop a Data Center sourcing strategy to define In-house/Colo/Cloud environments. Support on identifying and selecting Colocation candidates in multiple countries around the globe. Golden Omega Micro Data Center Design & Implementation Santiago, Chile Golden Omega is a Chilean Company focused on producing high quality Omega 3 concentrates up to 85% of EPA and DHA obtained from fish oil. Their business relies on an improved technical infrastructure, therefore, Golden Omega required the creation of a remote support system based upon the latest technologies to gain operational efficiencies, agility in anticipation of lower support costs. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll designed a micro data center which provided an end-to-end solution to transform Golden Omega’s manufacturing capabilities to support localized manufacturing and research and development, and fitted with a hyperconverged platform for virtualization. Confidential Manufacturer of Medical Devices Spot Colocation Market and Financial Analysis Boston, MA EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was engaged by the client to assist in a data center search within Europe. Specifically, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll issued a request for information (RFI) to known Colocation providers in the European Market that could potentially meet the client's IT and business requirements. The goal of the effort is to provide industry-indicative pricing for hosting the identified capacity needs, along with providing EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll’s assessment of the provider's facility and operational experience within the response. The report included a Total cost over 5-year analysis. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, MD 5,400 SF A portion of an existing office building (Approx. 5,400 SF) was repurposed into a new data center facility or Consolidated Computational Research Facility (CCRF). Work included extensive coordination with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, landscaping, vibration, and technology consultants. Mechanical systems work includes construction of a new bidirectional fault-tolerant chilled water distribution system teamed with in-row type chilled-water cooling units situated on the raised data floor. New heat exchangers, redundant chilled water pumps, chilled water storage tanks and controls, along with a local low ambient emergency air cooled chiller will be installed to support the data center cooling needs. Systems to include new interior and exterior distribution gear, automatic transfer switches, uninterruptible power supplies, transformers, power transformers, and remote power supplies. Special systems include fire alarm systems, access control, video surveillance, and paging. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll commissioned the new data center facility, wrote complete operational procedures for all components and systems, and worked with the client to vet those procedures Services ​​ Strategy Data Center Design Data Center Integration Data Center Assurance Data Center Commissioning Trusted Advisor Data Center Due Diligence Industrial Control Systems Infrastructure Cyber Security Colocation Strategy Application Cloud Readiness Assessment ​ ​ Webinars ​ ​ Operate your data center effectively The Future of UPS Systems Top issues when considering a Data Center Transaction: Co-location Services Understanding the economic advantages of a hybrid cloud environment Podcasts ​ Technology Strategy for Pharmaceutical Special Guest: Kevin Sanders Managing Principal, Data Center Consulting & Strategy EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll PHARMACEUTICAL Description Case studies Services Webinars Podcasts contact us Description Case Studies Services Webinars Podcast

Transformation of your hospital or healthcare systems data center strategy can ultimately play a significant role in improving patient health. Many factors contribute to the need for strategic transformation and the ability to rapidly adapt. The traditional challenges of rapid data growth, increasing complexity of an application portfolio, the need to service a wider geographic network of allied providers, increasing resiliency requirements, and proven backup and recovery methods have been difficult to manage in data centers that may be obsolete or lack capabilities to cope with these issues. It is a challenge to develop a multiyear strategic plan while facing budget issues and the need allocate resources in a more efficient manner. What's driving the change The traditional approach to managing data center options and application portfolio’s at the enterprise and clinical level has a more complex set of solution options than ever before. As more workloads are evaluated for public/private cloud and SaaS an in-depth analysis of where application workloads are best run is needed to understand the mix of owned data centers, use of colocation, and the rate of cloud adoption. Understanding the technical options in terms of the underlying costs, both operating and capital expense is critical to implementing a plan that hits both long term IT and Financial goals. The four critical verticals associated with Healthcare (Clinical, Research, Enterprise, and Imaging) are challenged to keep pace with this explosion of data and growth of interconnected support devices. These factors call for a robust data center and multi-cloud strategy Clinical: The Clinical vertical represents the highest degree of resiliency requirements, back up, and uptime. Specific applications include Pharmacy, nurse call, patient scheduling, surgical rotation, radiology, imaging, and traffic. This is the front end between the hospital or healthcare facility and the patient. An example would be the movement of the patients within the facility, their location, and the time spent in that specific location. ​ ​ Research: Most major hospitals and healthcare systems participate in research (revenue and non-revenue) at either the theoretical, applied, or clinical level. Some institutions also require High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments that need higher density power requirements and engineered cooling solutions. These research requirements create special challenges in developing a long term strategy. ​ ​ Enterprise: This vertical represents the application portfolio that manages the administrative side of the institution. In addition to the normal accounting, HR, and other backend services, it also manages the revenue side or “payer” application interface to insurance and government for service reimbursement. This particularly becomes a challenge in the era of Some hospitals and healthcare system mergers and acquisitions. Managing multiple environments and consolidating them over a period of time again requires a “playbook” approach to understand how to maintain services while controlling cost as data center sources are changed. ​ ​ Imaging: Is the fastest-growing segment in terms of data volume. Petabytes of data are constantly being created and accessed within a hospital, regional locations, and sometimes globally. Latency and image quality are critical in the decision for storage locations, network latency issues, and archival solutions. These verticals must meet all requirements to avoid any disruption of day-to-day activities or unplanned operating costs. Each application will need to have a defined location on where it will reside, whether on-prem, in a colocation data center, or in the cloud-based on criticality and cost. Although it may seem like a macro-level decision, this can directly impact a patient individually. For example, a nurse having trouble with an unresponsive or slow EMR system could delay treatment or medication to a patient due to connectivity issues with the cloud. With the right data center sourcing and multi-cloud strategy, you will obtain a deeper understanding of the latency limits, as well as the tolerance for downtime for each application in the healthcare environment. How can you meet these requirements? EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll uses a powerful analysis methodology to create a set of comparative solutions for a multiyear data center sourcing solution. This allows for the collaborative creation of a strategy that uses the best alternatives for managing your application portfolio and investing in the right options over time. Understanding your present state, your future state needs, and the solutions that fit your environment (data centers, colocation, public/private cloud, SaaS, etc) and budget allow for the creation of a strategy that can actually be implemented, over time. What services are included ? ​ ​ Evaluate client applications with automated analysis tools, efficient stakeholder interviews, allows for an understanding of the app portfolio and future state options ​ Recommendations of application disposition and or transformation targets Modeling of IT inventories and future IT architectures (server, storage, network) that can affect the data capacity and density requirements over time. This can result in a phased implementation model and the requirements for any owned data centers to be remediated or built/re-built, or the use of colocation options Identification of key technical and business requirements, such as tolerance for downtime, latency limits, security, and regulatory requirements, etc. Capture of non-technical constraints and or directives which include community issues, company history/image, etc. Working collaboratively with our client, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will help define, evaluate, and recommend one or more alternative strategies that consider different mixes of on-premise data centers, colocation, and private/public cloud providers. ​ ​ A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model will illustrate the Opex and Capex impact over 5 to 10 years to further understand the impact of facility, technology, and implementation options on budget. This can be the most useful tool because it allows an organization to manage the rate of change that it can safely adopt. Case Studies Confidential managed care health care organization Data Center Roadmap and Data Center Strategy Minneapolis, MN EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll evaluated the current state of the client’s existing data centers, provided future state recommendations that accommodated technology growth for the next ten years and provided as much conceptual detail as possible to allow for the most accurate costing to make a go-forward decision. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll worked with this client in data center planning workshops, to outline availability / reliability / disaster recovery planning, technology systems deployment, technology systems growth, and network architecture considerations. Confidential global life sciences company 10-15 Year Master Plan Europe & USA EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided an assessment that would help define the production space and DR site space requirements for the next 10 to 15 years. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll also provided a physical facility inspection for the client to make an intelligent selection of each facility as well as assist the client in negotiating long term lease contracts. Additionally, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided technology infrastructure design services to provide the client with construction-level documents for execution by a professional contractor. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll is also assisting the client during the construction phase of the projects. Confidential Hospital Data Center Strategy and Consolidation Multiple Locations Provided Strategic Services that included Data Center Evaluation and Consolidation. The engagement consisted of outlining current-state and future-state strategies, processes, and methodologies for and identifying gaps/ deficiencies with estimated timelines and ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) costs. The EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll team mapped these findings into an unbiased future-state data center strategy that holistically integrated the elements of operational continuity, technology, and data center facilities. Cofnidential healthcare services Hybrid IT Strategy Louisville, KY EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll investigated and assessed the client’s current data center environment, their ability to accommodate technology growth for their next five (5) years. This included assessment of future needs and the driving forces behind data center facility and IT such as future vision for applications, high availability (HA), business continuity/ disaster recovery, specialized space, etc. ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll also provided site auditing to determine the condition of the electrical and mechanical infrastructures supporting mission critical functions, as well as a risk evaluation of the systems and equipment utilizing probability risk analysis (PRA) methodology. This determined the risks and availability benefits for purposes of directing limited capital and expense resources to areas where there is the most benefit for the investments of those resources. Confidential Medical Center Master Plan Rancho Mirage, CA EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll performed master planning and consulting services that analyzed the client’s IT and data center environments to develop an optimized data center migration strategy and implementation plan, which included both data migration and physical relocation services. The EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll team utilized a tool to map applications to infrastructure to determine the optimal move groups which were ultimately reduced to three (3) move waves with the most critical waves occurring at the end of the project. the EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll consultants also provided program management services end-to-end, analyzed and inventoried the hospital's infrastructure components, connections, and applications, provided migration analysis, design, and planning services, reconfigured the SAN fabric to simplify ongoing administration, provided data migration services, and assisted with deployment of new BladeSystem enclosures. Confidential University Hospital and Research Institution Data Center & Multi-Cloud Strategy New York, NY ​ The client was looking to perform a comprehensive Data Center and Multi-Cloud Strategy that included the capacity of the existing facilities, a cloud adoption analysis to quantify the IT infrastructure cost drivers that move to the public cloud, a future state planning and a co-location RFI process and Load requirements. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided multiple scenarios including projected cost of cloud, Co-Location providers and owned sited based on projected loads and iDR analysis. The project includes the data center hall MEP design and technology infrastructure, installation, and commissioning of a new High-Performance Data Center. Confidential Hospital & Healthcare Institution Multi-Cloud Strategy & Co-Location Selection Boston, MA One of the country’s largest healthcare consortiums was in the process of merging. This merge included multiple regional hospitals. The hospital IT and Real Estate organizations were seeking a strategy to combine and consolidate data centers between all hospitals. The goal was to modernize, increase resiliency, reduce cost, exploit new architectures, and reduce the reliance upon leased space. They needed someone to help these two large organizations come to develop options and costs for this complex planning effort. The options included a Data Center Sourcing Strategy to discuss the options to host their applications in different Multi-Cloud environments (In-house, Co-Location providers and Private Cloud Providers) Services ​​ ​​ ​ Data Center Strategy Data Center Sourcing Strategy ​Application Cloud Readiness Assessment Data Center Design Data Center Commissioning Infrastructure Condition and Capacity Analysis Data Center Trusted Advisor Co-Location Strategy Data Center Due Diligence Webinars ​ ​ ​ Top issues when considering a Data Center Transaction: Co-location Services Understanding the economic advantages of a hybrid cloud environment Podcasts ​ Technology for Healthcare Providers Special Guest: Kevin Sanders Managing Principal, Data Center Consulting & Strategy EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll HOSPITALS & HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS Description Case studies Services Webinars Podcasts Contact us Description Webinars Case Studies Services Podcast

White Paper Embodied Carbon Considerations For Data Centers ​ White Paper 5 ​ ​ January 2022 ​ By: Brevan Reyher, EIT EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll (EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll) Download PDF Executive Summary ​ Climate change continues to affect our environment at an increasing rate while our understanding of the impact between human activities and the increase in measured greenhouse gases (GHG) is becoming clearer. The demand for IT services is contributing to immense growth within the data center sector and this contributes to increasing carbon impacts from construction and operations. In terms of built-out area and overall energy usage, data centers currently remain a small subset of commercial and industrial emissions. However, it does not take much imagination to see a future where they are one of the highest consumers of energy and resources. As more systems move online, such as most things leisure, education, and work-related, contrasted by a reduction in commercial real estate, an increase in data center carbon footprint can be forecast. ​ Content ​ Introduction Data Center Scale Embodied Carbon vs. Operational Carbon Measuring Embodied Carbon for a Whole Life Carbon Approach Solutions Conclusion ​ ​ ​ 1. Introduction ​ ​ Climate change continues to affect our environment at an increasing rate while our understanding of the impact between human activities and the increase in measured greenhouse gases (GHG) is becoming clearer. The demand for IT services is contributing to immense growth within the data center sector and this contributes to increasing carbon impacts from construction and operations. In terms of built-out area and overall energy usage, data centers currently remain a small subset of commercial and industrial emissions. However, it does not take much imagination to see a future where they are one of the highest consumers of energy and resources. As more systems move online, such as most things leisure, education, and work-related, contrasted by a reduction in commercial real estate, an increase in data center carbon footprint can be forecast. Early data center design was primarily focused on cost, resiliency, and uptime but later evolved to include efficiency and the reduction of operational energy consumption. The economic approach to design decision-making has considered the data center lifecycle, but only in terms of capital and operational expense and total cost of ownership. Increasing the efficiency of the data center or reducing the resources required to build it lessens the GHG impact but there are limitations. There remains the risk of design decisions having unintended consequences if embodied carbon emissions are not considered. Embodied carbon includes all emissions not attributed to operations and the use of electrical energy and water in the day-to-day running of the data center. These include those from extraction, manufacturing, and transportation, as well as installation of materials and components used to create the built environment. It also includes the lifetime emissions from in-use activities including maintenance, repair, replacement and the end-of-life activities of deconstruction, transportation, waste processing, and disposal. Reducing the GHG emissions in support of a carbon-neutral goal for the data center industry must be performed with a comprehensive approach. Embodied carbon is the sum of GHG emissions normalized to an equivalent CO ² number. Including the Whole Life Carbon approach to the design process can identify which design selections achieve the lowest carbon emissions over the entire lifecycle of the data center, where focusing solely on operational emissions may fall short. ​ ​ ​ 2. Data Center Scale ​ According to the Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) research group, there was 611.3 MW of data center capacity under construction in 2020 in North America, and another 418.2 MW under construction in EMEA¹. This is an increase from 549.8 MW at the end of 2018. Density is still increasing, however, the amount of building area required to keep up with demand for the services continues to increase. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) publishes an annual global status report in which the two trends were highlighted². “CO² emissions from the building sector are the highest ever recorded” and “new GlobalABC tracker finds sector is losing momentum toward decarbonization.” These are both concerning trends with the percentage of global emissions and energy of 38% that can be attributed to the overall building sector. To decrease the share of global emissions that can be attributed to building operations, it requires continued effort on efficiencies and especially for data centers, the expedited decarbonization of the electric power grid. The opportunities exist to improve these on new builds and continue in the future through technology innovation and equipment retrofits as advances become available. There is an additional 10% of global emissions attributed to the construction of buildings. These emissions, created at the beginning of the building lifecycle, cannot be reduced over time. Addressing the sources of these emissions during design and procurement are an important consideration and contribute to immediate embodied carbon reductions. Another perspective to highlight the importance of embodied carbon in relation to operational carbon is grid decarbonization. If the grid providing the operational energy is decarbonized over time, and the embodied carbon emissions remain the same, the embodied carbon relative to operational carbon will increase. ​ ​ ​ 3. Embodied Carbon vs Operational Carbon ​ Language of Carbon ​ There are terms available which we need to understand to ensure we all are speaking the same language. The Language of Carbon³. Greenhouse gases (GHG) trap heat in the atmosphere and include carbon dioxide (CO ²), methane (CH⁴), and nitrous oxide (NO²). The release of these gases occurs while burning fossil fuels or biological materials, in chemical reactions during materials production, in the transportation of fossil fuels, from agricultural activities, and treatment of wastewater, among others. ​ Although synthetic, fluorinated gases are also considered to be GHG and are synthetic gases which have widespread use as substitutes for ozone-depleting substances in refrigerants, as well as industrial processes such as manufacturing of aluminum and semiconductors. About 92%⁴ of these gases are in the substitution of ozone-depleting substances and are often used in data center cooling systems. ​ Although typically emitted in small quantities, they are extremely potent greenhouse gases and deemed to hold high Global Warming Potential (GWP). ​ GWP is a metric used to allow comparisons of the global warming impacts of different gases. A high GWP means that small atmospheric concentrations can have disproportionately large effects on global temperatures. GWP and Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO ²e) are used to normalize the emissions calculations. Embodied + Operational = Whole Life Carbon ​ Significant efforts have been invested in data center operational efficiencies. And rightly so, because the energy use density for data centers per unit area is much higher than other types of buildings. Innovations have reduced the amount of additional energy that is required to support the critical load and can be seen by the reduction of average PUE (Power Utilization Effectiveness) over the last decade. There are also efforts underway to apply the excess heat and energy produced by the facility to offset the energy used by the critical IT load. This is termed waste heat reuse, and it is measured by ERE (Energy Reuse Effectiveness). Investments to reduce the operational energy of the facility are recouped overtime during the lifecycle of the facility. Therefore, such reductions are not accounted for until 5, 10, 30 years into the future. Embodied carbon on the other hand is mostly spent upfront when the building is constructed. This is a major reason to include the embodied carbon within analyses and design decisions. Understanding embodied and operational carbon is needed to allocate and account for each appropriately. ​ Combining embodied and operational emissions to analyze the entire lifecycle of a building throughout its useful life and beyond is the Whole Life Carbon approach. This ensures that the embodied carbon (CO²e emissions) together with embodied carbon of materials, components, and construction activities are calculated and available to allow comparisons between different design and construction methods.The terms carbon and energy are often used interchangeably but they are not the same. They follow similar paths but can have different measurements depending on several factors e.g., the source of energy and the emissions associated with the production and use of that energy. The emissions associated with energy can vary depending on geographic location and grid energy supply mix. In the measurement of embodied carbon, Cradle is referenced as the earth or ground from which raw materials are extracted. The following provide boundaries to measure the embodied carbon and emissions of a building at different points in the construction and operating lifecycle. ​ Cradle to Gate - extraction, transportation, processing, manufacturing up to the factory gate. Cradle to Site - adds transportation to the site for installation. Cradle to Use - adds installation activities. Cradle to Grave - adds use factors including maintenance, repair, replacements along with the end-of-life factors including deconstruction, transportation, waste processing, and disposal. ​ ​ However, there is an additional boundary definition that views the holistic impact and benefit of design choices called Cradle to Cradle. Its scope considers the reuse, recovery, and recycling of the materials installed in the building, even the building itself and other activities beyond the lifecycle. Like the Energy Reuse Effectiveness (ERE) metric for operational energy, it assesses the circularity of the building and its components in terms of reuse or recycling. This is the Whole Life Carbon approach. ​ ​ ​ 4. Measuring Embodied Carbon for a Whole Life Carbon approach ​ The most prevalent and accepted method to calculate the environmental impacts of buildings is EN 15987:2011 Sustainability of construction works - Assessment of environmental performance of buildings - Calculation method. This standard defines the methods to perform a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). EN 15987:2011 is part of a suite of standards that assesses sustainability at the product component and building level. ​ Embodied carbon is included in Scope 3 of the GHG Protocol standards and a simplified description of these is: ​ Scope 1: Direct emissions from owned operations including onsite combustion and fugitive emissions of greenhouse gases Scope 2: Indirect emissions from owned operations including emissions produced by the providers of purchased electrical energy and water Scope 3: Indirect emissions from unowned upstream and downstream activities ​ ​ Scope 3 is also referred to as Value-Chain emissions and could be significant depending on the breadth of operations and the lifecycle of products produced. Focusing on the data center facility, much of the Scope 3 emissions will be produced by upstream activities. These activities include the materials for construction but also include those for ongoing maintenance and replacement of the facility equipment. ​ Data Center Scope ​ A data center facility has unique aspects compared to traditional facilities. This is seen in the creation of addendums and exceptions by standards and codes organizations specifically for data centers because they do not fit into existing building types. In comparison to commercial buildings, their size and shape mimics warehouses whereas their MEP systems are similar to office buildings. However, there are significant differences. The limited number of publicly available data center case studies and reports creates challenges for owners, architects, and engineers to develop the practice of LCA. ​ That is not to say that performing an LCA on data center facilities is a challenge that cannot be overcome. If anything, it is a challenge that should be overcome. The knowledge and skills should be developed by the firms specializing in mission-critical facilities design. The best practices and contributions should be shared. The advantage of performing a full scope LCA is the ability to identify hot spots among the sources of impact. This will allow the team to focus on the areas of most benefit for reductions. There are also advantages to performing a partial LCA on a select boundary or system. This allows the comparison of two equivalent solutions with embodied energy included in the decision matrix. The ServerFarm Whole Building Life-Cycle Analysis Report⁵ illustrates the value that an LCA can bring to the design process. ​ Performing an LCA for a data center construction project requires data from trusted sources and an accurate model of the building to be able to calculate the embodied carbon and energy. The architectural, structural, and civil disciplines materials data will be available in generic form from a database. Multiple of these databases have been created and continue to be maintained, and appropriate selections should be made to ensure the data is accurate to the project location. Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing data will be available generically within an ICE (Inventory of Carbon and Energy) or specifically within the EPD or Environmental Product Declaration for a piece of equipment or component. LCA consultants are available and software packages have been created to streamline the assessment process. ​ Tools for Assessment ​ Performing an LCA requires an information database and methods for calculating and analyzing the results. The most widely referenced information database is the ICE database, researched and published by the University of Bath. Several academic, non-profit organizations, and government entities have also created and maintained databases. These datasets only cover the cradle to gate scope. Although no single database includes data for every geographical location, product, or situation, they are improving over time as more manufacturers and suppliers develop EPD’s in the standardized format. ​ A few examples of available tools include BIM360 from Autodesk, which allows the integration of data from the EC3 tool developed in partnership between the Carbon Leadership Forum⁶ and Building Transparency⁷. The EC3 tool is an EPD database and Building Transparency provides the Tally software to assist in the analysis and reporting of results. Other organizations with available tools are the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute⁸ and EDGE⁹ (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies). These organizations are industry groups or academic partnerships. On the commercial side, there are companies such as OneClick LCA¹⁰ that provide full-service support for performing LCA. ​ The available databases, tools, and knowledgeable resources required to accurately perform an LCA are growing, but the undertaking of performing a full LCA requires a considerable amount of time and resources. ​ ​ 5. Solutions ​ Each data center and design is unique, but research suggests that 10-20% of embodied carbon can be eliminated from construction projects with no increase in cost, and that embodied carbon accounts for 20-50% of the whole life energy and carbon of commercial buildings when operational energy is considered¹¹. Although this value is far lower for data centers, embodied carbon should be considered in conjunction with operational energy and water savings benefits that may be gained by design choices. ​ Less is more ​ Reducing embodied carbon in MEP disciplines can be accomplished by reducing the equipment and materials in the systems. Maximizing utilization of equipment and reducing complexity achieve the reduction in building area required and weight of the equipment, in turn the embodied carbon required. ​ Increase density ​ Supporting an increased power density in the IT environment contributes to performing the same amount of “work” in a smaller area. The reduction in floor area required as well as the amount of IT equipment required affects the overall impact. Life cycle assessment Performing a lifecycle assessment on the data center design provides the opportunity to compare alternate design choices and allow for more informed decisions to be made. Choosing the design with the lowest carbon impact and shortest carbon payback period requires this measurement and analysis. Material substitution ​ Including sustainability and embodied carbon reduction options in specifications directs designers and contractors to select materials with positive impacts. Recycled content and material substitution should be specified for reduced embodied carbon while achieving design requirements. Equipment selection Equipment manufacturers play a role in achieving sustainability goals. Selecting manufacturers with developed EPD allow for the LCA to be performed effectively. Product lifecycle and service life play a key role in the longevity of the subsystems. End of life activities including recyclability can have a positive or negative impact on the viability of the equipment. Building reuse/retrofit Reusing existing structures, commercial buildings, and warehouses to retrofit and reuse to meet new data center requirements or upgrading legacy data centers provides a significant reduction in overall embodied carbon. Designing data center buildings that may be used for other purposes in the future also contributes to the reduced future impacts. The Preservation Leadership Forum sums up the advantages here, “when comparing buildings of equivalent size and function, building reuse almost always offers environmental savings over demolition and new construction.”¹² ​ ​ ​ 5. Solutions ​ ​Performing deliberate analysis and making design decisions using the Whole Life Carbon approach, considering both Embodied Carbon/Energy and Operational Carbon/Energy, provides the opportunity to contribute positively to the global goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The opportune time to create this positive impact and reduce the embodied carbon emissions occurs during planning, design, and procurement or in other words, now. ​ ​ ​ References ​ https://www.us.jll.com/en/trends-and-insights/research/data-center-outlook https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/34572/GSR_ES.pdf https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/the-language-of-carbon_o https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#f-gases ServerFarm-Whole-Building-LCA-Report.pdf (serverfarmllc.com) https://carbonleadershipforum.org/ https://www.buildingtransparency.org/ http://www.athenasmi.org/ https://edgebuildings.com/ https://www.oneclicklca.com/ https://circularecology.com/embodied-carbon-footprint-database.html Resource Library - Preservation Leadership Forum - A Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (savingplaces.org) ​ ​ ​ About Author ​ Brevan Reyher, EIT is an Electrical Engineer and Consultant at EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll . Brevan’s experience starts in 2007 with the development of standard and maintenance operating procedures, raised floor area design, analysis of electrical usage data and equipment operating parameters. Brevan’s experience also includes serving as the lead project engineer designing and implementing multiple data center infrastructure buildouts in different territories, including in Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Frankfurt. His work during the design phase included focusing on the customer’s requirements gathering and design integration into development of specifications and documentation. Brevan has advised and mentored operations personnel in development and implementation of preventive maintenance programs on mission-critical data center systems and technical change management efforts to mitigate risk and business impact during construction and maintenance operations. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Trinity University. He is a team member of the recently launched EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Part of Ramboll and I3 Solutions Group Sustainability Initiative to offer a practical roadmap towards a Carbon Net-Zero data center by 2030. ​ ​ ​ Contact Us ​ For further information about the EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll & i3 GHG Abatement Group, please email David Eisenband deisenband@eypmcfinc.com or Kerry Neville kerry.neville@i3.solutions Download PDF

New White Paper Embodied Carbon Considerations For Data Centers By: Brevan Reyher, EIT Download here OUR FOCUS Our Focus Critical facilities solutions aligned to the digital revolution. Secure. Reliable. Flexible. Efficient. Read More Our Services Strategy Design Commissioning Sustainability DUE DILIGENCE Assurance OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS & CREDENTIALS Accomplishments & Credentials Sample Case Studies High Efficiency Off The Grid Datacenter Beacon Falls, CT 160,000 SF (Raised Floor) Data Center Master Plan 28 MW of IT Load EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll’s Master Plan for this Tier III data center developer is premised on the capture of CO2 from the fuel cells to use for beverage production. ​ The site will utilize a 32 MW fuel facility with gas-fired generators as the primary power source, using the utility as backup capacity. The facility will use a chilled water central plant with centrifugal chillers to provide an absorption mechanical system. 300 Acre Data Center Campus with a 500+MW Utility-Scale Solar Facility Laramie, WY 300-acre Data Center Campus Design 25-200 MW EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll is developing the conceptual design, building budget, and cost of power analysis for a new data center expected to have 25MW capacity Day 1, with the ability to scale to 200MW over time. ​ Set in a data center business park, to be located on 300-acres of privately-owned land designated as a Federal Opportunity Zone, the project also calls for a 500+MW Utility-Scale Solar Facility on up to 12,000-acres of the client's Ranch located in southeast Wyoming. OUR CLIENTS Gas Turbines Low Emission Data Center Martinsburg, WV Greenfield Data Center Design 2 x 350,000 SF (Raised Floor) EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided master planning and detailed design for a site capable of housing two 350,000 SF, 78MW data centers with a critical design load for the site of 104MW. ​ The project intends to use GE gas turbines as the primary power source and will include a unique and proprietary Linde/BASF carbon capture technology to eliminate all emissions from turbines. The facility is planned to utilize totally modular IT space, with mechanical and electrical Infrastructure using PVD Modular solutions. Immersion Cooling for Bitcoin Mining Coshocton, Ohio Data Center Campus Feasibility Study, Master Planning, Design 34 Units 70+MW ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll is providing a data center feasibility study, master planning, and detailed design to convert an existing manufacturing site into a Bitcoin mining campus. ​ The project design specifications include 34 modular data center units and will utilize liquid immersion cooling to run the heat intensive data mining technologies. 38-acre Data Center Campus Ashburn, VA Tier III+ 5MW Commissioning, Level 2 to 5 EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide commissioning service for this 38-acre Data Center campus residing in the heart of the nation’s densest connectivity corridor. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will perform the commissioning of multiple quadrants with a total of 5MW of IT Load in 3 different phases. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll’s scope included the development and maintenance of issues log (Commissioning Deficiency list) tracking observations in the field related to construction. The goal of this log is to monitor and prioritize identified items. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided Level 2 through Level 5 commissioning, the services offered included complying with the customer standards as well as reviewing of the MEP documents, Detailed review report of submittals, shop drawings, controls of sequence of operations and equipment monitoring and alarm, and the performance of infrared testing of electrical equipment per NETA-ATS requirements. Four Story Data Center Santa Clara, CA 160,450 SF 16MW Commissioning, Level 1 to 5 IST EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll role was to act as commissioning authority (CxA) for the phased buildout for this Colocation provider. ​ The project was programmed to be designed as a four-story, 16-MW (IT load) facility of approximately 160,450 SF. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided data center commissioning services for the project throughout the design, construction, start-up, and the initial period of operation. ​ The primary role of the EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll Commissioning Authority (CxA) was to act as the owner’s advocate to ensure that all parties adhere to the design intent and the contract documents. To achieve this objective, the CxA role was to assist with defining and documenting the Owner’s criteria for system function, performance, and maintainability in addition to developing and coordinating the execution of a testing plan and observing and documenting the performance of installed systems. Global Pharmaceutical Master Planning Multiple Locations Data Center Sourcing Options, TCO Analysis, Colocation RFI Development & Selection This Global Pharmaceutical company was looking for a company that can support with their facility assessments of their data centers and local server rooms associated with manufacturing and research sites. These assessments included: ​ Review of all major MEP systems, identification of single points of failure, and remediation recommendations. IT Deployment assessment: Development of IT inventory, layout, and rack elevations for existing inventory as well as planned deployments of new systems and layout, IT deployment and structured cabling. Develop a Data Center sourcing strategy to define In-house/Colo/Cloud environments. Support on identifying and selecting Colocation candidates in multiple countries around the globe. Hospital Group Hybrid IT & Data Center Strategy Boston, MA Multi-Cloud Strategy & Co-Location Selection One of the country’s largest healthcare consortiums was in the process of merging. This merge included multiple regional hospitals. The hospital IT and Real Estate organizations were seeking a strategy to combine and consolidate data centers between all hospitals. The goal was to modernize, increase resiliency, reduce cost, exploit new architectures, and reduce the reliance upon leased space. They needed someone to help these two large organizations come to develop options and costs for this complex planning effort. The options included a Data Center Sourcing Strategy to discuss the options to host their applications in different Multi-Cloud environments (In-house, Co-Location providers and Private Cloud Providers) Data Center Due Diligence Multiple Locations Across the United States 8 Data Centers EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide due diligence site evaluation service of more than 8 data centers in the U.S. territory relative to their ongoing use and possible expansions. ​ The scope included on reviewing the existing building infrastructures as well as the data center operations including maintenance documentation (SOP, EOP, MOP’s), man-power of the facility, capital operating expenditures and budges for the last 5 years. ​ The study provided information on redundancy, drawbacks and limitations, SPOF, description on commissioning reports, geo studies, BMS Systems, Security, branch circuit monitoring, and software solutions. ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll also provided Analysis and commentary on refurbishment, maintenance and upgrade capital required, review expansion plans and budgets. Data Center Due Diligence North America and Europe 16 Data Centers EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was selected to provide Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing/Fire Protection (MEP/FP) services culminating in a due diligence review of each site. ​ The purpose of the review was to give a professional opinion on the condition of the existing facility infrastructure relative to its ongoing use and possible expansion as a data center facility. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll followed a plan that started with the review of all the available documentation of each site, conducted a site visit of 13 of the 16 Data Centers, and the remaining 3 developed a desktop review. ​ The evaluation included the review of the building infrastructure relative to the data center operations and maintenance documentation. EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc. has become part of Ramboll Ramboll is a global sustainable engineering, architecture and consultancy company operating from 300 offices in 35 countries, many in the fastest-growing regions for data center expansion – including a strong presence in the Americas. Joining with Ramboll positions us to offer services to clients anywhere in the world, from site selection through to full design and commissioning. We look forward to continuing and expanding our relationship with you as we move forward together as part of Ramboll. Learn more at ramboll.com/data-centers

Transform your Bank or Financial Institution data center and multi-cloud strategy while maintaining the day to day operations. Many factors contribute to the need to transform. These include simplifying the customer experience, manage risks, finding solutions to data sovereignty, reduce the carbon footprint of aging Data Centers while building the ideal multi-cloud sourcing strategy. Our experts will assist in developing a plan to address these issues and more. What's driving the change ​ Banking and Financial Markets industry data is growing exponentially. Flexibility and adoption play a critical role in building a successful plan to address this growth. As more workloads are evaluated for cloud, Banks and Financial Institutions must now consider technical issues regarding such initiatives, as well as how the cloud will change their IT and Facilities workloads. Similarly, projecting both future cloud costs and changes in internal costs, are critical to making informed strategic decisions. Some challenges that Banks and Financial Institutions will be facing include: ​ Significant Operations challenges from the Covid-19 experience: Need for options in data center resiliency, different types of partnerships needed to “keep the lights on”. ​ ​ GSIB (Global Systemic Important Bank) Indicators. ​ Aging Data Centers (more than 10,15, 20 years). Understanding how to maintain the existing facility and plan for the future. Spiraling costs for modernization of owned/on-premise data centers are forcing a new strategy. Significant data center over-building / leasing for the last 10 years: IT Architecture changes have decreased footprint, increased power density. Bank 2030: Accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. Sustainability strategies to reduce the carbon footprint, water usage, and energy consumption to meet the Sustainable Development Goal. ​ Early cloud programs somewhat successful: A More mature approach is needed but will grow as a data center source, the cost analysis more complex than originally determined, Integration into application flexibility, deployment, and Edge services poses an increasing security issue. Consolidation has challenges: Global regulatory compliance, audit, and tax issues as a result of any strategy, topology effect on network performance and cost, migration process poses risk, cost and security issues, disposition of owned properties can be difficult, capturing the true total cost of change is complex. The rapid growth in deployment of 5G mobile networks will exponentially increase the demand for data and customer experience/responsiveness within mobile banking and investment applications. This will complicate consolidation and multi-cloud deployments and increase the potential demand for edge connectivity data centers to service that demand. This adds another complex layer to the data center strategy. ​ ​ Cybercrime may be the single most critical issue of this decade: Reduction in attack surface area is important. Change in, and decentralization of, IT assets and Application / Data Warehouse deployment can have positive disruption benefit to your attack profile. Select partners with additional skills and monitoring to complement in-house InfoSec layers. Big Data, AI, and sophisticated analytics requirements create a different overall IT and data center sourcing architecture need. Lastly, we also understand that today’s focus for financial institutions is driven more by operational resiliency -- and less on recovery – with the intent on not having to recover at all due to the systemic effects and ramifications a banking outage can cause across not just the financial sector, but across a multitude of other sectors that are dependent on those banks for payments processing and other areas. With the right data center sourcing and multi-cloud strategy, you will obtain a deeper understanding of the latency limits, as well as the tolerance for downtime for each application in the Banking and Financial environment. During the strategy process, we take an application-centric approach to evaluate customer applications to understand both their technical readiness factors for the cloud and application dependencies and underlying infrastructure. These are both crucial elements for planning and implementing a cloud migration and understanding its costs and impact on the facilities side of the data center strategy. ​ How can you meet these requirements? To meet the requirements of an evolving data center strategy to address the above issues, it is essential to map your present state environment and understand its overall Total Cost of Ownership to develop a new strategy that gives you the ability to grow and adapt into a future state with predictable infrastructure costs. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provides a distinctive solution by taking a unique hybrid-Cloud approach that evaluates critical applications to understand both their technical readiness factors for the cloud and application dependencies and underlying infrastructure. This is coupled with an analysis of your present state data center, colocation, cloud, and SaaS environments in order to match your future state application requirements to the most effective data center sourcing topology. We then provide an evaluation and cost analysis of the applications running in multiple environments, as well as data center topologies, based on the current state and the output of the detailed growth modeling for each future state option. This includes hardware/software depreciation, lease cost, power, facilities building and maintenance, network, implementation, and deployment labor and services. ​The bottom line is that it takes more than understanding just how to plan and design a datacenter for a financial client, but a broader perspective of the industry which we possess and have built up over many years – to develop a datacenter strategy that work will work now and into the future. We have worked with commercial and institutional banks continuously since our inception in the mid 1990’s. We have planned, designed or commissioned the majority of the first stand alone greenfield facilities for this sector, and have evolved to assist these organizations in developing the next generation strategies for their datacenters and IT as they look to consolidate, achieve operational savings without sacrificing availability and security, or move some compute operations to cloud/colocation environments. We help them achieve a hybrid datacenter approach of on prem and off prem through strategy work, sale leasebacks, retrofits, migrations to service providers and other approaches. ​ What services are included ? ​ Evaluate client applications with automated analysis tools, efficient stakeholder interviews, and existing data capture with minimum analysis time and costs ​ Recommendations of application disposition and or transformation targets Modeling of IT inventories and future changes that can affect the data capacity requirements over time Identification of key technical and business requirements, such as tolerance for downtime, latency limits, etc. The capture of non-technical constraints and or directives which include regulations, company history/image, etc. Once all requirements over time are defined and documented, EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll will evaluate and recommend one or more alternative strategies that consider different mixes of on-premise data centers, colocation, and public cloud providers. Case Studies Confidential Financial Institution Data Center MEP/FP Design, Uptime Institute Certification, Commissioning Madrid, Spain Tier IV 200,000 SF New DC highly available Tier IV by the Uptime Institute Design (1st Spain) and Construction (Europe 1st). The client's facility is the first DPC in Europe and the fourth anywhere in the world to receive this double certification, which the Uptime Institute assigns to data processing centers that feature optimal levels of reliability and safety. The Group’s targets for expansion in coming decades and the bank’s firm commitment to information technologies were the two main drivers convincing the bank of the need to build a new DPC in Madrid, adjacent the lender’s original facility. The bank's new DPC, which spans 20,000 square meters, doubles and has room to triple the density of equipment the previous facility was able to house. Indeed, the new DPC hosts equipment consisting of up to 10,000 high-end processors, vs. 4,800 at the old center. Confidential Financial Institution Trusted Advisor, Data Center Strategy, Design, Cx São Paulo, Brazil 2 Tier III (Active-Active) 300,000 SF One of Latin America's largest bank, was experiencing continuously increasing data-processing volumes at its main data center facility, they were looking to build a new Technology Center. The customer first engaged EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll to perform Data Center Roadmap services to right size a new DC topology based on the future state master plan. EYP MCF provided discovery and IT assessments of 2 primary locations. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll then provided right sizing for primary, secondary and DR sites. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was then selected to provide Data Center design, commissioning, owners rep services for a pair of new mirrored, Tier 3 Data Center facility Confidential Financial Institution Data Center MEP/FP Design Shelton, CT Tier IV 225,000 SF EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided design services for their two-story 225,000 sq. ft. Tier IV greenfield data center with 90,000 sq. ft. of raised floor/data center space, as well as MEP support space, IT ancillary space, and general office space. The facility was designed to be concurrently maintainable with no single point of failure, and with an initial minimum electrical load density of 100 Watts per sq ft. The design included 2N UPS and distribution systems, 2N chilled water plant with 4 pipe chilled water distribution, air conditioning of all critical spaces along with Fuel oil storage design for the emergency standby generator plant. Confidential Financial Institution Data Center MEP/FP Design/ LEED Gold & Uptime Institute Tier IV Certification Istanbul, Turkey 70,000 SF EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll designed a first-class data center for this bank. The facility was designed with an innovative base isolation solution provision against seismic risk. We also utilized free cooling for low Opex for 10+ years lifetime. The data center is located in an underground environment in a 1,420,000 sq. ft. building campus that includes office space, auditoriums and cafeterias. On day one the data center received a migration of over 420 TB of mainframe data, 7PB of open system data, and 20 PB of backup capacity data. Confidential Financial Institution Data Center Current and Future Growth Strategy and Site evaluation Beijing, China EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll Consulting Team provided Data Center Assessment Services for one of China's largest banks. The bank's e-banking business, was experiencing a fast business grown and needed a facility with high IT reliability and availability, information security as well as a facility that would provide energy savings. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll provided an assessment that would help define the production space and DR site space requirements for the next 15 years. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll would also provide the Data Center construction process, and provide Data Center operation and ECC planning, a TOC analysis and site selection services. These services would intern result in a 15-year master planning; as well as allowing the bank to have a clear roadmap on the requirement of their production Data Center and Disaster Recovery facilities. They would also provide for Data Center space planning recommendations, an analysis of all investments and site selection and construction roadmap. Confidential Financial Institution Trusted A dvisor, Commissioning Paris , France 5 Data Halls 5,000 SF EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll’s consulting approach to support included an audit of the robustness and high availability of the design; thermal modeling of the data halls, detailed urbanization study; lead the Integrated System Tests (ST) Commissioning project and provide an expert project manager during one year to assist the customer PMO. The audit identified some key Single Point of Failures that lead to revive the high availability design features. The CFD and thermal modeling lead to review initial server deployment roadmap and helped getting key data on thermal behavior of data halls. EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll helped define key test to ensure integration of high availability features, cross domain approach (i.e. HVAC with electrical with BMS). The PMO helped in securing the project plan, risk and issue management and formal reporting. ​ Services ​​ ​​ ​ Data Center Strategy Data Center Sourcing Strategy ​Application Cloud Readiness Assessment Data Center Design Data Center Commissioning Infrastructure Condition and Capacity Analysis Data Center Trusted Advisor Co-Location Strategy Data Center Due Diligence Webinars ​ ​ ​ Top issues when considering a Data Center Transaction: Co-location Services Understanding the economic advantages of a hybrid cloud environment ​ Podcasts ​ Top Data Center challenges/market trends in the Banking and Financial Market sector Citigroup Data Center MEP/FP/LEED Design, Commissioning Roanoke, TX Tier IV 243,000 SF ​ EYP MCF, Part of Ramboll was first selected by this client as the design engineer for a greenfield data center in Roanoke, TX. The facility was a ‘ground-up’ single-story, 243,000 sq. ft Tier IV facility with 100,000 sq. ft of raised floor computer environment. ​ The Commissioning for these projects included factory witness testing, developing scripts for startup, commissioning, and integrated system testing. The commissioning team provided oversite of construction and startup and performed functional and integrated system testing. Testing progressed from components of the systems and sub-systems to the systems that made up the electrical and mechanical infrastructure for these projects. Testing demonstrated to the Owner that the Data Center operated as designed. BANKING & FINANCIAL MARKETS Description Case studies Services Webinars Podcasts Contact us Description Case Studies Services Webinars Podcast