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Secure I.T. Environments Hands Over Completed Chase Farm Hospital Data Centre
September 2016 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Secure I.T. Environments Ltd working in partnership with
Chase Farm Hospital – part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust – has
completed the development of a new 45sqM external data centre in just 12 weeks.
The new data centre forms part of the trust’s wider redevelopment project that
will enable it to lead the way in innovate healthcare with a five-storey acute
hospital containing an urgent care centre, eight theatres and a day surgery unit.
The completed redevelopment of the hospital will have its official opening in Summer
2018.
The new data centre has been designed to meet BS/EN1047 fire rated test standards
and regarded as the benchmark standard for new data centre`s being installed today
and with a high level of security to protect patient data and the services being
provided to the hospital 24/7. The new data centre will play a key role in the
day-to-day running of mission critical IT systems for the hospital.
As an “energy efficient” data centre, its Mechanical & Electrical
infrastructure is in an N+1 format, and ensures operational continuity of the
facility with a PUE of 1.2. Key to the installation is the timescale for completion
to enable the demolition of a building housing the existing facility.
A key challenge for this project was that the location of the data centre, which was
on the route to the main hospital buildings – all of which were being demolished
as part of the major investment project. Main contractors needed the road constantly
available for heavy demolition vehicles, whilst maintaining security of the data
centre site which was keeping the rest of the hospital’s IT infrastructure
operational throughout the project.
A new incoming site mains power supply from a substation was also needed for the
data centre, something that had to be very carefully managed in partnership with the
main site contractor given the data centre was in constant operational use.
