Course Benefits

After completion of the course the participant will be able to:

• Explain different types of data centres, their impact on business continuity, and the key factors affecting availability.
• Examine international and national standards, industry guidelines, and compliance requirements for data centre design and sub-components.
• Identify site selection criteria, building requirements, and supporting facility needs to establish a high-performance, resilient data centre.
• Deploy raised floors and suspended ceilings while considering cooling, grounding, load management, and airflow optimization.
• Design lighting layouts, emergency lighting systems, and positioning strategies to improve visibility, safety, and energy efficiency.
• Develop power redundancy strategies, configure UPS systems, microgrids, transformers, batteries, and optimize power distribution techniques.
• Assess EMF sources, shielding techniques, and best practices to protect critical IT equipment from interference and data corruption.
• Deploy AI-driven cooling management, containment strategies, liquid cooling, and Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STER) to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Deploy network cabling designs, redundancy strategies, and TIA-942 cabling topologies for a resilient and future-ready data centre.
• Install fire suppression systems, detection technologies, and safety signage while ensuring compliance with fire protection regulations.
• Deploy physical security measures, access controls, surveillance systems, and safety protocols to protect data centre assets from threats.
• Deploy BMS, DCIM, EMS, water leak detection, and alarm panels, ensuring continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution.

Course Syllabus

The Mission Critical Site

- Business organization

- Types of data centres

- Importance of a data centre

- Elements of data centre

- Causes of unavailability

Data Centre Standards

- Standards and guidelines

- Standards for sub-components

- International vs. national standards

Data Centre Location, Building and Construction

- Criteria for selecting site location the data centre location

- Criteria for facility

- Supporting facilities and function

Raised Access Flooring and Suspended Ceiling

- Standards

- Types of raised oors

- Loading factors

- General guidelines

- Grounding

- Ramp and landing platform

- Suspended ceiling

- Raised oor and suspended ceiling impact on cooling

Light

- Measurements of light

- Standards

- Connecting and positioning of light xtures

- Emergency light

- Types of emergency light

Power Infrastructure

- Sustainability

- Microgrid

- Transformers

- Generators

- Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) and

Static Transfer Switch (STS)

- Power redundancy levels and techniques

- Power distribution / Busbar trunking

- Single phase and three phase power

- Grounding and bonding

- Isolation transformer

- PDU form factors

- Ingress Protection (IP) grades

- Power quality parameters

- Power sizing

- High Performance Computing

- UPS systems

- UPS parallel congurations

- Batteries

- Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)

- Thermographic scanning

Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF)

- Types of EMF

- Units of measurements

- Standards and best practices

- Sources of EMF

- Shielding

Equipment Racks

- Standards

- Dimensions

- Types of racks

- Security

- Power strips / rails

Cooling Infrastructure

- Cooling principles

- Temperature and humidity

- Types of cooling systems

- Raised oor cooling

- Non-raised oor cooling

- Supplemental cooling

- Containment

- Liquid cooling

- Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STER)

Water Supply

- Importance of water

- Backup water supply

Designing a Scalable Network Infrastructure

- Importance network cabling infrastructure

- Planning considerations

- Copper cabling

- Fibre Cabling

- TIA-942 cabling system topology

- Testing and verication of cabling system

- Redundancy

- Site-to-site connectivity

Fire Protection

- Common causes of re

- Requirements for re suppression systems

- Standards

- Fire detection systems

- Water based re suppression systems

- Gas-based re suppression systems

- Classes of re

- Best practices

- Handheld re extinguishers

- Requirements for signage and safety

- Regulatory requirements

Physical Security and Safety

- Components for physical security

- Components for physical safety

Auxiliary Systems

- Monitoring challenges

- Monitoring requirements

- Environmental Monitoring System (EMS)

- Building Management System (BMS)

- Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

- Water leak detection

- Alarm panels

- Notication

- Best practices