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Automation in construction: an off-site case study of the FASTtruss system with DES

Time: 2025-10-08 12:55:03 Source: Author: Smart Skincare

Much of this may be made out of materials with high embodied carbon such as aluminium or blown plastics.

Creating sustainable data centres.The biggest environmental impact of data centres is in their use of power and water for cooling, but they are also heavy in terms of embedded carbon.

Automation in construction: an off-site case study of the FASTtruss system with DES

Carbon is embedded in the structure of buildings as everyone knows, but in data centres significantly more so in the M&E equipment within them.As we optimise the geometry and layout of the structure, plant and systems we can have a positive effect on the amount of embodied carbon in the building, structure and systems.. Our more sustainable approach to close coupling and integration increases efficiency in cooling and distribution losses and also lessens the carbon intensive materials used in these systems.. Our industrialisation and digital design approach allows us to quantify this carbon content during design, and minimise the content through optimisation and materials selection.It means our clients can make arrangements for carbon offsetting prior to the data centre facility being handed over.. We continue to investigate and take opportunities to make use of the heat that is generated by the cooling of data centres.

Automation in construction: an off-site case study of the FASTtruss system with DES

with provision for heat export suitable for connection to district heating or industrial processes where viable.. We are also working with data centre clients on alternative sources of clean energy; an area where we see significant potential for data centres to become autonomous, and to promote the use of cleaner standby power systems.. A positive future for data centre design.As society’s requirement for data processing grows, so the market for data centres will continue to grow – and at a frantic pace.

Automation in construction: an off-site case study of the FASTtruss system with DES

The potential impact of our integrated approach, therefore, driving efficiency and improving performance, will only be more important for our clients and their customers..

It is not sustainable, or desirable, to continue building more and more traditional data centres.All of this helps to leverage the change going forwards, and also creates a hopeful background around the possibility that we’ll start to make changes quite quickly.

We saw a similar process with BIM.Once the government established the BIM requirement, there was propagation to the private sector..

Defining the Need.As a result of the Infrastructure Projects Authority and the National Infrastructure Pipeline, we now have more clarity surrounding the issue of what needs to be delivered, for who, and the timescales.

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