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| Room Sealing |
Wall, ceiling and floor penetrations are an important loss factor for energy and a tremendous risk for data centers.
Air Plenum technicians are FIT (Firestoping Instructional Training) qualified to professionally seal your Data Center with UL fire rated materials in order for you to control:
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Room overheating |
Through the penetrations you loose static and vapor pressure.
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Getting enough cooling in a data center is the main concern for most companies. Based on our experience, for every 5000 square feet of data center space, there are usually about 14 square feet of structural openings. There is no straight answer on how to better cool a data center. Companies try everything: raising the floor to 3ft, blowing cold air from the above plenum, buying more AC units etc. Still, there is not enough cooling in the data centers.
Air Plenum technicians will examine your facility and prepare a report detailing any openings that allow cold air to leave the data center. Air Plenum does not have the ultimate solution to the cooling problem. However, it has the piece of the puzzle that can help with the overall effort of cooling your data center.
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A fire starting anywhere in the building produces smoke that gets to the data center setting off the fire suppression system. When fire actually gets to the data center, the fire suppression system is already exhausted and will not be able to secure the room. Any penetration in the wall, not sealed correctly, is a big risk.
Any contractor that penetrates a wall at a data center might or might not seal the hole. Usually the walls have 1 to 2 hours fire rating, but one hole brings that rating down to minutes. An improperly sealed hole could create big problems. First of all, to build a 2 hour fire resisting wall involves a substantially high cost. Second of all, having a hole it a wall does not justify the cost of building a high rating fire resisting wall. Air Plenum guarantees the sealed holes will bring the resistance of the wall to its initial fire endurance.
It is not often that a fire would start in the data center. The probability of such an event is about 13%. The fire detection systems will go off when detecting smoke or even high density dust. Companies trust their fire suppression system but if the rooms are not entirely sealed, a fire suppression system is useless.
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