- United Arab Emirates
- Saudi Arabia
- Qatar
- Oman
- Kuwait
- Bahrain
- Pakistan
- Egypt
- Libya
- Afghanistan
- Sudan
- Cyprus
- Fiji
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Mauritius
- South Africa
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Mozambique
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Angola
- And Growing up
Data Centre Life Cycle
- Data centre lifecycle stages and phases
- Exercise: Stage/Phase/Milestone/Document mapping
Design Preparation
- Creation of a SON – Statement Of Need
- Technology review
- Conceptual sizing
- How to calculate for computer room space
- How to calculate facility space
- How to calculate incoming power
- Exercise: Conceptual sizing building and power
- Analysing capacity of existing facility
- Analysing investment options
- Site selection
- Permits and approvals
- Exercise: Site selection
- Conceptual design
- Budget and project timeline
- Business case preparation
- Project delivery structure
- Project management options
- Project manager and team
Design Planning
- OSRA – Operational Systems Requirement Analysis
- TFRA – Technical Facilities Requirement Analysis
- Operations and maintenance review
- RFP – Request For Proposal process
- Vendor selection
Design Development
- Project planning
- Design development
- PDR – Preliminary Design Review
- Equipment selection
- FDR/V – Final Design Review/Validation
- Exercise: Full design validation of power, cooling, floor plans, fire suppression
- Design freeze and LLTI
- Creation of construction documents
- BOM/BOQ – Bill Of Material/Bill Of Quantity
- Exercise: Equipment selection
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Acquire
- Requirements of purchase orders
- Shipping terms
- FWT/FAT – Factory Witness Test/Factory Acceptance Test
- Sequencing
- Incoming goods inspection and handling
- Asset management
Construct
- Temporary essential services
- Erection of the building
- Permanent essential services
- Building inspection
- Snag list
- COF – Certificate Of Fitness
Fit-Out
- Fit-Out
- Builders cleaning
- As-Built Drawings
Test & Commissioning
- IET – Individual Equipment Test
- IPVT/IST – Integrated Performance Verification Test/Integrated Systems Test
- Common mistakes with IET/IPVT
- Deep cleaning
- Exercise: IET/IPVT scripting
Hand-Over
- Facility hand-over requirements and documents
- PCC – Practical Completion Certificate
- DLP – Defect Liability Period
- Defect Management
- ICT Systems Installation
- ICT Systems Testing
- Hand-Over/DLP Expiry
- FCC – Final Completion Certificate
Retirement
- Reasons and definitions of retirement
- Building the business case and project plan
- Sequencing
- Transfer of site
- Demolishing of site
- Legal matters
- FCC – Final Completion Certificate
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