Cundall win 2 awards at the 2010 ACE Engineering Excellence awards

 

The first win of the night was in the Building Structures (Medium Firm) category where 240 Regent Street received a commendation.  Cundall’s Critical Systems team then scooped the Research, Studies and Consulting category for developing methodologies to tackle cooling system resilience in data centres. 

Building Structures (Medium firm)
COMMENDED – Cundall
240 Regent Street, London
240 Regent Street, the former Dickins & Jones building has been transformed from an under-trading department store into quality mixed-use development creating a vibrant landmark development in the heart of London’s West End.  This project demonstrated how, through detailed engineering appraisal, a historic building unable to continue in its former use, can be rejuvenated to create modern space suitable for the future, as well as creating additional space over the same footprint.

Research, Studies and Consulting
WINNER – Cundall
Extending the boundaries of modelling: Impact of site-power failure on Datacentres
The resilience of the cooling system is paramount for the safe operation of any data centre.  During an unplanned site power failure, the particular response of the chilled water system, could comprise the thermal environment.  Cundall have developed a series of methodologies to tackle such problems, through dynamic modelling of the air and water systems.  The work demonstrates that, for the particular case studied, confidence in the omission of expensive / energy exhaustive back up plant could not have been achieved without the advanced transient analysis conducted here.

For more information on the awards please visit www.acenet.co.uk.  For further information on our Structures work please contact Gary Rollison and for further information on our Critical Systems work please contact Mike Golding.