planning / / 6 min read
Utility documents for data center sites: what each one commits
What a capacity letter, a connection offer, a connection agreement, an energisation certificate and a supply contract each commit a utility to.
Abdelilah SidquiInsights
Articles by the UBIK principals.
The articles are written for owners, developers, operators, investors and contractors making technical decisions about data centers.
Each article covers one subject: what a Tier objective commits a design to, who executes and accepts each commissioning level, what each utility document commits the utility to, or how an efficiency figure is measured.
Drawn from current UBIK work. Nothing here is a forecast, a product recommendation or a substitute for the brief of a specific facility.
certification / / 6 min read
Tier certification: what an owner is actually buying
This article sets out what each Tier certification verifies, what it does not, and the four decisions about resilience that belong in the design brief.
Carlos Garcia Sevillaenergy / / 6 min read
Energy performance: look beyond a single PUE
PUE is useful when its measurement boundary and load assumptions are understood. This article sets out how to read a quoted figure and what it leaves out.
Carlos Garcia Sevillacommissioning / / 6 min read
Commissioning responsibility matrix: who executes, witnesses and accepts each level
Who executes, witnesses, reviews and accepts each of the five commissioning levels on a data center project, and the record each level should leave.
Carlos Garcia SevillaNext step
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