Testing & Commissioning
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Data Centre Testing and Commissioning Services
Our highly qualified, independent data centre testing and commissioning team provide an extensive range of services tailored towards modern data centre environments – all of which start with the accurate planning of a commissioning programme. Our testing teams instinctively understand the interactions of critical and data centre systems and the dependencies which exist between the two. We recognise that considering these points early on in a project minimises the impact on the overall Testing and Commissioning programme.
Data Centre Testing and Commissioning Process
DCiCON can fully undertake data centre commissioning on your behalf and we are also able to witness systems and sign them off as completed. Within an existing facility, our team will further assess and plan the commissioning in order to minimise risk and ensure continuity to live services.
Comprehensive commissioning planning and management begins as early as the facility’s conceptual design phase to minimise dependencies and mitigate risk and will often continue throughout the delivery of the project.
Our approach ensures that the various elements of the infrastructure all work together effectively and efficiently, resulting in a coordinated system rather than distinct components.
Following on from the systems commissioning stage, our independent Testing and Commissioning teams can provide extensive and industry-leading Systems Acceptance Testing (SAT) and Integrated Systems Testing (IST) including a clear and detailed sequence and programme.
The IST then tests the data centre as a full and complete system and is the ideal opportunity to ensure that everything is operating correctly before being handed over to the client. The IST will push the data centre to its design limits in terms of capacity, maintainability, and fault tolerance. If the facility is designed to tolerate a generator failing to start we will simulate this, likewise, if the chillers are designed to be maintained live, we will demonstrate it. Ultimately, the IST is the foundation for future confidence, ensuring the facility will operate as intended even when pushed to the limit.
Our team of Commissioning Engineers will plan, undertake, and record testing independently from the Project Delivery teams. Alternatively, the Sudlows engineers can act as your representative or independent witness where testing is being coordinated and demonstrated by others.
