Rosa Gimeno Sanz

Graham has a very proactive approach and is very focused on meeting the Clients aspirations within the timetable and budgetary constraints.

This helps optimise the process and allows architects to test options that may reduce the building footprint and massing..External CFD is also a great tool for site-agnostic design.

The same design can be tested across a range of weather conditions and orientations, with the risks and benefits of each highlighted.This insight at the early design stage is extremely valuable, for example the impact on plant and building layouts can be optimised when considering the prevailing wind direction..It is important to highlight that we don’t only simulate building operation, but also interpret analysis results comprehensively, focusing on the average uplift across all the heat rejection plant, generators and building ventilation intakes rather than solely on the worst-affected equipment.

This approach allows us to engage in dialogue with manufacturers to understand how any uplift will affect the performance of the equipment.. With this information, the amount of energy used for cooling can be minimised, reducing both embodied and operational carbon.. Short Break Scenarios.Short break scenarios are simulations used to ascertain the behaviour of a data hall during a switch to standby power generation following a failure of mains power, employing transient analysis within Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)..

This process has two main components.

Firstly, modelling the data hall in 3D with the restart times of all equipment inputted into the model./kWh (BEIS 2040), and that by 2050 they will be zero carbon..

The charts below show the total accumulated carbon emissions and the detailed 60-year projection of the three cases.Looking at the total emissions after 60 years, light refurbishment is the most advantageous adaptive reuse option (26% less carbon than new construction), followed by a full refurbishment (23% better than new construction).

A red dotted line in the graphs below identifies the potential additional embodied carbon reduction from materials due to the decarbonisation of the grid.The quantum of the reduction from the decarbonisation of materials would be highly dependent on where they are produced and the characteristics of the grid in those countries..