And open windows or doors may pose a health and safety risk if there’s a chance people will walk into them.. There’s an equally complicated scenario for mechanically ventilated buildings.
The built environment can augment or detract from those value-creating processes, however often the buildings are just like robes, they keep the rain off and the warmth in..In collaborative design processes, if you can achieve this kind of focus on the purpose of the work and the people who create the value; bringing together client, design disciplines, stakeholders, and experts; each with their ideas, concerns, knowledge, creativity, and humility, therein lies the opportunity for exquisite outcomes..
Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.
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In an ideal scenario, the peak summer design temperature would be lower than the required supply air/water temperature in the data hall.This allows the data centre to rely solely on the heat rejection plant and no chillers - minimising energy consumption and resulting in low PUE values.
PUE is dependent upon whether the heat rejection plant operates using adiabatic cooling..However, for most data centres, peak summer temperatures exceed the required supply temperature.