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Relay Replacement in Live Data Centers

By Conduit
As data center construction ramped up in the 1990s and the size of facilities grew, electrical distribution transitioned from low voltage (480 volt) to medium voltage (12-14kV). These design changes brought about the need for more sophisticated electrical distribution protection, which coincided with the early generations of electronic protective relays, including the widely used GE MultiLin relays. As with all electrical equipment, relays have a life expectancy. The majority of 1990s and early 2000s installed...
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January 18, 2023
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Data Center Construction: Why Standardization & Integration are Important

By Conduit

Data center owners want their new facilities to be completed on time, on budget, and operating as intended. This doesn’t seem like a particularly difficult task – except it is. Ask most people involved in data center construction, and they can give you tales of woe about projects gone wrong. All construction follows a similar path to completion: the owner identifies the need and budgets for a new facility, hires a design engineer, and awards…

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April 20, 2022
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Tales from the Script: What Is “Ready” in Commissioning?

By Conduit

Greenfield data centers are built the same way most other facilities are built: the building schedule is driven by constructability. From design through turnover, the primary and often the only driver is efficient, linear construction. While this makes perfect sense for most facilities, this traditional process leads to copious issues involving commissioning, schedule, and budget in a data center. The data center MEP equipment’s criticality creates a need for commissioning that far exceeds the typical…

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April 29, 2021
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