The challenge
The University of Maryland’s facilities and energy team needed an experienced partner to run an energy audit of the server rooms and data centers across its College Park campus, assessing where the designs fell short on efficiency and resilience and recommending how to close those gaps, on a reasonable budget and with the rigor a major public institution expects.
Our approach
- Survey current conditions: surveyed the existing server-room and data-center conditions across campus and projected future conditions against the scope of the audit.
- Risk and design-gap assessment: assessed the energy and design gaps and risks in the data-center environments.
- Prioritized recommendations: delivered practical, prioritized recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce risk, scoped to a reasonable cost.
- Project management: provided the project-management structure to keep the audit organized, documented and accountable to the university’s facilities and energy office.
The solution
As a certified Minority Business Enterprise, VeeMost brought both the technical depth and the public-sector project-management discipline the university expected. We surveyed the campus server rooms and data centers, assessed the design and energy risks, and gave the Facilities Management engineering and energy team a clear, prioritized set of recommendations they could act on, delivered with the documentation and accountability a public institution requires.
