MAR-APR 2018 SEAB 23World NEWSLondon, UK – Teraco in collaboration with
STULZ celebrated winning an award at the
DCD 2017 Awards. The companies were
commended for increasing its energy
efficiency and reducing the carbon
footprint in a very challenging climate at
the Isando Data Centre 7 in Johannesburg.
Now in their 11th year, the DCD
Awards went global for the first time
and celebrated the best projects,
technologies, companies, individuals
and teams from across the industry.
The 2017 event took place in December
2017 at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel.
Approximately 700 guests gathered to
celebrate these hotly contested awards
which received over 200 entries from 30
countries.
Barrister turned comedian and
broadcaster Clive Anderson, who hosted
the event presented the Energy Efficiency
Improvers Award (sponsored by Starline)
to Brendan Dysel, Head of Infrastructure
Management at Teraco. There was stiff
competition from DigiPlex (Norway),
Liberty Global in the UK and vXchnge in
USA.
Teraco is the first provider of resilient,
vendor neutral data environments in
South Africa and is leading the way in
the region by making energy efficiency
one of its highest priorities.
Kurt Plötner, Vice president of STULZ
Germany commented, “We are delighted
that Teraco and STULZ South Africa
have received this accolade. It is a
tremendous achievement which would
not have been possible without the
sales, product management and design
engineers in Hamburg being absolutely
focused and determined to build an
energy efficient, state of the art data
centre in Johannesburg’s challenging
climate. Needless to say that we at STULZ
are proud to be associated with Teraco and
their team!
The 27,500 square metres colocation
facility has a net cooling capacity of 2 MW,
supplied by a chilled water system which
is concurrently maintainable, with three
CyberCool 2 chillers (N+1) and 14 CyberAir
3 chilled water units from STULZ. Due
to extremely hot summers, the ambient
temperature reaches 40°C. However,
with water temperatures of 22°C/14°C
Teraco is able to switchover into mix-
mode at 20°C ambient temperature
(approx. 5.700 h/a) to increase the energy
efficiency by reducing the electrical
power consumption of the chiller. The
design of the installation allows the
use of free cooling for approximately 65Chicago, Illinois, United States – Thanks
to the significant success and growing
interest in CTBUH’s annual conference,
CTBUH is pleased to announce that it will
be hosting two conferences each year
moving forward.
Incorporating what was previously
known as the CTBUH Annual Awards
Event, the first annual CTBUH Tall + Urban
Innovation Conference will explore and
celebrate the very best in innovative
tall buildings, urban spaces, building
technologies, and constructing practices
Registrations now open for 2018 Tall + Urban Innovation
Conference
from around the world. This two-day
conference will see the owner/developers
and design teams for 45 Finalist projects
compete in front of an international
audience and live juries for winningdistinctions in eight award categories.
It will take place on 31 and 31 May
2018 at the Radisson Blue Aqua, Chicago,
US. For more information, visit http://
tallinnovation2018.com.Teraco and STULZ triumph at the DCD Global Awards 2017
From left to right: Mathew George from
Starline, Brendan Dysel from Teraco and Clive
Anderson at the DCD Global Awards 2017.percent of the year, saving a significant
amount of energy (circa 45 percent) and
reducing Teraco’s carbon footprint.
STULZ were also proud to supply the
cooling solutions for The MareNostrum
Data Center in Spain which won the
World’s Most Beautiful Data Center
Award.