FPL Data Center — Daytona

Project Overview

The FPL Data Center in Daytona, Florida is an 8,000-square-foot facility with computer rooms, network rooms, a UPS room, meeting rooms, and support spaces. BEED Engineering provided mechanical engineering design.

A data hall is not a typical office HVAC job. Equipment density, aisle containment, and a clean-agent fire suppression system have to work together in a small footprint.

The Challenge

Computer and network rooms need cooling at the rack, not at the thermostat. Raised-floor supply, hot-aisle and cold-aisle arrangement, and a suppression system that does not depend on water in the equipment space were part of the same mechanical assignment.

The design had to:

• Provide a packaged HVAC system
• Use pressurized raised floors with hot-aisle and cold-aisle layout
• Include exhaust systems and HVAC controls
• Include an FM-200 fire suppression system

BEED Engineering's Scope

BEED provided mechanical engineering design. Electrical and plumbing engineering were not listed as part of this assignment.

Engineering Solutions

Packaged HVAC serves the 8,000-square-foot data center. Pressurized raised floors deliver supply air into cold aisles, with hot aisles carrying return from the equipment. Exhaust systems and HVAC controls complete the mechanical sequence. FM-200 fire suppression is included for the equipment spaces rather than a water-based system in the computer rooms.