Melbourne Water Data Centre, Melbourne, VIC

As part of Melbourne Water’s plans to vacate from their existing accommodation into new facilities, it was acknowledged that they needed to develop a specific space for the accommodation and management of their IT infrastructure. As part of their overall mission and vision, Melbourne Water is committed to providing sustainable design outcomes and was keen to ensure that their new data centre facility would deliver against this requirement.

NDY was appointed as the lead consultant to deliver the design for Melbourne Water’s new data centre.

The facility has been designed using an indirect free cooling solution that aims to reduce overall cooling energy whilst providing the required operating performance within the technical facility.

Through the design development of the air cooling solution and rack system design utilising free cooling and rack air containment technologies, we delivered Melbourne Water in the order of a 40% reduction in energy consumption for the operation of the cooling system compared to their existing facility. This equates to a saving of over $40,000 or 600 tons of CO2 per annum for the life of the facility.

The energy savings are but one of the facility’s benefits. Others include increased reliability, maintainability, operational safety, use of under utilised existing assets and planned expansion via adaptable services solutions.

NDY was also appointed to design the communications infrastructure for the data centre and provided input to the IT infrastructure layout and planning.