Summary
Subzero Engineering’s first official Composite AisleFrame deployment demonstrates how CAF can address the challenges of an existing data center environment. The article highlights why CAF was selected and how Subzero adapted the solution around raised-floor conditions, structural requirements, installation constraints and the customer’s broader infrastructure needs.
As data centers are designed to facilitate higher-density IT and HPC environments, operators must rethink their infrastructure to support our ever-evolving industry.
Steel infrastructure, once seen as standard, provided the structural foundation for data center deployments for decades. But as facilities become more complex and focused on sustainability, its weight, installation, transportation requirements, and environmental benefits introduce additional considerations into a new building for operators.
This created an opportunity for Subzero to rethink the aisle infrastructure itself and shone a spotlight on our Composite AisleFrame (CAF), launched last year as a sustainable frame-based support structure support customers for today and future digital demands.
We now have our first official deployment of CAF with one of the leading colocation data center providers in the northeastern United States, which allowed for their facility to enhance their high performance and reliability at the same time as accomplishing long-term environmental objectives with our expert team.
What you’ll learn from this case study:
- Designing around client requirements: What happens when a containment idea meets the realities of an existing data center? This new launch showcases the structural and site-specific considerations needed during deployment and how Subzero Engineering’s expert team approached the challenge in designing around an established raised-floor environment without losing sight of the customer’s wider infrastructure requirements.
- Why our CAF solution was chosen: Choosing the right containment framework involved more than evaluating the aisle itself. Weight, structural support, existing site conditions and the limitations of traditional installation methods all had to be considered.
- Design to Deployment: A strong strategy still has to work when it reaches the data center floor. Our case study looks into how Subzero Engineering responded as the project moved from initial design to installation, including the challenges our teams encountered along the way and the thinking that helped turn a complex set of requirements into a practical deployment.
To explore the project in more detail, read the full Subzero Engineering case study.