At Electronic Environments Corporation (EEC), we consider ourselves to be the industry experts when it comes to the planning and construction of mission-critical facilities.  With proven methods, we have sought to not only assist data center operators with our services, but also to educate the industry on future trends including energy technology, cloud-based infrastructure, network virtualization and more – and the market is taking notice.

Last month, EEC was recognized among the 20 Designers and Builders within the mission-critical facility industry in CRN’s Data Center 100.  This list of the top companies is designed to help businesses discover the true experts in the field and ensure the overall efficiency, scalability and success of their facilities. Encompassing companies that exhibit a high level of innovation, technological capability and strong market presence, EEC is honored to be included among the best this industry has to offer.

Originally posted on Data Center Post On August 28, 2014

Is your data center operating at peak performance? 

(The 90's called... they want their data center back)

Should you consider upgrading your legacy data center? Ten years ago, yours was a state of the art data center. At a height of twelve inches, the raised floor was more than adequate to deliver enough supply air to cool a heat density of 75 to 100 watts per square foot, while accommodating a sea of power and data cables. Monolithic CRAC units were lined up along the perimeter of the room like a rectangular Stonehenge, pushing air at tens of thousands of cubic-feet per minute (CFM) in an effort to achieve an ambient temperature around 70ºF. The UPS utilized the latest technology, boasting efficiencies above 90% as long as the load was at least 50% of the rated capacity. Your data center might have even included N+1 redundancy. You may still remember that new data center smell…

Data center construction is one of the main services offered by Electronic Environments Corporation. Recently Construction Executive Magazine interviewed Mike Kingsley, President and Jim Stark, Design/Build Manager of Electronic Environments for an article based on data center construction and data center power and energy savings.

A study of factors affecting data center airflow in a closed aisle.

Written by Rajesh Nair, Founder & CTO of AdaptivCool, an EEC partner

I just saw an interesting article on Computerworld.com "A tale of two U.S. government data center projects" where one project came in on-time and within budget and one went over budget and was late. The moral from the story is that the project that went over budget used the Design-Bid-Build (traditional bid/spec) approach and the one that came in on-time and within budget opted for a design/build approach – where you have a single point of contact and that contact is very familiar with the project from the start and can make any necessary changes fairly quick.  Many times, as in the case of the over budget project, when a problem arises you have to negotiate with multiple teams to get things fixed which more often than not results in delays. 

As we celebrate 25 years of providing mission critical services to the information technology and telecommunications markets, we would like to thank all of our customers, both past and current, who have helped us reach this significant milestone. We look forward to another 25 years of success and valuable relationships.

We have all heard many statistics in recent years about how much money is being spent on powering data center servers and the infrastructure supporting them. Keeping up with demands from power and cooling technology and equipment is tough.