Lighting Fixture of equipment rooms in Data Centre

Natalie Wong

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January 20, 2012

We are now working on the lighting fixtures in a data centre. For the equipment rooms, if we follow the baseline in ASHRAE 90.7-2007 by using Space-by-space method i.e. the allowance lighting power in equipment rooms would follow the "mechanical and eletrical" category, the lighting density would be too low for daily operation and thus it is hard to follow. Is there any exemption for equipment rooms of data centre for EAp2? Thank you.

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Marcus Sheffer

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Fri, 01/20/2012 - 14:26

Exemptions are noted in 90.1-2007 Section 9.2.2.3. The mechanical/electrical allowance is 1.5 W/sf. This is greater than most other space types. Is it the density that is too low or the light level? All of the ASHRAE lighting values are selected to make sure you can easily comply with the IESNA requirements for light level. Not sure why this would be a problem at that density level.

Natalie Wong

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Thu, 01/26/2012 - 09:27

Is the "mechanical and eletrical" category including data hall?

Marcus Sheffer

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Thu, 02/02/2012 - 15:56

As you can see there is not a category in Table 9.6.1 for a data center. The best fit seems to be the mechanical/electrical space type.