In our CI-project (2 floors of office space) we want to go for option 2. But we are not sure if we have to include the installed load for cooling the server room into the the total tenant space loading calculation for cooling the indoor air. Could you give an advice please?
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Paul Conrad
Energy EngineerCLEAResult Consulting
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November 8, 2010 - 10:36 am
The installed load for the cooling of a server room/data center is considered process energy. Depending on your software, you can call it a misc load, or something of that nature. The amount of energy should be identical in the proposed and baseline models, unless you use an exceptional calculation methodology. (Which makes life significantly more difficult.