While critical facilities increase in number and prominence within the buildings industry, so do the pressures on the facility engineers who keep them going (and on the design engineers who plan them). Seeing these trends, Engineered Systems has launched this Critical Facilities microsite. Here, you can find white papers, bylined feature articles, upcoming events, and industry news with a tilt toward hospitals, data centers, hospitality venues, and other facilities who must operate reliably around the clock. We want to spotlight your firm's news, accomplishments, and ideas in this area; e-mail editor Robert Beverly at beverlyr@bnpmedia.com.

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CRITICAL FACILITIES FEATURES
Articles and columns from facility managers, consultants, and beyond.
Life Safety Dampers

Life Safety Dampers: Types and Applications

Chapter 7 of the International Building Code (IBC)1 requires life safety dampers to protect duct and air transfer openings within building separations — fire walls, fire barriers, fire partitions, horizontal assemblies, smoke barriers, and smoke partitions. 

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Dynamic Data Center Workloads Require a Dynamic Cooling Solution

Dynamic Data Center Workloads Require a Dynamic Cooling Solution

It takes an enormous amount of electricity to cool a data center. According to Global Market Insights, on average, cooling systems represent 40% of total data center energy consumption.

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CRITICAL FACILITIES NEWS
Headlines and recent happenings of note for critical facilities.
Facility Files

Critical Central Air-Handling Standby Unit

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B May test for an addition of a standby AHU in a pharmaceutical building HVAC application.

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Editor's Note

Can’t-Fail Facilities

Critical facilities … it’s not just about data centers, much like this magazine has evolved to be much more than our traditional dead-tree issue.
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CRITICAL FACILITIES CALENDAR
Upcoming chances to learn and network around the world.
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CRITICAL FACILITIES WHITE PAPERS
Technical briefing and analysis from manufacturers in the industry.
How the Wave is Changing the Value Chain

The Impact of Hyperscale Data Centers White Paper

Ten years in, the size of data centers has increased up to 5 to 10MW, and the wholesale real estate market took hold.

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electrical best practice

An Electrical Win-Win Solution

Syska Hennessy is continually challenged to increase our client’s availability and reduce installed cost (CAPEX) at the same time. Here’s one best practice that we are using to meet this challenge.
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