State of the art Cloud House, London

To find space to increase capacity within the city of London, UK, an existing building was turned into the seven-storey 4.5 MW mission-critical data centre ‘Cloud House’. Deerns led the MEP designs for the refurbishment of the building and assessed utilising the adjacent Millwall Dock as a primary cooling medium for the facility’s IT infrastructure and ancillary loads. Special care was taken to prevent damage to the contained eco-system by restricting the outlet water temperature and preventing marine life from entering the primary cooling installation, thus preventing potential damage and downtime for the facility.