Deerns is a multidisciplinary engineering firm specializing in energy-efficient design for critical facilities, including data centers. The company offers innovative upgrades and designs aimed at maximizing efficiency, scalability, and reducing operational costs while ensuring uninterrupted service. Their green technology solutions aim for significant energy savings, with case studies indicating up to 80% reductions in cooling energy costs.

1. Towards Future Proof
Data Centers
Deerns Data Center Consultancy
Infrastructure Green & Upgrade Scan Services
August 2011

2. Deerns consulting engineers
Deerns Consulting Engineers
Multidisciplinary engineering company:
Energy & Sustainability, MEP, Building
Science, Master planning, R&D
Founded in 1928
Over 500 employees worldwide: Netherlands,
UK, Germany, France,Spain, USA, UAE, China
Over $65 million revenue
International client base
Specialized in energy efficient design of
critical operational facilities like:
o Airports
o Data Centers
o Hospitals
o Level 4 bio hazard labs and Clean Rooms

3. Deerns’ Proven references last 5 years
Total White Space Area: > 2,300,000 ft2 world wide
Total IT power: > 670 MW
Experience: > 500 man-years of datacenter working experience
Total White Space Area: > 100,000 m2
Personnel: > 60 datacenter M&E > 350 MWand consultants
Total IT power: specialist

4. What We Do…
Innovative design of new & operational
(hot) upgrades of existing data centers to:
Maximize Energy Efficiency
Assure Uninterrupted Availability
Mitigate Risk (Tier levels 1, 2, 3, 4)
Support diverse configurations (racks, suites,
cages, containers, “special projects”)
Ensure scalability of facility

5. Service Offerings
Overall datacenter design
Green Scan (Energy Efficiency)
High level design and specification, SLA development
Single Point of Failure (SPOF)/Availability analysis
Site selections
Risk assessments
Innovative Cooling Solution development
Tier Level audits
Facility construction liaison & management (PM)
Working in partnership with our customers
to ensure tangible results

6. Services for New Data Centers

7. What we deliver…bottom line:
Highest ROI Total Investment: 10%
Optimized Phased Cooling Energy Costs: 80%
Investment
Total Energy Costs: 30%
Short Ramp-Up-Time
Reduced OPEX
Minimum Risk
Greenest Data Center
Optimized Proven Technologies
Short Phased Scalable Growth
Supports Highest Levels of Redundancy & Survivability
Implementable Anywhere in the World
Average PUE as low as 1.12

8. Green Cooling for Data Centers©
80 % Reduction of Cooling Energy
Save $ 1,750,000 p.a. on 25,000 sq.ft. Data Center (5 MW)
Highly Adaptable Phased Investment
GC-DC©
Standardized Proven Technology
Sustainability through enhanced Data Center Value Proposition

9. GC-DC© Free Cooling Cell: How it Works

10. Case study ROI for the GC-DC©
25,000 ft2, 200W/ft2
DX CRAC GC-DC©
TIER III
Investment $ 33,750,000 $ 30,500,000
DC IT Power 5 MW 5 MW
Cooling Power (% IT Power) 50% 10%
Average per year 2.5 MW 0.5 MW
Cooling Energy Consumption per
21.9 GWh 4.4 GWh
Year
$100K/GWh $100K/GWh
Cooling Energy Costs
$ 2,190,000 $ 440,000
$ 1,750,000 /annum
Saving per year
80 %

11. Contact
Deerns Consulting Engineers
3455 Ringsby Court 155 Gibbs Street
Suite 104 Suite 552
Denver, CO Rockville, MD
www.deernsamerica.com
info@deernsamerica.com