FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IT Critical Facility Energy Engineering Challenges A Senior AEE Member’s View
September 15, 2008 -- Joseph Greenawalt will be presenting the subject session (ID 2166 7179)) at the 31st World Energy Engineering Congress on October 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM. The 31st World Energy Engineering Congress is being held October 1-3, 2008 at the Gaylord National Convention Center in Washington, DC.
The target audience includes energy engineers, energy managers and contractors. The key point of the paper is that critical facilities are about reliability. There is a vast difference in operations and engineering cultures. Site Operations gets the job done in spite of its lack of engineering support or poor management. Site Operations people are the true heroes of critical data center operations. Engineering of critical facilities requires extremely talented teams of engineers and engineering managers. Most of the existing Data Centers were engineered initially and have evolved unilaterally by operational changes into facilities that are targeted today as large energy consumers.
The evolution of existing critical data centers has been largely one-sided. It is the one-sided operational focus that has skewed the evolution of data centers to energy inefficiency. Many existing chief engineers and the operators/engineering technicians are not engineers and are not qualified to make engineering decisions. Yet in the spirit of heroism that is demanded of them to maintain data center operational reliability, chief engineers and their operating staffs make engineering decisions every day.
The document also supports the point of reserving the title of "engineer" for licensed engineering professionals. Most states impose sanctions on engineers and organizations that provide engineering services but are not licensed to practice. Non engineers should cease using the title of "engineer".
"I am excited about his opportunity!" Joseph remarked, "My next challenge is to condense the paper to a 20-minute MS PowerPoint presentation that will be helpful and lead WEEC attendees to delve deeper into the subject."
