SYDNEY, July 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Global Switch, the leading owner and operator of large scale,
multi tenanted carrier neutral data centres in Europe and Asia
Pacific, has announced that the first stage of its
$300 million Sydney East data centre
has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Gold rating. The world class facility is amongst a small number of
data centres in Australia to be
awarded a LEED certification.
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LEED is an internationally recognised green building rating
system developed by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) to help
building owners and operators be environmentally responsible and
use resources efficiently. The LEED rating tool is designed to
assist owners and operators with aspects such as energy savings,
water use, selection of green materials and choice of resources,
and the quality levels of indoor environments.
Global Switch Sydney East, a Tier III+ world class data centre
located on the edge of Sydney's
Central Business District (CBD), received the certification by
incorporating some of the latest environmental design features
including:
- Reconfigurable power and cooling distribution, variable speed
fans, free air cooling systems and low energy CRAH units provide
energy reductions of around 40% compared to traditional data
centres.
- The ability to harvest rainwater and to recycle water.
- Installation of a green roof providing thermal protection and
at the same time reducing solar glare.
- Utilising where possible recycled or sustainable materials or
components that assisted with accomplishing overall building
efficiency.
The Sydney East data centre's LEED Gold certification is further
evidence of Global Switch's ongoing commitment to reducing its
impact on the environment through energy efficiency, reduction in
carbon emissions and the provision of green energy solutions to
customers. The achievement follows the recent certification of all
of Global Switch's data centres across Europe and Asia-Pacific to ISO 14001:2004, the award of a
BREEAM-NL Rating of Very Good for the first stage of a planned
expansion to its Amsterdam data
centre and membership of the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) scheme
in the United Kingdom.
Damon Reid, Global Switch's
Managing Director in Sydney said
"Earning this important certification for the first stage of Sydney
East is testament of the high quality environmental design we have
applied to all aspects of the data centre from initial concept
through to build and operation. This world class design
coupled with our location close to the CBD, unique for a data
centre of Global Switch's scale, has generated considerable
interest from new and existing customers, including financial
institutions, enterprises, cloud providers, ISPs and system
integrators, seeking network dense low latency solutions."
The first stage of Sydney East is now nearing full occupancy,
and early works have already commenced on the second stage of the
data centre. In order to maximise efficiencies, the same
leading environmental design concepts and construction standards of
the first stage will be applied to the second stage.
For further information about Global Switch, please visit
http://www.globalswitch.com.
About Global Switch
Global Switch is the leading large scale, carrier neutral data
centre provider in Europe and
Asia-Pacific and is a Reuben Brothers company (see
http://www.reubenbrothers.com). Established in 1998, the company
has held an unrivalled track record in delivering best-in-class
solutions. Global Switch is a vital and strategic partner for
customers that require secure and resilient data centre services
with scalable capacity and a high level customer service. The
Company's focus is on highly resilient, central, low latency,
network dense locations in prime city centre locations and internet
hubs close to its customers on the edge of financial and business
districts. It is present in eight markets including, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hong
Kong, London, Madrid, Paris, Singapore and Sydney. The data centres currently total
around 300,000 sq m (3,200,000 sq ft) of floor space and are
occupied by a broad range of customers, global and national, large
and small including government organisations, financial
institutions, enterprises, global systems integrators,
telecommunication carriers, managed service providers and other
hosting businesses.
For more information please visit our website:
globalswitch.com
Contact:
Damon Reid
Managing Director, Sydney
Global Switch
+61(0)29566-7001
dreid@globalswitch.com
Ali Ballantine
Group Marketing & Communications Director
Global Switch
+44(0)20-7802-5154
aballantine@globalswitch.com