| Client name : | City of Lausanne |
| Area of activity : | Public sector |
| Accompanying mode : | Auditing & Consultancy – Project management assistance |
| Type of service : | Construction of new IT rooms – Energy optimization – Service continuity improvements |
The City of Lausanne wanted to improve the security, service continuity and overall energy efficiency of its computer rooms. The municipality y turned to APL to determine its needs and manage the project, which sought to construct two new modular computer rooms: one main room and one backup room (for disaster recovery).
Mission objectives
- Replace obsolete computer rooms with modern and energy-efficient computer rooms
- Improve continuity of service by setting up a main room and a disaster recovery room located about 12 miles away
Services provided
- Audit of existing setup and expression of requirements
- Formalization of specifications, assistance with selecting companies, drafting contracts and following the procurement process
- Works monitoring and management
- Testing and acceptance
Client benefits
- A box-in-a-box design for the main computer room, and a container design for the backup computer room (located outside)
- Monitoring and general coordination of the project by APL through to completion
- A high level of energy efficiency, for any load rate or time of year, with technical innovations: a free-cooling system for the main room that draws on Lake Geneva (PUE: 1.2), and an indirect free-cooling system for the disaster recovery room (PUE: 1.4)
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