Last Tuesday and Wednesday we gathered in the nice town of Messina at CNR ITAE Centro Prove premises  to discuss advances in the project and plan immediate actions for the next six months. The design and implementation strategy is been defined according to new efficiency standards for ICT server rooms (including the most recommended server room design options to improve energy efficiency and the waste heat reutilization), most recent procurement guidelines and the innovative DTwin approach developed in HYCOOL-IT. The strategy will tackle processes and requirements extracted from exemplary use cases and will contribute to Innovative engineering guidelines for ICT server’s room.​ Criteria for public procurement will also be set, including best practices for cooling and monitoring of operating conditions, connection to a district heating system and the reuse of a relevant share of the waste heat and highest reuse of waste heat, cooling plants using refrigerants with a lower GWP, designed and monitored PUE and ERF (Energy Reuse Factor).

We are currently finishing the technical aspects of defining the final configuration of the demonstrator at POLIMI Bovisa Campus by choosing the precise ways and positions to install each piece of equipment and how each single element will be connected and interact with one another to function as an effectively integrated system. To facilitate the installation of the innovative solutions planned, any activity preliminary to the system installation (relevant compliance, legal works, preparatory construction works, preparation of piping and electrical connection) will be planned and carried out in the next months. Taking advantage of the preparation activities, the innovative technologies are expected to be timely implemented at the demo site. After the construction phase, there will also be a period of monitoring, in which actual data can be gathered thanks to the BDTE PaaS tools and compared against planned results. This period of monitoring will be key for an extensive commissioning of the system and all its individual parts.