Infrastructure upgrades completed at Health Board in North Wales

The Health Board provides healthcare for more than 700,000 people across the six counties of north Wales – Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Wrexham). The works, the latest in a series of projects that SITE has conducted for the healthcare provider in recent years, have upgraded a series of key infrastructure areas, replacing technology that was reaching the end of its serviceable life, and bringing new features and benefits, such as improved energy efficiency. 

 The works have included:

• The design, supply, and installation of a new fire suppression system, including extraction and external status units.
• Replacement of existing lighting with an LED solution with PIR sensors.
• The supply and installation of Riello Multi Power UPS capable of 30 minutes’ autonomy at full load in N+1 configuration.
• Installation of new environmental monitoring system.
• Power supply works to support new systems.

Chris Wellfair, Projects director at Secure I.T. Environments (pictured), said: “Planned maintenance and upgrades are a key part of the data centre lifecycle.  With strong long-term planning, upgrades and equipment replacement can be phased and managed more easily from a budget perspective.  Such upgrades often bring new features and benefits, usually cut data centres’ running costs, and – once live – lower risk.”

Secure I.T. Environments says its primary aim is to ensure that clients’ critical infrastructure components are ‘protected against all external threats in a suitably protected modular room or ModCel containerised environment’. With this goal, it has established long-standing partnerships with its manufacturers, who it says are ‘at the forefront of R&D’, to ensure that the highest level of physical protection and energy efficiency are maintained.