The Saughfield Building – Data Centre located at the University of Glasgow is built on a compact site on the university’s campus and is part of a £1 billion redevelopment programme. The data centre now houses the university’s ScotGrid servers (used for a collaborative project between particle physicists and computer scientists at universities and scientific institutions in the UK and at CERN in Switzerland); and the IT infrastructure running the university’s physics, astronomy and IT departments. There is also enough room inside to accommodate many more systems the university may need to add in the future. It is a state of the art, resilient facility which relies on the electrical and mechanical infrastructures built, installed and all systems commissioned, tested and witnessed.
