Best Practices Checklist
The pages below provide two levels of best practice information: the first covers general management and organizational strategies and the second covers specific technical strategies, organized into a standard hierarchical framework of Goals > Objectives > Strategies > Metrics.
Management & Organizational Best Practices
Maximizing energy efficiency while maintaining — if not improving — data center performance and reliability is not just a matter of substituting better technologies and operational procedures. The broader institutional context of the design and decision-making processes must also be addressed.
Technical Best Practices
We provide 67 "best practices" for optimizing energy efficiency and facility performance. The bulleted items indicate key objectives for capturing these benefits. Read an in-depth report published by Energy Design Resources [download]. The links provide details on these objectives and specific technical strategies for obtaining the benefits.