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Beyond the ordering, delivery, and installation of hardware, any build or upgrade project depends critically upon a well-defined process as insurance against surprises, cost overruns, delays, and frustration. This paper presents an overview of a standardized, step-by-step process methodology that can be adapted and configured to suit individual requirements.  \nContents  \nClick on a section to jump toit  \nIntroduction  \nBasic structure of the project  \nprocess  \nAnatomy of a step Project management Tracking responsibilities Using services to execute process steps Conclusion  \nResources  \nAppendix  \n2  \n4  \n8  \n9  \n10  \n11  \n13  \n15  \n16  \nIntroduction A data center construction project can be large or small, new construction or retrofit, com  \nplete or partial. It can involve a change in physical room size or layout or electrical capacity, an increase in power density, a redesign of power or cooling architecture, or any number of other changes to the physical infrastructure of the data center. Regardless of the size or nature of the project, successful execution depends not only upon the purchase and installation of the equipment of the physical system , but equally upon the process that pilots the project through its development and realization, from concept to commissioning. Figure 1 illustrates this concept of a project as the combination of a system plus the process that creates it.  \nThe  \nPROJECT  \nFigure 1  \nA PROJECT is comprised of the SYSTEM plus the PROCESS that creates it  \nThe project PROCESS is the subject of this paper  \nThe idea of a formalized process to guide the creation of a system is not new, but its importance to the success of data center physical infrastructure projects is just beginning tobe understood. Just as standardization of the physical system improves reliability and speeds deployment 1 , a standardized process contributes significantly to the overall success and predictability of the project and the system it creates.  \nIt takes time for the combined experience of a maturing industry to evolve toward standardization – especially in an industry with a long tradition of custom system design – but the benefits of standardized process to both user and provider can be wide-ranging and profound. For the end user, a reliable and repeatable process delivers the system more quickly, with less expense and fewer defects. For the provider of engineering services or physical equipment, a reliable and repeatable process frees up time and resources for the real business at hand – system design and implementation – increasing the scalability of the provider’s core competency. The goal of a standardized process is not to eclipse or minimize system expertise, but to facilitate it.  \nThis paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure – the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment (see box) . Although the power consumption and physical size of the IT equipment drives the design of the physical infrastructure system that supports it, the design and architecture of the IT “layer” of the data center are outside the scope of this paper.  \n1 See APC White Paper 116, Standardization and Modularity in Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure (link in Resources section) .  \nWhat constitutes a “project?”  \nIn the context of this discussion, a project is any change significant enough to need an orderly flow of tasks – a process – to coordinate and manage its execution. By this definition, building a new data center or server room is clearly a project. 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