What is a Mission Critical Facility and Mission Critical Design?
February 7th, 2024
WHAT IS A MISSION CRITICAL FACILITY?
Simply put, a mission critical facility supports and provides essential business functions that if interrupted would result in a negative impact to on-going operations. The disruption to business-as-usual activities can have severe business continuity and financial implications and, in some cases, potentially life-threatening impacts.
Mission critical facilities include Data Centers, 911 and Emergency Operations Centers, Communications and Broadcast Facilities, Hospitals, Health Science, and Medical Facilities, Power Plants and Generation Facilities, as examples.
WHAT IS MISSION CRITICAL DESIGN?
Mission critical design is the application of redundant, reliable, and highly available solutions that provide assurance to a business that the heart of their operation can maintain continuous operations despite an outage. Outages or interruptions can be the result of a natural or man-made extreme event that can be caused by weather, utility disruptions, power spikes, surges, or voltage dips, equipment failure, operational, procedural, or human error.
Mission critical design is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Each business, facility, and operation has differing mission critical needs based upon their operational requirements. The result, a unique and specifically tailored solution.
SIGMA7's APPROACH to MISSION CRITICAL PROJECTS
SIGMA7 provides secure, reliable, redundant, and highly reliable solutions for our clients enabling them to maintain 24x7x365 business operations. Our knowledgeable team, with more than three decades of experience in the development, design, and delivery of highly reliable technical solutions, has proven expertise with mission critical facilities, critical infrastructure, and related systems. We implement real world solutions that enable our clients’ businesses to perform seamlessly and without interruption while maintaining business as usual.
Our Uptime® Institute Accredited Tier Designers (ATDs) take a holistic inventory and macro view of a business, its operation, immediate, and long-term concerns. We review and consider many crucial elements beyond ‘just’ power, cooling, and IT infrastructure redundancy while developing a solution appropriate for you and your business operation and model.
In addition to ‘traditional’ mission critical architectural and engineering design service we can support your organization’s mission critical needs with:
- Site and Facility Selection
- Geographical, Environmental, and Site Risk Assessment and Analysis
- Security Assessment and Analysis
- Data Center Review, Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Tier Standards, Topology, and Operational Sustainability Study
- Single Point of Failure Analysis
- Arc Flash, Short Circuit and Coordination Studies
- Risk Mitigation Plan
- Life Cycle Assessments and Replacement Strategies
- Master planning
Want to learn more about Mission Critical Facilities or discuss how SIGMA7's integrated design approach can benefit you and your facility? Please reach out to our team.
ABOUT US
SIGMA7, a full service integrated architectural and engineering firm, provides professional services to clients in the public and private sectors. Our clients are Fortune 500 organizations in the technology, insurance, banking, and financial markets.
Still curious or want to learn more about SIGMA7, our integrated A/E approach, or see how we can assist you and your team?
Please visit SIGMA7design.com, email us at contact@sigma7design.com, or call our office at 212 779.7100 we are here to listen, answer your questions, and would like to learn more about you and your organization as well.
