AIA-Approved Courses
CPI has continuing education credit (CEC) courses that have been approved by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). These courses are presented by our highly-trained and experienced employees working throughout the company. Many of our employees hold various industry certifications and participate on advisory boards and technical committees.
Here are the course descriptions:
Energy Efficiency in Data Centers: The Importance of Airflow Management and Monitoring - 1.5 credits
This course reviews the data center's impact on building design and then identifies and describes the most effective design approaches and fitments that building designers can employ to control their capital and operating costs, spatial needs, and energy consumption. Data centers are consuming up to 200X the energy of comparably sized office space, and are rapidly evolving in numbers, size, location, and energy demands. These facilities are frequently becoming integrated into other buildings and the purview of the architect.
Take this course now, available through host AEC Daily.
Benefits for Data Center Advanced Airflow Management - 1 credit
This course defines advanced airflow
management and clarifies the difference between comfort cooling and data center
cooling. This course will explain the benefits of advanced airflow management
through examples from computational fluid dynamics, case studies and basic
physics. Attendees will get direction on implementation and metrics for
success.
Economics of Airflow Management (Advanced) - 2 credits
This course provides tools for translating the efficiency gains from good airflow management practices into bottom-line numbers that can be used for cost justifying data center improvement projects and making intelligent decisions between competing design options.
Implications of ASHRAE Guidelines on Data Center Design - 2 credits
This course answers the question: How do I go about determining the data center design and associated operating temperature that will give me the lowest total cost of ownership and meet my ICT equipment reliability requirements? The course draws heavily on ASHRAE and computer equipment manufacturers’ research findings.
Operational Benefits of Data Center Airflow Containment - 1 credit
This course relies heavily on computational fluid dynamics to illustrate the importance of getting free from comfort cooling approaches to data center cooling, and then provides a data-driven review of results achievable through good airflow containment.
How to Use ASHRAE Environmental Guidelines to Determine Optimum Temperature for your Data Center - 3 credits
A half-day course drawing on industry research, best practices and equipment performance specifications to delineate a methodology for determining the optimum data center temperature for producing the lowest total cost of ownership and acceptable equipment reliability predictions for new designs, major retrofits and efficiency improvement projects.
Contact Us
For more information about CPI's courses, or to schedule training in your area, contact CPI's Training & Development Manager, Lauren Kallail.