GLUMAC, INC.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA

We are Engineers for a Sustainable Future. – Dick Glumac, Founder Dick Glumac, Founder Glumac is a leader in sustainable design for the built environment. For more than 45 years, our unifying principle has been sustainability and creating systems that optimize energy efficiencies and minimize environmental impact. It’s an ideal that presents a responsibility not just to our clients and our designs, but to the people who occupy the spaces we help create, and the environment in which they reside. Our mission is to engineer and commission “green buildings that work™.” To that end, we bring an How Circadian Lighting Increases Productivity But what if the implications of access to daylight went beyond wellness and energy savings, and we could prove it was inextricably linked to increases in productivity? If we were able to tell hour-by-hour (even minute-by-minute) how optimized a person’s mind and body is under specific lighting conditions, we would be able to leverage that information toward creating a workplace that goes beyond simply housing business activity, and actually improves the quality of work being done. For example, in a traditional office space we tend to either have electric lighting we can turn on or off, but there is rarely a distinction in the color of that light, or its brightness (think: rows of fluorescents hung uniformly below a white dropped ceiling… your eyes may be hurting already). This works against occupants’ naturally occurring circadian rhythms and can cause dramatic decreases in overall wellness and productivity. What lighting designers seek to do with a circadian lighting system is mimic the behavior of the sun and incorporate it into the everyday work environment to benefit occupants by creating a comfortable environment and actually increasing productivity. This can be achieved with a few methods that we’ll explore in this article, including introducing natural light into areas through architectural elements and by mimicking the solar sequence through tunable LED lighting. A circadian lighting system harnesses the data we can capture from our natural biology and help optimize occupants for daylong focus, creativity, and productivity. Image courtesy of PhotonStar LED Productivity and concentration improvements , two global leaders in sustainable building design. Australia-based Norman Disney & Young works on the cutting edge of performance-based, sustainable design on projects in the higher education, healthcare, mission critical, and commercial spaces. Cosentini, headquartered in New York City, has worked on some of the most iconic buildings of the 20th and 21st centuries, including high rises, corporate headquarters, and large-scale mixed-use developments that make up the world’s most recognizable skyline. Glumac’s primary focus has always been and continues to be providing cost-effective and sustainable designs for each and every client with whom we work. Now, we will have expanded resources that grow our knowledge base, and an expanded geographical reach, including access to more than 30 offices world-wide. Our mission remains to engineer and commission “green buildings that work™.” Your points of contact at Glumac remain the same. The only change is our new found access to a global network of experts that allow us to serve you better, and push sustainable building design to the next level. Modular Data Center Design Helps Oracle Achieve Sustainability Goals With 2014 revenues at $38 billion and more than 130,000 employees company-wide, Oracle has plans. Big plans. These included reaching their internal IT growth targets for 2014 with a forward-looking plan to support IT growth needs for the next several years. Accordingly, Oracle moved forward with the build-out of the UCF Phase 2 Data Center space in West Jordan, Utah. The Glumac-lead design team master planned the UCF Phase 2 space to provide for 30,000 sf of highly reliable and highly available Tier III space. The UCF Phase 2 master plan included building the 30,000 sf of data center space in six modular 5,000 sf builds. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is an American multi-national computer technology corporation most known for its comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services and engineered systems. Perhaps less known, but equally impressive, is its commitment to sustainability practices that are embedded in every aspect of its business operations, making Oracle a sustainability leader in the high-tech industry. With more than two decades of experience implementing sustainable energy, water and waste management practices, Oracle has set some high sustainability goals for themselves. By 2016, Oracle targets a 10% reduction in energy use per employee and 6% improvement in Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) in production data centers. The Oracle Utah Compute Facility Cell 2.1 in West Jordan, Utah, is one part of this pursuit. UCF Phase 2 was originally planned as a 1,100-rack data center with the entire space populated in a single build. Oracle modified their Phase 2 plans to incorporate a phased build approach that provides for six 5,500 sf rack “Cells” to fit within the existing UCF Phase 2 shell space. Modular data center designs enable a “pay as you grow” path forward. Modular builds also allow for clients to more effectively meet their evolving IT user requirements with the newest technology improvements as well as allowing the owner to take advantage of the newest technologies available to the supporting MEP designs. This Design-Collaboration approach used on the UCF Phase 2 project heavily emphasized open collaboration between Oracle, the Glumac-led design team and the Holder Construction-led construction team. Early face-to-face strategy sessions led to a strong Basis of Design and established open project communications, a strong sense of partnering and the critical project goals. Weekly project collaboration calls and monthly on-site meetings kept the project on track.