Hi, I'm not sure which forum to post my question, moderators, if you know of a better place, do move it, hope someone can help me. I'm planning a server room for my factory, and at the moment I'm planned it such that it'll be able to support 3 41U racks.

However, upon calculating the weight of a single rack with Dell's Datacenter application, I noticed that a single rack will take up to 750kg~ at full load.

Putting 3 of these babies, will mean up to 2,250kgs on the server room itself, 19*12 room.
Add in air cond, furniture, it can top up to 2,500kgs!

Can a factory floor support such weight safely?
Im looking for information on building regulations, is there any laws in malaysia that states how much weight a floor must support?

How else would I be able to find out the floor structure strength?

Also, how about power requirements?
It says ~5,500 kWatts per fully loaded rack.

I'm not too sure about the technical lingo when it comes to powering the server.
What is the best way to power up the servers in there?

AC from Grid > UPS > PDU?
If I have a PDU with 14 sockets, then wouldn't I need a huge ass UPS as well? To support all the servers connected to that PDU.

Any help would be great.

2500kg = 50 ppl with the weight of 50kg

u think ur floor can support around 50 ppl?

Factory floors are normally built with several layers of concrete with steel. Normally even a tractor can go on it. Depends on what is the floor made of though.

check with your factory IE (industrial engineer) or Facilities engineer.

Don't mess with building load capability...

Hahaha... mmm.. thanks for the posts above.

It does make more sense if I calculate it with 50 girls on the floor
Sometimes, an outside perspective can really be great!
Thanks ronaldo.

In such a case, there shouldn't be any issues.... it seems like a lot of weight when I first add the numbers up.

Yeah, thinking back of the 100++ students in the tuition centers that I used to went to.... definitely surpassed my meager 2,500kgs already.
However, the 100 people scenarion, the weight is evenly distributed on a much larger surface, while it's more concentrated here.

Thanks iZuDeeN for your post. "building load capability" Now I have a keyword for me to google around!~

This post has been edited by eltaria: Sep 26 2007, 05:29 PM