“We are delighted to receive this award which is a marvellous recognition of all the efforts of those involved in ensuring the new building was designed to the highest scientific, services and energy efficient standards,” said Cormac Harrington, Head of Business Operations at Tyndall.

He added, “Reducing energy usage right across our process intensive facility is a core philosophy at Tyndall, and each heating and cooling system is designed to be kept as close as possible to ambient temperature, to minimize the carbon footprint of the systems.”

Pat Mehigan, Tyndall Facilities Manager explained, “Our new 5,000m2 research building, which demands stringent room and humidity requirements, is heated by the energy generated from our substantial clusters of data server, avoiding almost 2,000 MW of natural gas usage per year. These servers are a critical research tool at Tyndall, providing researchers with large-scale computational ability to complete intensive theory modelling programmes.”

This is part of a sustainable development programme at Tyndall to reduce energy usage and carbon footprint across the site. By implementing energy saving measurements throughout the site Tyndall has already succeeded in achieving a 40% reduction in its overall energy usage.

Picture L-R: Brid Horan, Executive Director ESB Services and Energy Solutions; Pat Mehigan, Facilties Manager, Tyndall; Cormac Harrington, Head of Business Operations, Tyndall and Brendan Halligan, Chairman of SEAI.

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