Site assessments are an excellent means for making an objective appraisal of a facility’s true strengths and weaknesses and can provide a substantial return on investment. This is especially true for mission-critical facilities where the real value lies in the facility’s capability to sustain continuous operations and the associated mission without interruption.
Unlike most commercial buildings in which value is measured in dollars per square foot of rentable space, critical facilities are buildings that sustain the life of a business, organization, agency, corporation, or whatever other “mission” that runs within their walls. When enterprise-sized data centers fail, entire corporations can be at risk of failure; national security, life safety communications, or the economy can be impacted as well. That’s why even the owners and occupants of small- and medium-sized data centers consider them critical.