Excellence Award 2022 Winners

On 19 May 2022, Electrical Review and Data Centre Review had the pleasure of hosting the 3rd annual Electrical Review and Data Centre Review Excellence Awards, in partnership with Riello UPS, at the breath-taking Christ Church in Spitalfields, London.

After two postponements due to Covid-19 we were thrilled to be back to celebrate excellence, best practice, innovations and technical developments across a range of projects and products from the electrical and data centre industries.

Thank you to all who joined us on the night and a huge congratulations to all the winners.

The Award winners were:

POWER

Power Product of the Year

Sponsored by Omicron

WINNER: Riello UPS – Multi Power Modular UPS

Also shortlisted:

  • Kohler Power – Tier EPA-Certified Tier 4 Final KD Series Generator
  • Bachmann – BlueNet Intelligent Power Distribution Unit
  • CENTIEL – Tier III Ready Data Centre by Cannon Technologies in Conjunction with CENTIEL
  • SolarEdge Critical Power – CyberSecure cloud monitoring for UPS systems

Power Project of the Year

Sponsored by Omicron

WINNER: Sunpower – ‘Project Green Heat’ helping to move a major utilities provider towards a Green fleet of vehicles

Also Shortlisted:

  • Vertiv – Installation of UPS and cooling technologies at Green Mountain’s DC1-Stavanger Data Center, Norway
  • CENTIEL – Keysource in association with CENTIEL, installation of UPS and Li-ion battery technology to the Cell and Gene Therapy Centre, UK
LIGHTING

Lighting – Product of the Year

Sponsored by Schneider Electric

WINNER: Delmatic – DALI-2 SpaceApp Microsensor

Also shortlisted:

  • Thorn Lighting – Plurio LED
  • Trilux – E-Line NEXT LED modular continuous line
  • PowerLed – BLADE2 M
 

Lighting – Project of the Year

Sponsored by Schneider Electric

WINNER: Zumtobel – University of Lincoln Medical School

Also shortlisted:

  • Ecolighting – Birmingham Botanical Gardens
  • Delmatic – University College Hospital, Grafton Way Building
FIRE SAFETY & SECURITY

Fire Safety & Security – Product or Project of the Year

WINNER: Protec Fire Detection PLC – Cirrus HYBRID 

Also shortlisted:

  • Firexo – fx73 & fx51
  • Aico – Ei1000G SmartLINK Gateway
  • Danfoss Drives – development of the first certified fan/VSD packaged solution for smoke control in buildings, in partnership with Fläkt Woods
ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Energy Efficiency – Product of the Year

Sponsored by Yuasa

WINNER: Schneider Electric – Galaxy VL

Also shortlisted:

  • Iceotope – Ku:l Extreme Micro Data Centre
  • Kohler Power – Tier EPA-Certified Tier 4 Final KD Series Generator
 

Energy Efficiency – Project of the Year 

Sponsored by Yuasa

WINNER: Vertiv –  Energy Savings as a Service (ESaaS) across Telefónica sites in Europe and LATAM

Also shortlisted:

  • Vertiv – UPS and cooling technologies at Green Mountain’s DC1-Stavanger Data Center, Norway
  • Thorn Lighting – Newport City Council 
  • Delmatic – University College Hospital, Grafton Way Building
INNOVATIVE

Innovative Project of the Year

Sponsored by Aico 

WINNER: CSC IT Center for Science – LUMI EuroHPC data centre project

Also shortlisted:

  • RiT Tech Ltd – Bezeq International Colocation Data Center
  • Innovolo – Clean Pig Robotic Pipe Cleaning and Testing Machine Project
SUSTAINABLE

Sustainable – Project of the Year

Sponsored by Aico

WINNER: Danfoss Drives – Aarhus Water Limited energy neutral project

Also shortlisted:

  • Vertiv – Energy Savings as a Service (ESaaS) across Telefónica sites in Europe and LATAM
  • ServerFarm – TOR-1 Toronto Data Center 300 Bartor Road
  • Vertiv – UPS and cooling technologies at Green Mountain’s DC1-Stavanger Data Center, Norway
DATA CENTRE DESIGN & BUILD

Data Centre Design & Build Product of the Year

Sponsored by Centiel

WINNER: Iceotope – Ku:l Extreme Micro Data Centre

Also shortlisted:

  • Bachmann – BlueNet Intelligent Power Distribution Unit
  • CENTIEL – Tier III Ready Data Centre by Cannon Technologies in Conjunction with CENTIEL 
 

Data Centre Design & Build – Project of the Year

Sponsored by EnerSys

WINNER: Sudlows – Ashton Old Baths

Also shortlisted:

  • Green Mountain – 2.5 MW Mountain Hall Data Center Expansion
  • Schneider Electric – Digital Transformation project for Newcastle City Council
  • Datacentre UK – Turnkey DC project
  • CENTIEL – Keysource in association with CENTIEL, installation of UPS and Li-ion battery technology to the Cell and Gene Therapy Centre, UK
DATA CENTRE COOLING

Data Centre Cooling – Product of the Year

Sponsored by Bachmann

WINNER: EkkoSense – Cooling Advisor

Also shortlisted:

  • Iceotope – Ku:l Extreme Micro Data Centre
  • Aria-DENCO fan wall unit
 

Data Centre Cooling – Project of the Year

Sponsored by Bachmann

WINNER: Vertiv – UPS and cooling technologies at Green Mountain’s DC1-Stavanger Data Center, Norway

Also shortlisted:

  • Sudlows – HD cooling solution at Science Technology Facilities Council, Swindon
  • EkkoSense – Cooling solution and monitoring for Virgin Media O2
DATA CENTRE COLOCATION

Data Centre Colocation Supplier of the Year

Sponsored by Vertiv

WINNERS: Vantage Data Centers

Also shortlisted:

  • IP House
  • Green Mountain
  • Custodian Data Centres
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT

Technical Leader of the Year

Sponsored by Enersys

WINNER: Simon Binley, Head of Project Management for the Wellcome Sanger Institute

Shortlisted:

  • Jason Yates, Technical Services Manager, Riello UPS Ltd
  • Dave Breith, CEO, Firexo

Consultancy/Contractor of the Year

Sponsored by ECA

WINNER: 2bm Limited

Also shortlisted:

  • Slatters Electrical
  • Data Centre UK
  • Oper8 Global

 

The final two Awards, sponsored by Riello UPS, recognised ‘the best of the best’ from all recipients of this year’s awards.

Outstanding Project of the Year
Sponsored by Riello UPS

WINNER: Vertiv –  Energy Savings as a Service (ESaaS) across Telefónica sites in Europe and LATAM

Outstanding Product of the Year
Sponsored by Riello UPS

WINNER: Iceotope – Ku:l Extreme Micro Data Centre

All winning entries will also be considered for the Outstanding Project and Product of the Year awards.