Monarch Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Training School Data Centre - Case Study
Background
Monarch Aircraft Engineering provides maintenance, repair and overhaul services for its
sister company Monarch Airlines as well as a number of other airlines. With maintenance
hangar facilities at London Luton Airport, Manchester Airport and Birmingham Airport they
provide line maintenance throughout Europe and beyond on a wide range of aircraft
types.
As part of Boeing’s GoldCare programme for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Monarch created
a new training facility at their Luton engineering base. Part of this requirement was a new
data centre to support the Boeing 787 Dreamliner training centre.
The Challenge
Monarch’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner training facility is located in existing buildings at
their Luton HQ. Converting a workshop building into a Data Centre with the high levels of
resilience and performance demanded by Boeing and Monarch required careful design
and planning.
Designing the cooling system to cope with the nonstandard airflow requirements of
Monarchs avionic equipment in an existing building with low ceilings was particularly
challenging.
“AIT project managed the design,
build and fitting out of our Boeing 787
Dreamliner training facility data
centre from start to finish. Their
expertise and professionalism has
resulted in a very efficient and
reliable data centre”
Rainer Kern,
Monarch Aircraft Engineering
control. connect. communicate The Solution
Before fitting out as a Data Centre the building had to be gutted, thoroughly cleaned and
sealed off from surrounding building areas. The concrete floor was treated to stop
deterioration of the surface and suppress dust. A raised access floor was laid allowing an
air plenum to provide a cold air supply to the avionic equipment. AIT designed a new
three phase electrical supply system and managed the switchgear installation.
AIT designed the cooling system to meet the specific requirements of the avionic
equipment used by Monarch. The N+1 air conditioning system included humidification and
network management, along with a soft-start facility and high efficiency EC fans to avoid
overloading the limited building power supply. Filtering was designed to BS EN779 G4
standards to provide 90% air filtration efficiency down to 5 microns.
Data Centre Infrastructure Management was designed by AIT to provide temperature,
humidity and air conditioning status monitoring, and a water leak detection system and fire
suppression system.
The Result
The new Data Centre is designed to meet the exacting requirements of Boeing 787
Dreamliner training servers and equipment with the flexibility to increase capacity to meet
the future needs of Monarch and their clients.
“We engaged with AIT because of the expertise of their team and data centre design
experience,” said Rainer Kern, Group Head of IT Operations, Monarch Aircraft Engineering.
“AIT project managed the design, build and fitting out of our Boeing 787 Dreamliner
training facility data centre from start to finish. Their expertise and professionalism has
resulted in a very efficient and reliable data centre.”
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