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Decontamination & Remediation
Room decontamination, subfloor encapsulation and
customized services help site personnel maintain controlled
environments.
Room Decontamination - DCON
Whether long-term accumulation or the result of a specific event,
contaminant deposits can cause failures or degrade hardware performance. The
WES Room Decontamination addresses all surfaces above and below the raised
access floor, and is designed to safely and effectively remove this threat
to operations. Through the intelligent application of appropriate products,
equipment and procedures this can be achieved without negative impact on the
environment being served. The WES approach to this service has been
developed and tested in thousands of computer facilities worldwide over the
last 25 years. All actions are implemented with appropriate consideration to
the hardware environment, and critical environmental factors are monitored
throughout all activity.
Decontamination & Encapsulation – DE
This service is based on the Room Decontamination –
DCON project, but includes treatment of the subfloor deck surface
in the supply air plenum. This is achieved through careful, manual
application of a specialized encapsulation product that seals the deck
surfaces, helps trap any residual contamination, protects the surfaces
against deterioration and prepares them for more effective future
maintenance decontamination.
Hardware Decontamination – HCDON
While computer hardware is designed to be robust, the migration of
contaminants to sensitive areas within the equipment can lead to degraded
performance or catastrophic failures. Where contaminant levels are extreme
and migration is verified, remediation often includes the decontamination of
hardware components at a Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) level. In order to
protect the subject hardware from electrostatic discharge (ESD) as it is
dismantled, and to protect the other hardware in the room from cross
contamination or other inappropriate environmental influences, remediation
must take place in a very controlled fashion. Typically a temporary
clean-room or air hood is constructed, and the techniques employed are
similar to those used in clean-rooms or manufacturing facilities.
It is often necessary to first decontaminate the subject room through a
Room Decontamination – DCON project.
Zinc Whisker Abatement – ZWA
Where metallic whisker contamination is present on floor tiles in a computer
facility, the result is typically catastrophic failures. Once identified,
remediation of this problem must be handled with the utmost care so as to
minimize further impact on operations and to limit any additional migration.
A WES abatement project addresses this type of contamination by removing the
source. No other effective treatment options exist. The project must also
include a thorough decontamination of all room surfaces and an appropriate
encapsulation of the supply air plenum, with monitoring of environmental
conditions throughout all activity. Inadequate precautions or inappropriate
methodology will dramatically increase the risk of additional failures and
further migration.
A Zinc Whisker Identification - ZWI
project can aid in the evaluation and planning of the remediation. A
Decontamination & Encapsulation – DE
project is an integral part of this service.
Other WES Decontamination and Remediation Services: WES offers other
standard and customized products and services including; Facility
Decontamination Maintenance Agreements, Construction Project Protection,
Access Floor Replacement, Ceiling Tile Replacement and High Efficiency
Vacuum Cleaners.
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