RMD sets a green agenda for this year’s Conference on University Purchasing

RMD Power and Cooling will confirm its commitment to cutting electricity bills and reducing energy wastage in data centres when it attends this year’s Conference On University Purchasing (COUP) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

RMD was approved by APUC last year to supply, install and maintain Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) equipment to all Scottish and English universities and colleges.

The company will showcase a range of energy saving products at the conference including the EcoCooling Computer Room Evaporative Cooler (CREC), InfraStruXure Central, the PUE monitoring system from APC by Schneider and Uniflair precision cooling systems.

RMD is the UK’s leading independent specialist in integrated power and cooling solutions and already has existing agreements with the five English higher and further education consortia: NEUPC, NWUPC, LUPC, SUPC and CPC.

John Smykala, RMD UK’s Managing Director, said: “Energy efficiency is becoming a key issue for all universities and colleges and we believe we can help implement strategies to reduce power consumption and shrink their carbon footprint.”

COUP is the most significant event for procurement professionals and those with the responsibility for purchasing, both in the UK further and higher education sectors and across the English speaking world of higher education. It is held every two years at an institution in a different region in the UK and arranged by one of the UK higher education purchasing consortia on a rotating basis.

The 2011 COUP will feature keynote speakers and seminars on current topics that are essential to develop procurement in the higher education sector as well as a busy supplier exhibition.

From server rooms to cutting edge data centres, RMD is one of only a handful of UK companies with the ability and accreditation to supply, install and maintain power and cooling. From initial design through to installation and long-term maintenance, it creates state of the art data centres.

Running from 6-8 September 2011, COUP is hosted by APUC (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges). Contact Louise Hooton at St Andrews to book your place: coup@st-andrews.ac.uk or 01334 463005