Data centres and mission-critical facilities operate to an uptime requirement that leaves no room for planned or unplanned service interruption. Cooling systems, chilled water loops and associated pipework are fundamental to continuous operation. Bishop Pipe Freezing provides pipe freezing and related services specifically suited to environments where shutdown is not an option.
Valve replacement on live chilled water and cooling systems
Emergency repairs without interrupting cooling to server rooms
Hot tapping for system capacity upgrades without downtime
Planned maintenance fitted around maintenance windows
Line stopping for isolation during system modifications
Pipe freezing requires no system drainage, no refill and no re-commissioning. Work can be completed in hours rather than days, and cooling is restored immediately on completion. For data centre operators managing tight SLAs, this is often the only viable approach to live pipework maintenance.
Pipe freezing is often the only viable approach when shutdown is not an option.