[geeks] Advice for server room cooling/fire control

[Nathan Raymond]

Hi,

I was wondering if the collective intelligence and experience of this list 
can help me out or point me in the right direction.  I'm the admin at a 
company that has a server room/storage room where everything environmental 
is an afterthought.  The building is an old mill building, 20ft ceilings. 
The climate control is a ceiling mounted cooling/heating unit outside the 
server room with the thermostat in the CEO's office and vents that go to 
several places besides the server room, which seems to get very little of 
what's left over of the cooling.  Cooling is also on a timer to save 
energy, so during summer nights the server room simply cooks.  Fire 
control is a ceiling mounted sprinkler system that's the same as what rus 
through the rest of the office.

All far from ideal.  I need to come up with financial justificatoins for 
why thigns should change - where can I go for costs (costs of what would 
happen if we don't change the setup, costs of what would happen if we do 
make changes and what would be saved in the case of disaster)?  I don't 
really know where to start with this.

Thanks for any pointers,
Nathan