Information age buildings
Chad McCarthy was born in New Zealand and studied electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Auckland specialising in Power Electronics. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1997 and worked for NDY and Ove Arup designing Europes first large capacity data centres and completed research work in the simulation of harmonic currents in data centres. In 2002 Chad relocated to Frankfurt am Main, Germany to open and manage the Frankfurt office for Arup, in 2007 this office completed the world’s first LEED platinum rated
data centre, being responsible for all engineering disciplines. Today Chad is the director of Engineering for TelecityGroup and will describe some themes associated with energy transfer in buildings which are designed for machines and not persons.
04.11.2011. Chad McCarthy lecture from CAAD Lectures on Vimeo.