Commercial Cleaning For Data Centers

Cleaning Services For Data Centers

Data centers form the backbone of the modern economy. Larger companies host data centers to ensure peace of mind and operational resilience and maintain full control over their data streams. Smaller companies can also utilize this level of care for their server room cleaning.

Why Does Your Company Need a Data Center Cleaning Service ?

Cleanroom compliance standards
Improves equipment reliability
Removes dirt, dust, and contaminants
Minimizes the risk of downtime

Server Rooms and Data Center Cleaning Services

Pritchard Industries provides comprehensive data center cleaning services for clients in multiple industries. Our team is ISO standard trained to ensure the proper level of cleanliness and air quality in a data center environment. Services include:

Subfloor Cleaning and Anti-Static Finishing

Our technicians are trained in specialized critical vacuums on the concrete plenum (raised floor system); this type of subfloor also requires an epoxy coating to the concrete subfloor plenum surface. Typically, non-raised floor surfaces also have an approved anti-static finish. Pritchard can help with this type of floor cleaning and finishing that goes beyond your traditional commercial cleaning

Equipment Cleaning

Cleaning the racks, cages, wire management, and electronics is vital to maintaining a healthy and safe working environment. Pritchard technicians undergo specialized cleaning training for a wide range of networking equipment and storage units with green cleaning solutions.

Above Ceiling Cleaning

Data centers often utilize in-rack ventilation, which forces air through the floor and ceiling to optimize cooling efficiency. This Enables a large-scale cooling system to provide forced air rather than a dedicated ventilation fan per rack, which drives inefficiency and increased costs. In addition, per-rack ventilation systems can also rack up substantial fees via contracted maintenance programs.

Post Construction Cleaning

Data centers require a lot of construction and custom building modifications and require flawlessly clean air to ensure hardware longevity. Few things would be as catastrophic as losing a full array of striped storage drives or, worse still, a drive controller. Cleanrooms are especially important in this respect.

Disaster Recovery

Pritchard technicians are trained to efficiently clean data centers and similar spaces in a natural disaster . Data storage materials and sensitive electronics can be damaged during the cleanup process, where they may have otherwise been salvageable unless cleaning protocols are executed meticulously. Avert data loss and other issues by being prepared with a back-up plan.

MDF/IDF Closet Cleaning

Main Distribution Frame (MDF) and Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) closets are computer rooms that host cabling and vital network hardware. Technicians must be familiar with cleaning and working around sensitive cabling, data center equipment, and hardware. Some chemicals and dust removal techniques can damage these network components.

Critical Cleaning

Regular cleanings reduce the risk of downtime by ensuring that server rooms, command centers, raised flooring, and other areas for contaminant build-up are managed. Generator and battery backup rooms are two common places that maintaining a controlled environment offers substantial benefits.

Custodial Cleaning

Cleaning tables, workstations, and other vital but less sensitive areas are similarly important. Staff must be able to use all parts of the data room safely and ensure that all assets are maintained. Pritchard’s commercial janitorial staff is well-known for its cleaning quality and attention to detail.

Cleanroom Compliance Cleaning

Eliminating or reducing pollutants to specified standards to achieve a clean zone is a serious process and procedure which requires special skills, knowledge, and certifications. The Federal Standard 209E which defines standard classes of air cleanliness for airborne particulate levels in cleanrooms is the most widely adopted standard among all.

What do We Clean?

White spaces
- Server rooms
- HVAC galleries
- Command centers
- Computers rooms
- Data centers
Grey spaces
- Mechanical equipment rooms
- Electrical equipment rooms
- Generator and battery rooms
Customer areas
- Lobbies (e.g. floors and windows)
- Conference rooms
- Restrooms
Employee areas
- Offices
- Break rooms
- Restrooms

Why Choose Pritchard?

Our industry-veteran teams are available 24/7 on request, certified, and regularly retrained in accordance with the highest standards. We integrate technology into our processes to ensure that no task is left incomplete, and we build customized cleaning plans for our clients based on their unique needs. This includes a sample and count of airborne particles to check for contamination in your data center. Contact us today to learn more about Pritchard’s data center cleaning.

FAQs

What constitutes a clean room?

By definition a ‘cleanroom ’ or ‘ clean room ’ is a guarded environment specially designed and maintained with minor levels of atmosphere contaminants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles,microorganisms, and chemical vapors; these types are developed for the purpose of manufacturing pharmaceutical & bio-pharmaceutical products, biomedical & electronic devices or scientific research and other critical manufacturing.” ISO 14644-1 , FS209E, BS 5295, GMP EU Cleanroom Standards define and explain specification & standards for controlled environment and data center cleaning.

Why are data centers and other types of clean rooms a specialized service?

Air flow rates and direction, pressurization, temperature, humidity, and specialized filtration influence the Cleanroom Class & standard of cleanness. To maintain the class and standard of a cleanroom a strict cleaning regime is followed. Physical access to the cleanroom is strictly controlled, any person entering the room wears clothing such as hoods, face masks, gloves, boots, and coveralls to reduce the chances of bringing contamination and debris from outside.

What types of specialized training does your team have?

Our technicians maintain a consistent set of industry qualifications, and we ensure they are regularly retrained as standards change – ISO 14644, ASHRAE TC9, and WHO to name a few. other standards. This ensures the highest standard of cleanliness and a reliable, safe working environment for data center operators. Every Pritchard technician and staff member also leads by example to maintain a safety culture. We know you deserve the best, and our teams refuse to settle for providing anything less.

How do you handle Quality Assurance?

Our Area Managers, On-site teams and dedicated QA Directors use a mobile application to ensure optimal quality and cleanliness while also providing real-time proof of service. When we build a plan, our teams know exactly how to execute it. We also train our technicians on the latest cleaning equipment to ensure highly efficient and detailed services.

Client Testimonials

“Pritchard Industries has provided us with outstanding service for more than a year. The company has been attentive and resourceful in fulfilling all of our needs. The customer service is backed by dependable, and responsive account executives. The Pritchard team is always willing to work with me from the smallest routine service to larger uncommon clean ups. As some protests across the country experienced looting and property damage, the GM was present with a team helping to clean and restabilize my building once the dust settled.”

Plaza

Atlanta, GA

“Pritchard has been our commercial janitorial service partner for years. They are able to scale their services to suit our business needs, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’re looking for a full service janitorial provider with quality products and services you can trust, then give them a call!”

Austin, TX

“Pritchard Industries has been our janitorial partner for the past 7 years and we could not be more pleased. We aren’t just a cookie cutter venue and our needs constantly change.
We see everyone at Pritchard as partners because they take pride in our venue. On several occasions we’ve asked for their advice when planning new events and sporting competitions. We put a top priority on cleanliness and it’s obvious Pritchard has the same standards.”

City of Hoover

Government Office

“We’ve had the opportunity to utilize the disinfection spraying and anti-microbial coating services by Pritchard. It has put to ease the minds of those frontline workers that must come to the office every day. The Pritchard day and night crews have done an outstanding job of maintaining the standard of the facility while also paying special attention to the high touch points. Please pass along our gratitude and appreciation to each and every staffer that supports this facility.”

CTECC

911 Call Center

”I had a meeting with JPMorgan Chase’s corporate real estate executives earlier this week. They were very complimentary of the housekeeping services on their floors”

Senior Manager

Fortis

”We were looking for a way to increase productivity in serving our restrooms in accordance with usage and Pritchard delivered a fantastic solution”

Property Manager

Gillette

“Cleaning standard increased by a 10% margin in a one-year period, response times and manpower requirement feel, and training programs that were tailored helped reduce overall expenditures by clearly identifying tasks and routines.”

Representative

BWI Airport