Executive Summary
- The award recognises how Schneider Electric and APT’s data centre design enables advanced heat-recovery integration as well as cutting costs by repurposing waste heat for campus hot water and heating.
- This boosts research capability, enhances operational efficiency and drives future sustainability initiatives.
Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, and EcoXpert partner Advanced Power Technology (APT) have won the ‘Digital Transformation Project of the Year’ award at the 2025 MSP Channel Insights Awards for their project with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
This project at QMUL addressed the challenges of an ageing infrastructure and energy-intensive cooling systems. By deploying Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure, including InRow cooling, APC NetBotz environmental monitoring, DCIM software and UPS systems, the university has now achieved higher uptime, energy efficiency and future scalability. With the implementation of their heat-recovery strategy, allowing for waste heat from the data centre facility to be repurposed into a campus-wide heating network, it reduces CO₂ emissions and lowers operational costs. This allows for a new sustainability framework for their computing environments that need to support both scientific discovery and environmental responsibility.
“Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Data Centre solutions were essential to help Queen Mary bring together its power, cooling, racks and management systems, to support high-density research computing while creating a platform for a sustainable heat re-use system to help the university’s efficiency,†said John Andrew, Technical Sales Manager, APT. “We’re honoured to win the SDC Award for ‘digital transformation project of the year’ alongside Schneider Electric, whose solutions have been instrumental in driving greater efficiency and reliability for the universityâ€.
Queen Mary University is committed to sustainable development across its operational and academic activities, and with APT and Schneider Electric, the university now has an infrastructure that delivers on its sustainability strategy, as well as having a provision for future expansion for their HPC and intensive workloads. To learn more about the Queen Mary University of London project, visit the website.
