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Seismic and Vibration Protection for Data Center
Why Vibration and Seismic Protection Is Critical for Modern Data Center.
Data center are the backbone of our digital world—housing critical IT infrastructure that must operate with absolute precision and reliability. Yet, one often underestimated threat to their performance and safety is vibration. Whether caused by mechanical equipment, nearby construction activity, or natural seismic events, vibrations can have a significant impact on data center operations. Sensitive hardware such as server racks, cooling systems, and power generators can suffer from misalignments, micro-damage, and accelerated wear due to continuous or sudden vibrations.
In earthquake-prone regions, the risk is even higher. Seismic shocks can lead to structural damage, equipment failure, or even complete operational downtime—causing data loss, business disruption, and millions in recovery costs. To ensure resilience, compliance with Tier standards, and long-term operational stability, advanced vibration control systems must be integrated into the design and construction of data centers from the ground up. At GERB, we specialize in seismic isolation and vibration protection—helping data centers around the world safeguard their infrastructure, increase uptime, and future-proof their investments.
GERB systems safeguard buildings, servers, and critical infrastructure from vibration and seismic events – ensuring uptime, safety, and longevity.
Built to Protect — 3 Reasons Data Center Operators Trust GERB Vibration Control Solutions:
- Enhanced Safety: Mitigate risks from earthquakes and operational vibrations with globally certified vibration isolation technologies.
- Improved Operational Comfort: Reduce noise and structural transmission from rotating or unbalanced equipment – creating better working environments and reducing disturbances.
- Extend Lifespan & Reduce Downtime: Protect infrastructure from micro-damage, mechanical wear, and fatigue – minimizing maintenance costs and failures.
Want to learn more about seismic and vibration protection for data centers? Get in touch with us and we discuss your use-case individually.
GERB Applications for Optimized Vibration Control in Data Center
Urban data centers present a unique chance to implement sustainable heat recovery solutions, effectively turning waste heat into valuable energy and creating a strong synergy between technology and environmental goals. Our vibration control systems are essential to these projects, as they help reduce noise emissions and enhance operational efficiency by ensuring stable and reliable performance. For more information on our commitment to sustainability, please see our ESG principles.
Our systems are perfectly suited to the modular construction of data centers. Designed for targeted application where needed most, they provide planners with maximum flexibility to build and scale infrastructures efficiently across multiple sites. Engineered specifically for modular setups, GERB components help optimize both performance and adaptability.
Maximize uptime with proven seismic protection: The Base Control System (BCS) is engineered for critical infrastructure like data centers, where downtime is not an option. It combines high-performance helical steel springs with advanced Viscodamper® technology, forming a 3-dimensional damping system strategically positioned beneath the structure. This tailored solution delivers superior seismic protection, minimizing structural stress and vibration during earthquakes. The result: resilient buildings and uninterrupted operations, even in high-risk seismic zones.
Pipeworks within the data centre can be subject to machine induced vibrations and cause fatigue damage. Pipe hangers can avoid the fatigue loads significantly and reduce maintenance costs for ensuring uninterrupted operations.
Protect your data center from unwanted vibration and mechanical stress with our proven elastic support systems. Using compact spring elements, HVAC equipment and server racks can be easily isolated—even with retrofits. Reduce noise and vibration from rotating equipment like pumps and compressors and shield sensitive server infrastructure from external impacts and structure-borne noise.
In high-performance data centers, cooling lines are critical infrastructure—but they’re vulnerable to to external vibration, seismic loading pulsation and thermal displacements. Our pipework dampers offer a proven solution to reduce stress on pipes, joints, and connected equipment. Prevent fatigue, leakage, and premature wear in sensitive pipe systems and improve long-term reliability and uptime of your cooling infrastructure.
Rotating and pulsating equipment like compressors, heat pumps, and heat exchangers are essential to your data center’s cooling performance—but they generate vibration that can travel through the building, affecting sensitive areas and neighboring environments. With integrating GERB elastic support systems you can isolate vibrations at the source and reduce structure-borne noise to protect your building structure and adjacent systems from mechanical stress.
In sensitive zones like control rooms, network operations centers, or electrical switchgear rooms, even minor vibrations can disrupt performance, monitoring, or long-term reliability. GERB’s floating floor systems provide a proven solution to isolate entire room structures from building-borne and environmental vibrations. With an integrated floating floor you create vibration-free zones to protect personnel, monitoring equipments and electronics. Ideal for control rooms, UPS spaces, lab areas, and secure zones.
For data centers requiring the highest level of resilience, full structural isolation using GERB spring elements offers an unparalleled solution. As a single support element type, the 3D isolation system delivers complete protection—seismic resilience, source isolation to prevent equipment vibrations from affecting neighbors, and recipient isolation to shield sensitive systems from external disturbances like traffic. By fully decoupling the building with GERB spring elements, data centers gain passive, always-on protection against ground-borne vibration and earthquakes—engineered for long-term operational security.
Seismic protection for emergency diesel generators with GERB Spring-Viscodamper® combination. Emergency diesel generators are the last line of defense in a data center’s power infrastructure—failure is not an option. Yet during earthquakes, these heavy, high-value systems are at risk of damage from sudden ground motion and structural acceleration. GERB’s elastic support systems are engineered to protect generators from seismic impacts and ensure functionality when it’s needed most.
In regions prone to seismic activity, every second of uptime counts. GERB’s advanced seismic protection solutions ensure that data center backup systems remain fully operational, even during the most severe earthquakes. Built for efficiency and engineered for resilience, our technology keeps your critical infrastructure running when it matters most.
The seismic isolation system can be installed either beneath the foundation slab (8) or directly beneath the Diesel Generator Set.
About GERB – Experts in Vibration and Seismic Isolation Since 1908
GERB is a global engineering company specializing in vibration control and seismic protection. For over 100 years, our systems have been used to protect critical infrastructure—from power plants and industrial facilities to high-rise buildings and rail systems.
With a global presence and projects worldwide, GERB designs, manufactures and delivers advanced solutions for the isolation of buildings, machinery, and equipment. Our systems are custom-engineered to meet project-specific needs and have been field-tested under the most demanding conditions. Trusted by leading companies in energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure, GERB brings proven expertise to vibration and seismic protection.
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Seismic and Vibration Protection for Data Center
Why Vibration and Seismic Protection Is Critical for Modern Data Center.
Data center are the backbone of our digital world—housing critical IT infrastructure that must operate with absolute precision and reliability. Yet, one often underestimated threat to their performance and safety is vibration. Whether caused by mechanical equipment, nearby construction activity, or natural seismic events, vibrations can have a significant impact on data center operations. Sensitive hardware such as server racks, cooling systems, and power generators can suffer from misalignments, micro-damage, and accelerated wear due to continuous or sudden vibrations.
In earthquake-prone regions, the risk is even higher. Seismic shocks can lead to structural damage, equipment failure, or even complete operational downtime—causing data loss, business disruption, and millions in recovery costs. To ensure resilience, compliance with Tier standards, and long-term operational stability, advanced vibration control systems must be integrated into the design and construction of data centers from the ground up. At GERB, we specialize in seismic isolation and vibration protection—helping data centers around the world safeguard their infrastructure, increase uptime, and future-proof their investments.
GERB systems safeguard buildings, servers, and critical infrastructure from vibration and seismic events – ensuring uptime, safety, and longevity.
Seismic and Vibration Protection for Data Center
Why Vibration and Seismic Protection Is Critical for Modern Data Center.
Data center are the backbone of our digital world—housing critical IT infrastructure that must operate with absolute precision and reliability. Yet, one often underestimated threat to their performance and safety is vibration. Whether caused by mechanical equipment, nearby construction activity, or natural seismic events, vibrations can have a significant impact on data center operations. Sensitive hardware such as server racks, cooling systems, and power generators can suffer from misalignments, micro-damage, and accelerated wear due to continuous or sudden vibrations.
In earthquake-prone regions, the risk is even higher. Seismic shocks can lead to structural damage, equipment failure, or even complete operational downtime—causing data loss, business disruption, and millions in recovery costs. To ensure resilience, compliance with Tier standards, and long-term operational stability, advanced vibration control systems must be integrated into the design and construction of data centers from the ground up. At GERB, we specialize in seismic isolation and vibration protection—helping data centers around the world safeguard their infrastructure, increase uptime, and future-proof their investments.
GERB systems safeguard buildings, servers, and critical infrastructure from vibration and seismic events – ensuring uptime, safety, and longevity.
Built to Protect — 3 Reasons Data Center Operators Trust GERB Vibration Control Solutions:
- Enhanced Safety: Mitigate risks from earthquakes and operational vibrations with globally certified vibration isolation technologies.
- Improved Operational Comfort: Reduce noise and structural transmission from rotating or unbalanced equipment – creating better working environments and reducing disturbances.
- Extend Lifespan & Reduce Downtime: Protect infrastructure from micro-damage, mechanical wear, and fatigue – minimizing maintenance costs and failures.
Want to learn more? Get in touch with us and we discuss your use-case individually.
Built to Protect — 3 Reasons Data Center Operators Trust GERB Vibration Control Solutions:
- Enhanced Safety: Mitigate risks from earthquakes and operational vibrations with globally certified vibration isolation technologies.
- Improved Operational Comfort: Reduce noise and structural transmission from rotating or unbalanced equipment – creating better working environments and reducing disturbances.
- Extend Lifespan & Reduce Downtime: Protect infrastructure from micro-damage, mechanical wear, and fatigue – minimizing maintenance costs and failures.
Want to learn more? Get in touch with us and we discuss your use-case individually.
GERB Applications for Optimized Vibration Control in Data Center
Urban data centers present a unique chance to implement sustainable heat recovery solutions, effectively turning waste heat into valuable energy and creating a strong synergy between technology and environmental goals. Our vibration control systems are essential to these projects, as they help reduce noise emissions and enhance operational efficiency by ensuring stable and reliable performance. For more information on our commitment to sustainability, please see our ESG principles.
Our systems are perfectly suited to the modular construction of data centers. Designed for targeted application where needed most, they provide planners with maximum flexibility to build and scale infrastructures efficiently across multiple sites. Engineered specifically for modular setups, GERB components help optimize both performance and adaptability.
Maximize uptime with proven seismic protection: The Base Control System (BCS) is engineered for critical infrastructure like data centers, where downtime is not an option. It combines high-performance helical steel springs with advanced Viscodamper® technology, forming a 3-dimensional damping system strategically positioned beneath the structure. This tailored solution delivers superior seismic protection, minimizing structural stress and vibration during earthquakes. The result: resilient buildings and uninterrupted operations, even in high-risk seismic zones.
Pipeworks within the data centre can be subject to machine induced vibrations and cause fatigue damage. Pipe hangers can avoid the fatigue loads significantly and reduce maintenance costs for ensuring uninterrupted operations.
Protect your data center from unwanted vibration and mechanical stress with our proven elastic support systems. Using compact spring elements, HVAC equipment and server racks can be easily isolated—even with retrofits. Reduce noise and vibration from rotating equipment like pumps and compressors and shield sensitive server infrastructure from external impacts and structure-borne noise.
In high-performance data centers, cooling lines are critical infrastructure—but they’re vulnerable to to external vibration, seismic loading pulsation and thermal displacements. Our pipework dampers offer a proven solution to reduce stress on pipes, joints, and connected equipment. Prevent fatigue, leakage, and premature wear in sensitive pipe systems and improve long-term reliability and uptime of your cooling infrastructure.
Rotating and pulsating equipment like compressors, heat pumps, and heat exchangers are essential to your data center’s cooling performance—but they generate vibration that can travel through the building, affecting sensitive areas and neighboring environments. With integrating GERB elastic support systems you can isolate vibrations at the source and reduce structure-borne noise to protect your building structure and adjacent systems from mechanical stress.
In sensitive zones like control rooms, network operations centers, or electrical switchgear rooms, even minor vibrations can disrupt performance, monitoring, or long-term reliability. GERB’s floating floor systems provide a proven solution to isolate entire room structures from building-borne and environmental vibrations. With an integrated floating floor you create vibration-free zones to protect personnel, monitoring equipments and electronics. Ideal for control rooms, UPS spaces, lab areas, and secure zones.
For data centers requiring the highest level of resilience, full structural isolation using GERB spring elements offers an unparalleled solution. As a single support element type, the 3D isolation system delivers complete protection—seismic resilience, source isolation to prevent equipment vibrations from affecting neighbors, and recipient isolation to shield sensitive systems from external disturbances like traffic. By fully decoupling the building with GERB spring elements, data centers gain passive, always-on protection against ground-borne vibration and earthquakes—engineered for long-term operational security.
Seismic protection for emergency diesel generators with GERB Spring-Viscodamper® combination. Emergency diesel generators are the last line of defense in a data center’s power infrastructure—failure is not an option. Yet during earthquakes, these heavy, high-value systems are at risk of damage from sudden ground motion and structural acceleration. GERB’s elastic support systems are engineered to protect generators from seismic impacts and ensure functionality when it’s needed most.
In regions prone to seismic activity, every second of uptime counts. GERB’s advanced seismic protection solutions ensure that data center backup systems remain fully operational, even during the most severe earthquakes. Built for efficiency and engineered for resilience, our technology keeps your critical infrastructure running when it matters most.
The seismic isolation system can be installed either beneath the foundation slab (8) or directly beneath the Diesel Generator Set.
About GERB – Experts in Vibration and Seismic Isolation Since 1908
GERB is a global engineering company specializing in vibration control and seismic protection. For over 100 years, our systems have been used to protect critical infrastructure—from power plants and industrial facilities to high-rise buildings and rail systems.
With a global presence and projects worldwide, GERB designs, manufactures and delivers advanced solutions for the isolation of buildings, machinery, and equipment. Our systems are custom-engineered to meet project-specific needs and have been field-tested under the most demanding conditions. Trusted by leading companies in energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure, GERB brings proven expertise to vibration and seismic protection.
GERB Applications for Optimized Vibration Control in Data Center
Urban data centers present a unique chance to implement sustainable heat recovery solutions, effectively turning waste heat into valuable energy and creating a strong synergy between technology and environmental goals. Our vibration control systems are essential to these projects, as they help reduce noise emissions and enhance operational efficiency by ensuring stable and reliable performance. For more information on our commitment to sustainability, please see our ESG principles.
Our systems are perfectly suited to the modular construction of data centers. Designed for targeted application where needed most, they provide planners with maximum flexibility to build and scale infrastructures efficiently across multiple sites. Engineered specifically for modular setups, GERB components help optimize both performance and adaptability.
Maximize uptime with proven seismic protection: The Base Control System (BCS) is engineered for critical infrastructure like data centers, where downtime is not an option. It combines high-performance helical steel springs with advanced Viscodamper® technology, forming a 3-dimensional damping system strategically positioned beneath the structure. This tailored solution delivers superior seismic protection, minimizing structural stress and vibration during earthquakes. The result: resilient buildings and uninterrupted operations, even in high-risk seismic zones.
Pipeworks within the data centre can be subject to machine induced vibrations and cause fatigue damage. Pipe hangers can avoid the fatigue loads significantly and reduce maintenance costs for ensuring uninterrupted operations.
Pipeworks within the data centre can be subject to machine induced vibrations and cause fatigue damage. Pipe hangers can avoid the fatigue loads significantly and reduce maintenance costs for ensuring uninterrupted operations.
In high-performance data centers, cooling lines are critical infrastructure—but they’re vulnerable to to external vibration, seismic loading pulsation and thermal displacements. Our pipework dampers offer a proven solution to reduce stress on pipes, joints, and connected equipment. Prevent fatigue, leakage, and premature wear in sensitive pipe systems and improve long-term reliability and uptime of your cooling infrastructure.
Rotating and pulsating equipment like compressors, heat pumps, and heat exchangers are essential to your data center’s cooling performance—but they generate vibration that can travel through the building, affecting sensitive areas and neighboring environments. With integrating GERB elastic support systems you can isolate vibrations at the source and reduce structure-borne noise to protect your building structure and adjacent systems from mechanical stress.
In sensitive zones like control rooms, network operations centers, or electrical switchgear rooms, even minor vibrations can disrupt performance, monitoring, or long-term reliability. GERB’s floating floor systems provide a proven solution to isolate entire room structures from building-borne and environmental vibrations. With an integrated floating floor you create vibration-free zones to protect personnel, monitoring equipments and electronics. Ideal for control rooms, UPS spaces, lab areas, and secure zones.
For data centers requiring the highest level of resilience, full structural isolation using GERB spring elements offers an unparalleled solution. As a single support element type, the 3D isolation system delivers complete protection—seismic resilience, source isolation to prevent equipment vibrations from affecting neighbors, and recipient isolation to shield sensitive systems from external disturbances like traffic. By fully decoupling the building with GERB spring elements, data centers gain passive, always-on protection against ground-borne vibration and earthquakes—engineered for long-term operational security.
Seismic protection for emergency diesel generators with GERB Spring-Viscodamper® combination. Emergency diesel generators are the last line of defense in a data center’s power infrastructure—failure is not an option. Yet during earthquakes, these heavy, high-value systems are at risk of damage from sudden ground motion and structural acceleration. GERB’s elastic support systems are engineered to protect generators from seismic impacts and ensure functionality when it’s needed most.
In regions prone to seismic activity, every second of uptime counts. GERB’s advanced seismic protection solutions ensure that data center backup systems remain fully operational, even during the most severe earthquakes. Built for efficiency and engineered for resilience, our technology keeps your critical infrastructure running when it matters most.
The seismic isolation system can be installed either beneath the foundation slab (8) or directly beneath the Diesel Generator Set.
About GERB – Experts in Vibration and Seismic Isolation Since 1908
GERB is a global engineering company specializing in vibration control and seismic protection. For over 100 years, our systems have been used to protect critical infrastructure—from power plants and industrial facilities to high-rise buildings and rail systems.
With a global presence and projects worldwide, GERB designs, manufactures and delivers advanced solutions for the isolation of buildings, machinery, and equipment. Our systems are custom-engineered to meet project-specific needs and have been field-tested under the most demanding conditions. Trusted by leading companies in energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure, GERB brings proven expertise to vibration and seismic protection.
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You need further information on this topic?
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One of our project engineers will get back to you shortly.
Get in touch
You need further information on this topic?
Please do not hesitate to contact us with your individual question.
One of our project engineers will get back to you shortly.