Data Centers
The room that everything else depends on. We design, build, and care for the facilities that keep mission-critical systems running — quietly, efficiently, and without surprises.
A data center is the most unforgiving piece of infrastructure a business owns: it is expensive to build, painful to change, and catastrophic to get wrong. We treat it that way. Every engagement starts with the load you actually have and the growth you can credibly forecast, not a vendor's preferred footprint.
We work across the full lifecycle — siting and design for greenfield builds, capacity and resilience refresh for brownfield estates, and disciplined consolidation when you have more facility than you need. Our designs are commissioned and documented so the team that operates them inherits clarity, not folklore.
Load is no longer uniform across the floor. Sixty-kilowatt training racks now sit a row away from four-kilowatt legacy cabinets, and the day-one cooling design has to plan for tomorrow's mix. We model thermal density and power topology together rather than treating them as separate disciplines, and we test our designs against credible failure modes before any concrete is poured.
What gets handed over matters more than what gets built. Every facility we deliver comes with commissioning records, single-line diagrams that match the as-built, runbooks for routine maintenance and for the bad day, and a six-month support window so the team that takes the keys is never alone with a question they cannot answer.
What we deliver
Greenfield & brownfield builds
Site selection, electrical and mechanical design, structured cabling, and commissioning to Tier-III standards — or a clear-eyed refresh of what you already run.
Power, cooling & redundancy
Right-sized power and cooling with the redundancy your risk profile justifies, modelled for both day-one load and credible growth.
Migration & decommissioning
Sequenced moves and clean decommissioning, with chain-of-custody for assets and zero-drama cutovers.
Outcomes
- Facilities commissioned and documented for the team that operates them
- Capacity matched to real load, not vendor defaults
- Resilience you can prove, not just claim
How we engage
Most of our data-center engagements begin with a two-week assessment: floor walk, electrical and mechanical audit, capacity model against the next eighteen months. The deliverable is a written report with options and trade-offs, not a sales pitch.
From there we either build, refresh, or consolidate — but always in defined phases with measurable exit criteria. No phase begins without the prior one signed off, and no design proceeds without the people who will operate it in the room.
Engagements typically run from six weeks for a focused refresh to eighteen months for a greenfield build with phased commissioning. We stay through commissioning and three months beyond — longer if you would like us to.
Frequently asked
Do you favour any particular Tier?
We design for the Tier the business case justifies, which is more often Tier-III than Tier-IV. The cost curve from III to IV is steep, and many estates would gain more resilience from a second well-run site than from a single hardened one.
Can you work alongside our incumbent integrator?
Yes, and we often do. We can sit on your side of the table as architect or owner's engineer while the integrator delivers, or we can deliver directly. The arrangement should serve the project, not the org chart.
Colocation or build — how do you decide?
We model both honestly. For some workloads colocation removes years of capital and operational drag; for others — typically those with high power density, regulatory weight, or specific latency needs — the build justifies itself. The financial model is part of the deliverable, not an afterthought.
Begin a conversation → about data centers, or speak with a senior engineer about where it fits your wider estate.