Rigorous interrogation of the design at each stage helped ensure construction and commissioning was completed on budget and within a very tight schedule: 15 months from groundbreaking to handover of the fully finished facility..
How to deal with fragmentation across Europe in regulations/standards.How to deliver value across the board within service level agreements..
Plenty for the group to discuss and action when it meets again later this year..Learn more about our approach to data centre design.A shift in perspective: From bespoke buildings to flexible platforms.Data centres have long been treated as one-off, large-scale engineering projects.
However, Lincoln emphasises that Edged’s approach differs, likening these facilities to repeated products that can be continually refined.'From day one at Edged, my role as Director of Design is really trying to develop our language - call it our ‘kit of parts’ - that is agnostic to site, that can address as much of the range of constraints a site can provide, and that allows us to have repeatable components we can manage, condition, and learn from as we deploy them in projects and see the site adaptation that occurs when we do that.'.
By viewing each data centre as part of a coherent system, Edged can design and build with greater efficiency.
Rather than starting from scratch for every project, the team focuses on standardising essential components, creating a ‘platform’ that allows for repeated deployments - each time with lessons learnt fed back into the model.. Why Industrialised Construction makes sense.How do we work with industry, academia and the business community to deliver results?.
For all the terrible destruction COVID-19 has caused, perhaps the silver lining has been its role as a catalyst for a more rapid pace of change.The government messaging is Build Back Better, incorporating a greener and faster element.
We’re recognising the need for better outcomes, supporting things like levelling up the economy, delivering greater social value and driving a path to net-zero carbon emissions.It’s an encouraging shift, because we won’t achieve these goals simply by taking the lowest price, transferring risks down the supply chain, and using arcane procurement practices.