Our Policy

We believe it’s important to develop a holistic strategy and management approach to data centres. This enables our clients to keep on track with reliability, utilisation, economic and environmental goals. Ineffective communication between the disciplines working in the data centre is a major cause of inefficiency – as is capacity and reliability issues.

We encourage our clients to establish an approval board comprising representatives from all disciplines – software, IT and M&E – to ensure the impacts of any significant decision have been properly understood.

An example of this could include the definition of standard equipment lists by considering the M&E designs of different types of hardware.

The inefficiency of over-design

One of the main sources of inefficiency in data centres is the over-designing of space, power or cooling, and the facilities being run at a fraction of their capacity.

Complete design – as opposed to modular design of facilities – represents a significant and often unnecessary capital expenditure. As data centre resilience levels increase, the inefficiencies of fixed overheads increase, which is compounded by poor utilisation.

We work to eliminate unnecessary design, so our clients achieve their environmental targets and reduce costs.