Design Services
Design work I can undertake for you is:
- Site selection – sourcing, short listing and analysis of suitable sites to build data centres.
- Design management – Management of data centre design and construction projects.
- Design reviews – Analysis of new or existing data centre designs to ensure they are to the client’s specification.
Projects
Some of the projects I have undertaken areā¦
Data centre operator – Site selection – 12 African countries
Project type | Site Selection for more than 20 sites across 12 African countries |
Project description | Working with the operator, I procured and managed design teams to undertake a site selection process for the data centre operator |
My role | Project Director of the design team |
Key outcomes | Short list of more than 10 sites, 3 have reached financial close. |
Data centre operator – Colocation new build – Johannesburg, South Africa
Project type | New build On existing campus, including headquarter and customer office |
Project description | 4 x 1,500m2 data halls (2 x colocation, 2 x hyperscale) Day 1 IT capacity 8MW Final day IT capacity of 12MW |
My role | Project Director of the design team |
Key outcomes | Data centre operator’s first build >10MW, this became their standard design |
South African bank – Data centre expansion – Johannesburg, South Africa
Project type | Refurbishment and expansion of the Bank’s production site. |
Project description | 2 x 1,200m2 data halls Day 1 IT capacity of 4MW Final day IT capacity of 6MW |
My role | Project director of the design team |
Key outcomes | Tier IV design on a constrained site |
Hyperscaler- New build – Cape Town, South Africa
Project type | New build Greenfield site Day 1 of this hyperscale campus |
Project description | 1 x 1,100m2 data halls Day 1 IT capacity 7.5MW Final day IT capacity of +20MW |
My role | Project Director of the design team |
Key outcomes | Working with the main contractor as their MEP engineer to guide the development of their construction deliverables, interface with the client and develop their commissioning process and strategy |
Data centre operator – Modular new build – Mombasa, Kenya
Project type | New build Fitout of new data hall in existing data centre |
Project description | Day 1 – 300m2 of data halls Final day – IT capacity of .5MW |
My role | Project Director of the design team |
Key outcomes | Due diligence on the site Design review of the suppliers solution Supervision of the installation |