DCI DATA CENTRES
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Rewriting the delivery model Where a traditional data centre design phase might span five to six months, today’ s market conditions demand unprecedented speed.
“ To achieve speed to market and realise our commitment to our customers, we need to compress this even further,” Hatem says.
To achieve this without compromising quality, DCI abandoned linear workflows. Instead, Hatem’ s team advances the design to a critical baseline, which allows bringing contractors onto the site to commence early works while the fine details of the engineering are finalised alongside construction.
“ There’ s a lot of pressure and it requires significant teamwork,” Hatem admits.“ It takes and huge number of people to get it right because, ultimately, if you don’ t, something will go wrong when in operation. You must ensure the facility can run almost 100 % of the time.”
To maintain this standard under compressed timelines, DCI relies on an expert internal team working alongside specialised partners.
“ At DCI we have a strong technical team that work hand in hand with our design partners to achieve the outcomes we need,” Hatem says.
The ecosystem plays a vital role in accelerating delivery.
“ We bring our partners very early to undertake the most significant engineering work upfront,” Hatem explains.“ The conventional approach in the past was linear: you finish the design, you go to market, you procure and then
you build. That doesn’ t work in a data centre environment. We have to be proactive in engaging the market while the design is being developed. This means early engagement of our wider ecosystem.”
By involving key supply chain vendors from inception, DCI reshaped how spatial constraints are managed.
“ Every large piece of equipment becomes a spatial constraint” Hatem says.“ These pieces of equipment are essential and dictate how the building is designed, so we’ ve brought our partners into the design process very early, probably earlier than we normally do.
“ We don’ t treat them as vendors who just respond to our specification, they’ ve been working hand in hand with our engineering team, and that’ s changed what is possible. So, rather than designing a space based on a data sheet and hoping for the best, we brought in the experts to work with us on solutions you won’ t find in a catalogue.”
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