Available to purchase at.Although it is a long-established sector, bringing together experts from multiple leading players in the data centre world was experimental.

It’s due to be completed later this year, with commissioning taking until 2023.We are continuing to work on the project as Design Guardian.. A complete mechanical and electrical engineering solution.

Over the years, design and build of complex facilities has become piecemeal.Contracts are split up between designers and contractors, and everyone tries to minimise or pass on risk.The trouble with this is that it destroys value for the client – it removes the big picture view, which is really important, especially on highly complex and intricate jobs like laboratories or some of the others I’ve described here.

Some of the time, we find ourselves having to fix work that has been poorly conceived and carried out because of this way of working.Systems that simply don’t work.

We want to take on entire contracts in order to be able to deliver the complete solution that is best for our clients.

We will always be able to deliver the most value when we are engaged at the start of a project.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.We now hear people talking about putting tracking devices onto construction workers to record and measure their movements to increase efficiency, or to assess their wellbeing for health and safety purposes – but might these devices also be used to assess work rates and monitor time spent taking a toilet break?.

As an industry, we should also be conscious of how technology moves through society, and the consequences of that.We’ve seen the recent studies showing how Twitter’s face-crop algorithm prioritises white faces and women;.

1. or the issues in 2020 with the UK government’s algorithm for predicting exam results during COVID, which marked down students from disadvantaged areas and backgrounds.. 2.We’re not suggesting that either of these was deliberate, but what we are saying is that we need to be super-vigilant.