Lead architecture
Facility design intent as an AI system — power, cooling, network, monitoring and operations coordinated into one validated design, with the OEM specifications and the engineer of record reconciled rather than assumed.
AI data centers
The floor, the power, the cooling — and everything on it.
AI hardware has moved faster than the buildings meant to hold it. A single modern cabinet can draw what a street of houses draws, and it will throttle or trip within seconds of losing flow. We design for that reality, manage the build, commission it, run it with AIDA ECOS™ — and we supply the equipment that makes it live.
Four things, not one.
Most providers hand off at a boundary. We carry the design intent across all four, which is why the thing that gets built is the thing that was drawn.
Program and site management
Integrated schedule, risk register, change control and day‑to‑day site direction alongside the contractor of record — sequencing, quality and readiness, with inspection and acceptance on the owner's behalf.
Commission and run
Commissioning through integrated systems test, then steady‑state operation on {AIDA}: redundancy verified continuously, efficiency reported to billing standard, incidents escalated on a defined path.
We sell it too
Racks, power distribution, UPS and storage, chillers and CDUs, switchgear, structured cabling, network, cameras and access control — procured, delivered and installed. See the categories →
Telemetry, one second at a time.
From the utility service to the cabinet manifold, every meaningful point is read, checked against its design envelope and recorded. That is what turns a Tier III claim into a Tier III demonstration — and what makes a billing‑grade efficiency figure defensible when a tenant asks how it was derived.
- Power path monitored from the service entrance through switchgear, UPS and busway to each metered tap‑off
- Thermal and airflow per cabinet in the air halls; flow, differential pressure and supply/return per cabinet in the liquid halls
- Redundancy verified continuously rather than assumed between maintenance windows
- Leak zones, chemistry and make‑up water tracked as a single water story, not three separate reports
The engineering, subject by subject.
Power behaves differently under AI load.
Synchronised training jobs swing facility demand in milliseconds. Utility service, generation, UPS topology and distribution all have to be engineered for that profile — and then verified continuously, because a design that was right on paper drifts in service.
- Utility capacity, service agreements and energisation sequencing — the real gate on any aggressive schedule
- Step‑load and transient management, including energy storage and power smoothing at rack or facility level
- Generation sizing, fuel logistics and air permitting; behind‑the‑meter and bridge power options where the utility timeline will not cooperate
- UPS topology decided explicitly — and cooling always protected, because liquid‑cooled compute trips on thermal in seconds
- High‑amperage busway and metered tap‑offs matched to the OEM power shelves, not to a generic assumption
- Harmonics and power quality: K‑rated transformers and filtering sized for the actual load profile
Air to its limit, liquid beyond it.
High‑density air cooling and direct‑liquid cooling are different disciplines, and a credible facility can state honestly what it sustains in each.
Air‑cooled halls
- Containment strategy — hot/cold aisle, chimney, or rear‑door heat exchange — chosen against the density actually required
- Airflow validated per rack configuration, at site altitude, where fan capacity derates
- Heat rejection redundancy that is genuinely concurrently maintainable
- Power and cooling allocated for network, storage and management racks — the allocation most dense layouts forget
Direct‑liquid halls
- Facility loop designed to the OEM supply and return temperatures, not to a legacy cold‑water assumption
- Clear demarcation at the rack manifold between tenant CDU and provider loop
- Fluid specification owned in writing — glycol, inhibitor, biocide, filtration — with ongoing chemistry testing
- Leak detection at rack, manifold and floor level, with automatic isolation and a named shutdown authority
- N+1 pumping and heat rejection, plus real schedule time for flushing, pressure testing and chemistry balancing
Altitude is not a footnote. Cooling towers, pumps, fans and generators all derate with elevation. On high‑desert sites we design to the derated numbers from the first drawing, and we say so to the tenant.
Cabinets, floors and the route to them.
Modern accelerated cabinets arrive heavy, hot and intolerant of improvisation. The building has to be ready for them physically, not just electrically.
- Rack‑scale accelerated systems in both air‑cooled and direct‑liquid configurations, integrated with the facility loop and busway design
- Floor loading and maximum cabinet weight confirmed against structure — fully populated racks routinely exceed standard ratings
- Delivery route from dock to deployment area surveyed before equipment ships, including door, lift and turning constraints
- Secure receiving, staging and burn‑in space planned as part of the layout rather than found later
- Per‑cabinet telemetry designed in — power, thermal, fluid and node health — so capacity and efficiency reporting are real measurements
Two paths in, and an isolated plane to manage it.
- Physically diverse fiber entrances with a carrier‑neutral or multi‑carrier roster, verified to the entrance rather than to the marketing map
- High‑bandwidth services at 400G and 800G where the workload demands it, with meet‑me room and cross‑connect design
- An out‑of‑band management plane isolated from production — so monitoring stays alive precisely when production does not
- Structured cabling and pathway design built for the next density step, not only for today's
- Tenant fabric handoff defined explicitly, with the demarcation written into the lease and reflected in the monitored points
Physical security that reaches the incident queue.
Cameras that nobody watches are furniture. We integrate surveillance and access into the same operating picture as power and cooling, so a physical event escalates like any other incident.
- Video management and access control designed together, with per‑tenant cage and suite access rules
- Edge video analytics for perimeter, door‑held and tailgating events — routed to the security desk and the tenant, with the clip attached
- 24/7 monitored access with audit‑grade logging suitable for tenant and certification review
- Escalation matrices that name people and timeframes, not just severities
- Controls documentation and evidence packages prepared for SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 scope
It is not finished until it has been proven to fail safely.
Commissioning is where optimistic schedules meet physics. We plan it as real work with real duration, and we test the failure modes rather than the happy path.
- Level 1 through Level 5 commissioning, culminating in integrated systems test under load
- Loop flushing, pressure testing and chemistry balancing scheduled honestly — these take weeks and are routinely missing from compressed plans
- Concurrent maintainability demonstrated for both power and cooling, not asserted in a narrative
- Independent commissioning agent where certification or tenant audit requires that independence — quality acceptance never falls back to the party being inspected
- AIDA ECOS™ present during the integrated test, so the platform is validated against real failure scenarios before tenant equipment arrives
Standards and method
What we design, build and commission againstResiliency is claimed against the recognised classifications — Uptime Institute Tier III, TIA‑942 Rated‑3 and BICSI 002 Availability Class 3 — and demonstrated through concurrent maintainability, not asserted in a narrative. Thermal design follows ASHRAE TC 9.9 for mission‑critical facilities and the OEM specification where it is tighter. Electrical acceptance follows recognised field‑testing practice; fire detection and suppression follow the applicable NFPA codes. Commissioning runs Level 1 through Level 5, closing with an integrated systems test under load.
L1 factoryL2 site acceptanceL3 pre‑functionalL4 functionalL5 integrated systems test
We do not just specify it. We supply it.
This is the part that surprises people: we execute the work, design the solution and support it after implementation — and we also sell the products and services that bring the facility to live status. One accountable party from drawing to energisation.
Utility to cabinet
Switchgear and transformers, UPS and lithium‑ion storage, energy storage for transient smoothing, generation, busway and metered rack power distribution.
Plant to manifold
Chillers and heat rejection, facility CDUs, pumps and hydronics, containment and rear‑door heat exchangers, coolant chemistry programmes and leak detection.
Cabinets and the systems in them
Accelerated compute platforms, cabinets, cages and secure staging, and the in‑rack distribution that feeds them.
Fabric and carriers
Structured cabling and trunks, management‑plane switching, meet‑me room build and carrier coordination.
Cameras and access
Video management, camera estate, access control, fire detection and suppression coordination.
The people, too
Commissioning agents, water treatment programmes, structural and floor‑loading assessment, environmental and air permitting support, and 24/7 remote hands.
We stay vendor‑independent. We hold preferred and alternate selections in every category, chosen for open telemetry, lead‑time realism and regional support — and we will recommend the option that serves the owner, including one we do not supply. Indicative pricing is presented as advisory ranges from the tenant's perspective until the design decisions are actually made.
AIDA ECOS™ on the floor.
A facility is judged on evidence: that it is concurrently maintainable, that efficiency is measured the way the contract says, that an incident was detected and escalated. ECOS produces that evidence continuously instead of assembling it before an audit.
- Per‑rack power, inlet temperature, airflow and pressure with alarms tied to the service envelope
- Per‑rack coolant flow, differential pressure and supply/return temperature at the demarcation, with leak detection integrated
- Continuous verification that generators, UPS, pumps and cooling redundancy are genuinely available
- Revenue‑grade metering with automated efficiency calculation and auditable tenant reporting
- Predictive maintenance on rotating and electrical plant, with work orders raised before failure
- Work‑order, asset and access tracking for remote‑hands operations, with a tenant portal
Tell us what has to work.
An ERP programme with a date that cannot move. A facility that has to energise on schedule. An estate that needs to run itself more accurately than it does today. Start there — we will tell you honestly what it takes.