We’re there from the very beginning
Site Selection
Working with your team and starting at the beginning of the journey, often before a site has been selected, we focus on the riskier front-end process. This can include site identification, feasibility and due diligence, helping you shape the solution for speed to market. We help steer the ship and provide / coordinate the most experienced expertise and resource right through to project completion and ready for service. In other words, we take care of the heavy lifting, allowing you to focus on your business.
Development Management Process
We can focus on just parts of the development process where you need us most, such site selection, power, network connectivity, planning and permits, environmental regulations etc. Or you may want to retain us to complete the powered shell and core. Either way we can lighten the load and mitigate risk.
Financial and Budget Management
From the outset of a development, we work with owners and investors to create development appraisals using specialist software such as Argus. For data centres there are various cost metrics under focus and ultimately the cost per MW-IT. Our objective is to optimise those numbers through teamwork, experience and innovation. We have a team of financial managers and cost managers, including Chartered Quantity Surveyors for MEP engineering or civils/CSA cost management and in-house Chartered Accountants who hold overall responsibility for development budgets. We are adept at working with design teams and investors to ensure that development budgets are managed professionally, and that value can be demonstrated at all stages.
Programme Management
Our Directors devise and take ownership of all development programmes as they are core to what we do. Our wider project team coordinate the programme management process, construction programming and managing specific critical milestones.
Unlocking Development Potential with Site Due Diligence
As part of our development service we manage the design process. This is something that sineQN has always done, often with very large design teams on major data centre projects.
Good design management starts at the outset with team selection. Key experience across the design disciplines must be present and committed within the team. From engineering (eg mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, geotechnical, environmental, acoustic, fire, aerodynamic, materials) to architecture and technology, the design team must be streamlined and working to common objectives. Effective design management ensures that nothing is getting designed in isolation and that challenges in one area of design can be alleviated by flexibility in another.
Change is a constant in a sector where rapid advances in technology are changing the way data centres are developed. Incorporating change into a live design process must be managed effectively so that optimum outcomes can be achieved.
Ultimately, as well as meeting strict resilience and redundancy requirements data centres must meet owner operating objectives, while being secure, safe and future proofed. sineQN’s design management process ensures this outcome.
ASSESMENT ELEMENTS
- Market assessment (history, trends, size, growth forecasts)
- Routes for power to the site (subterranean & road / bridge crossing requirements)
- Potential for undergrounding of overhead power lines, if applicable
- Fibre network potential and diversity
- Geotechnical profile
- Contamination
- Biodiversity
- Archaeological / historical interest
- Town planning site allocation, local plan requirements, local authority guidance
- Security (physical security risk assessment & mitigation solutions)