What it takes to deliver a data centre

  • Sunday, 3rd May 2026 Posted 2 hours ago in by Phil Alsop
Katie Coulson, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Skanska Advanced Technology, discusses the many factors which need to be considered when delivering a data centre design and build, including the weather, available labour, power and water. Katie goes on to explain how modular, repeatable design and construction techniques and the harnessing of AI are helping to address the challenges of delivering new facilities as quickly as possible for the current AI boom.
Ryan Parker, Phononic's President & COO, discusses the data centre thermal management challenge,...
Matt Wilkins, Global Director of Design and Engineering at Colt DCS, explains that data centre...
Laura Allwood, now a fully qualified Project Manager at Arcadis, outlines her journey from...
Paul Christensen, Macquarie Data Centres General Manager, discusses the company’s 47MW IC3 Super...
Phil Cullerton, VP Services EMEA at Vertiv, explains why services will define the future of the...
Aaron Velardi, head of North American development at Ramtech North America, explains that, as data...
Mary-Ann Clarke, AECOM’s Director of Data Centre Delivery, believes that developers, utilities,...
Ben Sooter, Director of Agentic AI Initiatives & Distributed AI Architecture at EPRI, and Bal...