ITE have constructed a number of data centres, some of which can be viewed in the case studies.

ITE Projects have over 20 years’ experience in designing and building data centres and computer rooms.

We use our own IET certified electricians, FGas registered mechanical technician and project management and design team to ensure a high standard of installation.

ITE have constructed data centres in a number of different situations. These may include warehouse and light industrial units offering a relatively straight forward conversion to an efficient data centre due to the open nature of such buildings. These can also offer greater space for hosting and allow ample space for mechanical plant to run at optimal efficiency.

We have also constructed a steel mezzanine structure in a number of sites to effectively double the usable space of the facility.

Such builds include Rapidswitch and Iomart in Maidenhead, Orange Business Services in North London and Equinix in Heathrow and Dusseldorf.

Office areas are commonly converted into a company computer room or data centre but these tend to have more constraints on space, room height and plant location and are subject to existing wall layouts. However, ITE have built numerous data centres in these situations, the majority being in the London Docklands area. These builds typically require modification of the internal room layout, the inclusion of additional riser space for mechanical and electrical services, steelwork reinforcement for heavy items of plant and a provision for external plant.

This type of build has included Telecity/Redbus, Docklands Data Centres and Orange Business Services in London Docklands, Viasat Satellite Communications in West London, Cemex in Staines and Mothercare in West London.

Our aim, when designing a data centre is to avoid any single point of failure. This is achieved with multiple feeds to computer racks and built-in redundancy in the overall design. A basic n+1 system will ensure that any malfunction of a single piece of equipment will not cause detrimental effects to the running of the data or e-commerce site.