Sector · data centre and critical facilities
Where the services are the project.
Comms rooms, edge facilities, equipment rooms and critical services works, and a clear statement of where our current capability starts and stops.
Honest scope
A target sector, described as one.
Data centres are a sector JCGAU is building towards, not one in which the company holds a completed project record. What we bring today is comprehensive fitout, services coordination and commissioning discipline, which is directly applicable to comms rooms, edge and equipment facilities, and to the building works around critical infrastructure. Hyperscale construction is not within our current capacity and we would tell you so at the first conversation rather than at the tender interview.
We would rather set that out plainly on the page than have a buyer discover it during due diligence. It is also the honest reading of what a $20 million single-contract capacity means in a sector where individual facilities run to far more than that.
The constraint
In a critical facility the building is the smallest part of the cost.
Power, cooling, redundancy and the commissioning that proves them are the project. The structure is what holds them up.
A comms room or edge facility is a services problem with a building wrapped around it. The power path from the supply through switchgear, uninterruptible supply and distribution has to be designed for a redundancy topology, and the cooling has to be designed for a heat density that no ordinary commercial space produces.
Every one of those systems has to be proved to work, and proved to keep working when a component is taken out. That proof is a staged process that runs from the factory to a live load test, and it belongs in the programme as a work package with its own duration.
Redundancy
What you are buying when you buy resilience.
Redundancy is not a rating you select. It is a decision about how much of the system can be lost, or taken out for maintenance, while the load keeps running.
The three arrangements below cover most of what a small technical facility will consider. What separates them is not the number of components but whether the path is shared. A spare unit on a common board protects against a component failure and not against a board failure, which is the distinction that decides whether the room can be maintained without a shutdown.
Where we add value now
The work we can genuinely do today.
Comms rooms and equipment rooms
Within commercial and industrial buildings. High-density cooling, dedicated power, containment, fire suppression interfaces and access control. A common requirement in every workplace and industrial project we deliver.
Edge and small technical facilities
Where the scale sits inside our capacity and the discipline required is services coordination and commissioning rather than hyperscale construction management.
Shell, base build and enabling works
Slab, structure, envelope, hardstand and site services around critical infrastructure, coordinated to a specialist fitout contractor’s requirements.
Upgrades in operating facilities
Works alongside live equipment, where isolation planning, permit discipline and communication with the operations team are the whole job.
Client-side support
Where a client is procuring a specialist and wants builder-grade estimating, buildability and programme interrogation on their side of the table.
A critical facility is not finished when it is built. It is finished when it has been proved.
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Questions
Have you built a data centre?
Not under the JCGAU entity. We say so plainly. What we do hold is comprehensive fitout and services coordination capability that applies directly to comms rooms, equipment rooms and edge facilities, and we are open about the boundary.
Would you tender for a hyperscale facility?
No. It sits outside our current capacity, and taking it on would not serve you.
Can you build the base building for a specialist fitout contractor?
Yes. Shell, structure, envelope and site services coordinated to their requirements is work we are well suited to.
Can you build a comms room inside our office project?
Yes, and it is a normal inclusion in the workplace projects we deliver.
Ask us where the boundary is.
We will tell you which parts of a critical facilities project we are the right builder for, and which parts we are not.
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Where to go next.
- Industrial constructionWarehouses, distribution and production facilities, and the fitout inside them.
- Laboratories and research facilitiesContainment, ventilation and equipment loads, where the services are the project.
- Commercial constructionOffices, retail, hospitality and institutional work, from fitout to new build.
- Design and constructOne contract carrying both the design and the price.