These ideas are part of leadership but I believe leadership needs to go further than influence.

How to find outlets for waste heat.How to deal with fragmentation across Europe in regulations/standards.

How to deliver value across the board within service level agreements..Plenty for the group to discuss and action when it meets again later this year..Learn more about our approach to data centre design.A shift in perspective: From bespoke buildings to flexible platforms.

Data centres have long been treated as one-off, large-scale engineering projects.However, Lincoln emphasises that Edged’s approach differs, likening these facilities to repeated products that can be continually refined.

'From day one at Edged, my role as Director of Design is really trying to develop our language - call it our ‘kit of parts’ - that is agnostic to site, that can address as much of the range of constraints a site can provide, and that allows us to have repeatable components we can manage, condition, and learn from as we deploy them in projects and see the site adaptation that occurs when we do that.'.

By viewing each data centre as part of a coherent system, Edged can design and build with greater efficiency.A lot of projects were cancelled, including highway schemes and school building programmes.

The aim was fiscal consolidation.When spending plans came out, much of the narrative was focused on efficiency.

There was the first iteration of the National Infrastructure Plan, the Government Construction Strategy and the BIM mandate that followed in 2011.However, as we’ve progressed, that focus is shifting.