C A S E S T U D Y witnessed it ourselves through increasing client demand for delivery capability.
As a business with a track-record of delivering large-scale projects, we feel well positioned to succeed in this sector. Naturally, that has driven us to expand our capability within the data centre market.
What does this strategic expansion mean for Winvic and how will it shape your priorities over the next few years?
It’ s quite a significant milestone. We have been exploring other market opportunities where we feel our capabilities, experience and overall offering can be applied to other sectors but data centres was our top priority.
We have established a fourth sector in the business to supplement the other three: industrial and logistics; the multi-room sector; and the civils and infrastructure sector.
In the coming years, our priority is to establish a specialist core leadership team dedicated to data centre delivery. This includes strengthening our technical teams, improving our commissioning expertise and aligning our supply chain to meet required delivery standards.
Why are data centres critical components to modern-day growth and how does this influence the expectations placed on contractors delivering them?
Data centres are critical infrastructure, so it’ s essential they’ re delivered on time. The high-performing infrastructure required means dependency grows and the expectation on contractors increases.
Clients expect absolute reliability, as well as cost and programme certainty and there’ s very little tolerance for delays. As a contractor we need to align ourselves with the level of precision, quality assurance and technical understanding required from day one. The standard is significantly higher than in traditional construction projects and differs to the types of projects we are used to – one of the most obvious differences being MEP coordination and installation.
How have the demands of the data centre sector reshaped traditional construction practices and how is Winvic adapting to those evolving requirements?
The data centre demands a level of coordination and integration far beyond typical builders. The MEP requirements dominate the programme and commissioning becomes a major work stream. The digital QA processes are critical. There’ s no room for rework or ambiguity with these facilities.
We are adapting by strengthening specialist data centre teams, embedding commissioning requirements earlier in the design phase and integrating our supply chain into this process much earlier, to ensure speed and certainty –
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