Corsham Data Centre Upgrades
Client: Ark Data Centres
Ark Data Centres - Designing and operating data centres which empower businesses to work from anywhere in the world.
Location:
Corsham, Wiltshire
Duration
104 weeks
Contract value
£6.0M
Constructed
2022 to October 2023
The brief:
Sweet Projects have partnered with the ARK Data Centre construction team for over 50 projects. These projects range from fitting replacement upgraded lifts into existing data centre buildings, electric vehicle charging points, asbestos removal and demolition, street lighting, and enhanced CPNI secure room wrapping. The team has completed all these projects in a highly secure live data centre environment, which has been both rewarding and logistically challenging.
Sweets Projects recently completed the HV substation, switch room, and backup generator farm. These new facilities were designed with future growth in mind, specifically with the upcoming P5 project. The P5 project is scheduled to begin construction in Q1 of 2025. We are pleased to report that both the switch room and generator farm were finished on time and within budget.
Key challenges:
- Working alongside existing Data Centres users, without causing disruption and disturbance.
- Enhanced security, for entry into site for work and delivery.
The solution:
- Careful logistical planning, short term programming, sharing the challenge with a can-do attitude.
- Daily briefings with a flexible approach to overcome issues that arise.
- Appointed person to ensure all attending staff, trades and deliveries are booked in correctly for smooth operations through security.
As a trusted and key partner of Ark Data Centres, Sweet Projects go above and beyond in challenging the status quo and enabling us and our clients to push the boundaries of the possible in the delivery of our projects, keeping us at the forefront of Data Centre provision in the UK.
- Andy Garvin - Chief Operating Officer, Ark Data Centres
