Consult · Design · Build · Operate
We plan, design, build and run the halls your core systems live in — for banks, telcos, ministries and hospitals that cannot schedule an outage. And we run the ICT layer on top. Tell us the load and the tier you need; a written scope follows in two working days.
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Rack row elevation, 42U
6 cabinets · A/B feed · L1 survey
Live from the practice
One of these is queried from the current engagement board. Two are commitments we make. The fourth belongs to the standard, not to us — and its caption says so.
A
Critical load under design or operation
B
6phases
6 / 6
Lifecycle phases covered, feasibility to modernisation
C
2days
2 / 2
Working days from your brief to a written scope
D
99.982%
The availability a Tier III topology is designed for — the standard's figure, not ours
The lifecycle
A facility has an order of operations, so this list is numbered. Most clients join at 01, with nothing but a load estimate and a site, or at 05, when a hall already exists and is being run harder than it was designed for.
Claims and status
In this trade "Tier III" can mean three different things: independently certified, designed to the standard but never assessed, or simply claimed. Buyers get caught by the gap. So here is every standard we work to, with its status against our own name — and how you can check it without taking our word.
What the three states mean
Uptime Institute Tier III
Concurrently maintainable power and cooling topology.
How to check
No certificate issued against our name yet. Ask which client projects hold TCDD, TCCF or TCOS, then look the facility up in Uptime's public certification directory.
ANSI/TIA-942 Rated-3
Telecommunications infrastructure and facility rating.
How to check
We design to Rated-3. Ask for the design documents and have your own reviewer check them against the standard.
ANSI/BICSI-002
Data centre design and implementation best practice.
How to check
Ask which of our engineers hold current BICSI credentials, and their numbers.
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security management, ours and the systems we hand over.
How to check
Not certified as an organisation. Ask for our security control statement and check it against your own policy.
ISO 9001
Quality management across design and delivery.
How to check
Ask for our quality plan and the last three project audit records.
ISO 14001
Environmental management, energy and water reporting.
How to check
Ask for measured PUE and WUE from a facility we operate, not a design figure.
A design certificate is not a build certificate, and a build certificate is not an operations certificate. Ask which one, at which stage, issued when.
Fees and scope
Consultancy is quoted per phase — a fixed fee where the scope can be defined, a rate where it genuinely cannot. This is the line we draw, written down here rather than discovered at invoice stage.
All of it is written into the scope before you sign. Anything that moves from the right column to the left is a variation, and it is priced in writing before work starts.
Getting started
01
Forty-five minutes, on a call or walking the room. Bring your single-line diagram if you have one, and your worst-case load. If you have neither, that is what phase 01 is for.
02
Two working days. You get a scope of work, a programme with dates, a fee, and the assumptions we made — written down, so you can hand it to procurement.
03
Nothing is billed until the scope is signed. If the answer is that you do not need us yet, we will say so and tell you what to do instead.
ICT solutions
The same team that specifies your power path specifies the network riding on it, so both are designed against one set of assumptions instead of two.
Who we build for
Each of these is hard for a different reason. The tag is the constraint that shapes the design.
Regulated
Regulator-mandated recovery times and an audit trail for every change.
Always on
Carrier-neutral meet-me rooms, DC power plant, and no maintenance window.
Sovereign
Data residency, sovereign hosting, and procurement that reads every line.
Life safety
Clinical systems that fail to patient safety, not to a service credit.
High density
High-density GPU clusters arriving faster than the hall was designed for.
Edge sites
Edge rooms on the factory floor: dust, vibration and a seasonal peak.
What we actually specify
Before you ask
A scope of work, a programme with dates, a fee, and a written list of the assumptions we made to arrive at them. Two working days after the call. You can hand it straight to procurement, and if you decide against us you keep it.
Yes, and most clients do. Design without build is common, and so is commissioning a facility somebody else designed. The one combination we push back on is commissioning our own design without an independent witness — you should have someone else's eyes on that.
Read the claims and status section on the front page — every standard we work to is listed with its current status against our name and how you can check it yourself. Short version: ask for a certificate number and look it up in the certifying body's public directory. That is true of us and of everyone else bidding.
Phase 06, modernise. The first job is measuring what the hall can actually take, because the binding constraint is rarely where people assume — it is often the cooling return path or the busway, not the utility feed. That assessment takes about three weeks and tells you whether an upgrade beats building elsewhere.
Both, and that is the point. Network, compute, storage, security and managed operations are designed against the same load model and the same failure scenarios as the power and cooling. Two separate consultants means two sets of assumptions and a gap between them that nobody owns.
Drawings, as-builts, calculations, test results, runbooks and training records — in editable formats, not locked PDFs. You should be able to replace us with another firm without re-buying the documentation.
Next step
Two working days, written down, and no fee until you sign it.
Or write to us directly hello@nextgendc.example
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