Data Center Design

The emergence of the hyperscale data center and the pressure to reduce $ per MW to service the rapidly increasing cloud computing, e-commerce, and social media market has led Bryden Wood to pioneer a new approach to data center design and construction.

We have been helping to deliver value-driven data centers for the last 25 years where facilities are designed to optimize the deployment of their servers as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Our innovative, interdisciplinary approach to data center design delivers exceptional results for global co-location and hyperscale data center clients, including:

• 30-40% reduction in capital build cost per KW
• 40% increase in IT yield/sqm.

Our Approach

With an integrated design approach to problems, Bryden Wood brings together the best in engineering, architecture, and digital technologies to transform the client data center design approach.

 

- Enhanced efficiency:

• We work to deliver cost-optimised designs grounded in solid engineering
  principles.

 

- Pioneers of construction:

• We leverage our DfMA expertise across multiple sectors for faster
  construction and reduced risk.

 

- Scalability made simple:

• Our modular, repeatable DfMA design approach ensures maximum flexibility
  for the end client with cost/time benefits.

 

Why us?

We’ve worked closely with the biggest names in the hyperscale business for a number of years and have an intimate understanding of what drives their businesses.

Efficient design of both the white space and supporting technical equipment, along with our focus on close coupling systems, reduces distribution costs and avoids wasted space.

We’ve created masterplans for hundreds of MWs of facilities around the world and understand the importance of maximizing yield from a prospective site. Carefully designed structures, created to be in sync with the white space cooling and power distribution systems they support, enable us to drive down floor-to-floor heights. This maximizes the number of stories the site can deliver, which means maximum MW yield.

We’re currently working on live projects in Ireland, UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy, with feasibility studies either completed or underway in Helsinki, Frankfurt, Zurich, Warsaw, Bogota, Dubai, and Dallas.

 

Data Center Capabilities

As an integrated practice we offer data center clients the following services:

• 
  Mission-critical power and cooling design
  - RIBA 1-5 CSA building design, optimization and integration
  - Reference design and kit of part design experts
  - Lead design services
  - Internal / External CFD / Pipeflo / Short Break Analysis, Buffer Vessel Sizing
  - Procurement and DfMA strategy
  - Cloud-based advanced BIM modeling
  - Automatic building configuration software development
  - Sustainability/energy strategies, LEED or BREEAM, energy modeling, whole life cycle
  carbon analysis
  - Client representation
  - Site support and building life cycle analysis
  - Local code analysis
  - Telecoms and security design services.

Visit our Data Center hub for more information about our data center solutions.