Engineering resilience: Addressing the core challenges of data center infrastructure
In the race to market, data centers face a range of complex challenges that demand both strategic foresight and technical precision. These include selecting optimal sites with access to reliable fiber infrastructure, ensuring resilient and redundant power systems, streamlining grid interconnections, and deploying efficient, scalable cooling technologies. Navigating regulatory landscapes for timely environmental and permitting approvals and implementing data-driven, proactive asset management programs are also critical to long-term performance.
As data center demand accelerates globally, addressing these challenges is essential to quickly deliver high-performance and future-ready infrastructure, which is reliable, adaptable and efficient.
Data center services
We help create agile solutions that ensure data centers are built quickly, operate reliably, and scale efficiently. Our multidisciplinary teams provide end-to-end support, from site selection and permitting, to power systems design, cooling optimization, and grid integration. By combining technical expertise with proven project delivery services, we can help clients navigate regulatory complexities, accelerate time to market, and future-proof their infrastructure for evolving digital demands.
Our Response
Site selection and strategic planning
Selecting the right site is foundational to the success of any data center project. We apply a data-driven, multidisciplinary approach to evaluate potential locations based on critical factors such as proximity to power and fiber infrastructure, environmental constraints, permitting timelines, land use compatibility, and access to water for cooling. We also assess regional energy markets, climate resilience impacts to design, and economic development contributions to ensure long-term community integration and operational viability. Our strategic planning services help clients de-risk early decisions and align site selection with business objectives, ESG priorities, and future scalability goals.
Powering your data center
Rapid access to reliable power is critical to data center success. Our integrated power solutions are designed for resilience, efficiency, and seamless compatibility with utility and backup systems. We specialize in collocated power generation systems—whether for bridging or permanent use—across all conventional and emerging generation technologies. Our scalable architectures support phased growth, renewable energy integration, and full compliance with regional permitting and interconnection standards. From medium- and high-voltage infrastructure to grid interconnection studies and utility coordination, our team delivers end-to-end expertise.
Utility coordination
Coordinating with utility providers is critical to ensure timely access to reliable power, water, and gas services. We lead early engagement and ongoing collaboration with utilities to streamline approvals, align infrastructure timelines, and ensure regulatory compliance. We have numerous years of experience supporting grid interconnection studies, capacity assessments, water permitting for cooling systems, and gas utility coordination for back-up generation. By integrating utility coordination into the early stages of project development, we help reduce delays, de-risk infrastructure dependencies, and ensure that data centers are supported by robust, future-ready utility networks.
Resilient power supply designs
Downtime is not an option. We design power supply systems that prioritize redundancy and resilience, integrating diesel and gas generators, UPS systems, and battery energy storage to ensure uninterrupted operations during grid outages or maintenance. As service providers strive to meet renewable energy goals, we support hybrid designs that incorporate battery storage and scalable UPS systems tailored to your data center’s unique needs.
Physical and cybersecurity planning
Security is more than a firewall. Our security and deployment team provides critical infrastructure assessment and resiliency planning. Data centers face an increasingly complex risk landscape, from cyber threats to natural disaster. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, mitigation strategies, continuity planning, and emergency response frameworks to safeguard your infrastructure before, during, and after a crisis.
Environmental services
We provide comprehensive environmental services to support the sustainable development of data centers. Our expertise spans environmental permitting, regulatory compliance, and impact assessments, ensuring projects meet evolving environmental standards. We help integrate climate resilience, energy efficiency, and sustainable water and waste management into design and operations. We also guide stakeholder engagement, including with Indigenous communities, and develop carbon reduction strategies aligned with global environmental, social, and governance goals. Our life-cycle-focused approach minimizes environmental footprints while maximizing operational resilience.
Operations and asset management
We help prepare you for operations through hiring and training your team, planning the commissioning, and ensuring they are ready for operations. Our asset management services optimize the reliability, efficiency, and longevity of data center infrastructure. We offer real-time condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and risk-based inspections to identify and address potential failures. Through data-driven diagnostics, life cycle planning, and non-destructive testing, operators can reduce downtime, extend asset life, and improve energy efficiency. Advanced analytics and performance modeling support informed decision-making, ensuring data centers remain resilient and cost effective.
EPCM services
As data centers grow in scale and complexity, so do their demands. From concept to commissioning, we manage every phase of your data center project with a focus on quality, safety, and efficiency. Acting as a trusted partner, we provide EPCM services that ensure cost control, technical oversight, and timely execution. We manage stakeholder interfaces, mitigate risks, and deliver complex projects on time and on budget, without compromising performance or safety.