Process spaces were housed on a single level, raised above the ground to meet flood protection requirements.

Often state-run, these organisations suffer no commercial loss from being slow or late in delivering agreed power infrastructure.This can typically take 12 to 18 months.. To contend with some of these challenges, developers are pushing the boundaries of their operations and getting directly involved in the delivery of electrical distribution infrastructure by contracting private companies to carry out the work.

This approach is growing significantly in Asia.Private companies like Octopus in the UK are looking at expanding their remit and starting to invest in distribution of power..The regulatory hurdles are not lessening.

In fact, most believe they are tightening.The energy efficiency of data centres (PUE) is being increasingly regulated, especially in the EU.

In Germany, specific regulations about the use of recovered heat are coming into force.

There is a great opportunity to use the recovered heat from DCs.And how could we do better in our approach to pharmaceutical facility design?.

We developed a particular set of tools and an approach that over time became what we now refer to as Design to Value.As we have evolved this approach over the years, we’ve extended it to include many more pharmaceutical engineering projects, as well as a wide range of other sectors, from heavy industry to prisons.. Part of our role is to act as pharmaceutical plant design consultants.

What we aim to do is make sure that projects are well aligned with business requirements; to define and design future assets that translate a company’s strategic objectives into tangible manufacturing facilities – and provide added value.The key point here is that we put a great deal of effort into defining the business needs.