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Hyperscale Data Centre Design.

Schematic and early-stage design support for a large-scale, high-density technical infrastructure facility, engineered for scalability, resilience and phased expansion capability.

Project Snapshot
Sector
Hyperscale data centre
Region
EMEA
Scale
~50 MW IT load · multi-phase
Stage
Schematic · early-stage design support
Disciplines
Design Management
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
BIM Coordination
Technical Infrastructure Planning

A multi-phase, high-density facility designed from the outset to scale, with a coordinated infrastructure architecture that supports staged expansion without re-engineering the core electrical and mechanical topology.

Overview

XCN provided schematic and early-stage design support for a hyperscale data centre development structured around phased growth. The facility was designed to support high-density compute loads with a resilient power and cooling architecture, and a site strategy that allows additional phases to be brought online without disrupting the operational core.

The work focused on translating early client requirements and capacity planning targets into a coordinated infrastructure concept (power, cooling, BIM and site planning) that the wider delivery team could carry forward into detailed design with confidence.

Multi-phase hyperscale campus · concept stage

Scope of Services

Five interlocking workstreams across the disciplines required to define a scalable hyperscale facility at concept stage:

01
Design Management.
Coordination of multidisciplinary inputs, programme alignment and stakeholder reviews from kick-off through schematic completion.
02
Electrical Engineering.
Concept-level distribution architecture, resilience strategy and capacity planning for staged build-out.
03
Mechanical Engineering.
Cooling architecture, plant strategy and thermal performance modelling for high-density loads.
04
BIM Coordination.
Federated model development and coordination workflows aligned with delivery-team standards.
05
Technical Infrastructure Planning.
Site strategy, plant layout and phase-staging logic for long-term scalability.

Designed from the outset to scale.

Without re-engineering the operational core at each phase boundary.

Key Involvement

01
Developed scalable infrastructure concepts to support future growth: modular distribution and cooling topologies aligned with phase-by-phase capacity targets.
02
Coordinated multidisciplinary engineering design across CSA and MEP disciplines, with spatial, programme and capacity alignment held from the earliest stage.
03
Aligned design delivery with programme and operational requirements, translating client capacity and resilience targets into coordinated technical inputs.
04
Aligned design delivery with programme and operational requirements, translating client capacity and resilience targets into coordinated technical inputs.

Outcome

What changed

A coordinated concept-stage design package, covering electrical topology, cooling architecture, BIM coordination and site staging, that supports the facility's full build-out programme without redesign of the operational core at each phase boundary.

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