Digital Infrastructure
Structural engineering for digital infrastructure: data centres, and telecom masts and antenna sites.
Two very different building tasks with one thing in common: the structure has to carry technology, cool it and keep it reachable, and downtime costs more than construction.
What counts
High imposed loads on small areas, load reserves for retrofit, vibration and deflection limits that come from equipment rather than from codes. Added to that, redundancy as a design principle – in the structure too, where service routes and fire compartments have to be kept separate.
For masts and antenna supports, wind and ice loads dominate, along with fatigue and the need to verify an existing site with every new installation.
Our role
Structural and detailed design, verification for equipment loads and retrofits, and stability verification for existing support structures.