The Technical Property team is structured to provide best in class capabilities across a wide range of disciplines focused on seamless delivery to our clients.
Our services provide essential aduits for prospective owners or occupiers about a sites condition and potential as well as the risks and liabilities they may inherit during the operation of the facility and for completion of a property transaction / contract arrangements for investors.
Pre-acquisition audits are independent and integral to the due diligence process and to mitigate / understand any risk.
Imagine for a moment the consequences following a power outage or air conditioning failure in your data centre, your losses could be counted in the millions, coupled with disaffected customers your business may take months to recover.
End users often assume that a data centre will perform as advertised, experience indicates otherwise. The US based Uptime Institute, creator of the Tier I-IV specification have added there considerable support, recommending an independent audit, trust but verify.
Always on is the mantra, however reality often blocks the way, the Uptime Institute reported that the cost of an information outage caused by just a single infrastructure failure can sometimes exceed the whole annual budget for your infrastructure operation.
Furthermore, while infrastructure failures only represent less than four percent (4%) of all outage events, they account for twenty five (25%) or more of all outage downtime.
Since we can’t yet operate high density data centres without electrical power, and the requisite cooling, the Mechanical and Electrical infrastructure is a critical element of data centre operation. And operator and managers need a tool to ensure that all practical measures have been undertaken to ensure the stability, and reliability.
It is paramount that you audit the data center as unlike other environments data centres are unique in that they are continuously evolving IT and communication requirements, technology and hardware upgrades.
Furthermore over time new hardware, and IT configurations are added to cope with increasing demand, this requires additional electrical power and computer equipment. For example newer blade servers allow more IT capacity to be fitted into a standard computer rack than ever before, but can the cooling system cope?
Unchecked expansion affects the stability of all the infrastructure systems
The types of audits available are:-
1. Building / Colocation Audit – Facilities and maintenance producers, mechanical and electrical checks, Physical property checks.
2. Security Audit – Physical security, CCTV, Biometrics, procedures
3. Connectivity / Fibre Audit – POP rooms, physical fibre connections, cable management
4. Legal Audit – Lease Review, Title review, statutory approvals review.
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