Construction Magazine April 2020 | Page 29

Energy resilience in an interconnected world - Arup
Energy resilience in an interconnected world - Arup
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29 “ As the IT load increases we need to look at the supporting systems to reduce the impact and make these structures as efficient as possible ”

— Christopher Tolmie , Associate Director , Buildings Engineering Group and the architecture needs to respond to that . At Arup we ’ re able to deliver against challenging programmes and timescales in countries that may never even have seen a building of this nature before .”
“ These builds are becoming larger and ever more power intensive as the IT load continues to grow ,” adds Christopher Tolmie . An electrical engineer by background , and a fellow Associate Director in the Buildings Engineering Group , he leads the MEP team ’ s data centre design delivery . “ The sector is evolving so we need to keep up with technology and anticipate the data centres of the future for our clients . As the
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