Thinking by market - Data & Telecommunications

Mission critical data centres and learning from a crisis

As demand for data connectivity rises during COVID-19, data centres have been identified as 'essential infrastructure'. What can we learn from this moment?

– Matt Gurr, Technical Director

Hot Data – the challenge of designing data centres for humid, tropical climates

Half the world is now connected to the internet and it's changing how data centres are designed and located.

Improving operational performance by bringing people back into data centres

For Aurecon’s Matt Gurr, human-centred design can define new approaches to improve operational efficiency in the data centres.

Building the digital estate

According to Aurecon’s Chief Digital Officer Andrew Maher, rushing it to digital without a fit for purpose strategy will pose more challenges than opportunities.

How drones are changing the way we design, deliver and manage assets

Aurecon’s Ralph Loesche explores how drones are having a significant impact on how we design and deliver aspects of our built environment, which has the potential to change the way we live and work.

5G – Welcoming the future

Aurecon’s Brendon Woods highlights the need to balance compliance with the ability to maximize potentialities in laying the foundations of a safe future.

Data centres that look to the future

In this paper, Peter Greaves tells us why data centres that look to the future are lasting assets for those who invest in them.

Improving roadworks' safety & traffic management

Kim Thomas, Aurecon’s Intelligent Transport Systems Leader for ANZ, discusses a recent research study on potential technologies and applications that can be implemented to help achieve zero harm at roadworks sites.

Communicating with infrastructure in the connected age

Colin Dominish writes about the shift from the age of Information, to the Connected Age, where infrastructure will converse with itself and humans in ways that transform the built environment.

Will urbanisation break the big cities?

Currently, about 60 million people move into cities every year. That’s more than one million more people arriving every week, in a city somewhere in the world, each with an expectation of better access to jobs, better education for their children, better health-care and a better quality of life.

High risk implementation planning for data centres

Data centres are strategic business assets facilitating the services a company can provide their customers.

Cooling ICT environments: where to next?

Pete Greaves, Aurecon’s Expertise leader for Data & ICT Facilities and Ross McCarthy, Senior Mechanical Engineer at Aurecon, discuss the latest trends in cooling technology.

Data centre design for unpredictable demand

Aurecon associate and electrical engineer, Matt Gurr, explains the key considerations of designing data centres for unpredictable demand.

Data centres – uncompromising and critical to business operations

Peter Greaves, Aurecon’s Competency Leader, Building Services, explores some of the unique challenges inherent in data centres design.

Managing the data centre loads of today and the future

Peter Greaves and Matt Gurr discuss the increasing demands on data centres and explore how these facilities should be designed to accommodate unpredictable future data centres and expansion requirements.

Welcome to Aurecon’s data centres for the digital age

The digital age has increased the demand for data centres that meet stringent security, energy efficiency, business continuity and productivity optimisation needs. In addition, data centres are also required to accommodate unpredictable future loads. The application of cutting-edge technologies and innovation has become a burning issue in the construction of data centres. With the emergence of digital engineering and the widespread use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), modular design and prefabricated construction will become more prevalent, and new builds and the operation of these will become more efficient.

Designing data centres for the future

Design considerations for future proofing a data centre’s design involves foresight and understanding of a broad range of issues in the digital age.

Data centres – the world’s greatest energy guzzlers

Aurecon’s Peter Greaves explores why data centres consume so much energy; how design principles can help minimise a data centre’s energy needs; and possible future trends that may help reduce energy consumption.

Data Centres - exploring the trend

Four of Aurecon’s Data and ICT experts explore the latest thinking surrounding the current and future state of data centres globally.

Data for a 21st century Africa

Countries (especially African countries) need to start looking at more local solutions in order to ensure data sovereignty and efficient network performance. This demand will drive a significant data centre build-out in both East and West Africa over the next 20 years and now is the time to start reassessing the number of data centres in Africa.