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This is arguably exactly where we are today with industrialisation – the ground is shifting quickly, fissures are opening up, lethal challenge and paths to opportunity are open to us like they were to our ancestors in the Rift Valley.We need to be at the right scale to survive and prosper.. More in my next Blog….

Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.

Available to purchase at.Although it is a long-established sector, bringing together experts from multiple leading players in the data centre world was experimental.In an exponentially growing and highly competitive industry, it is not normal for a diverse group from across the industry to come together and share problems and ideas..

But this is exactly the group that convened at Accelerate Data Centres, London, in January 2025..

The density debate.The existing plant was 20 years old, and at the end of its useful life.

But you can’t simply replace an old plant with a new one – mechanical and electrical engineering machines are so much more advanced and efficient now so some take up less space, but others are larger due to the need to reduce energy (for example, air-handling units).We have taken the opportunity to reconfigure the building to some extent.

But in the case of the air handling units, the building was more or less built around them so it was difficult and financially unviable to remove them.So we have taken a mixed replace and refurbish approach to the plant machinery..