Data Centres
Capability Statement
Introduction.
Established in 1998, Fulkers Bailey Russell is a construction consultancy firm offering tailored solutions to clients investing in construction and property within the public and private sectors.
We offer a multidisciplinary service comprising project management, cost management, building surveying, architecture and consultancy services for new build, refurbishment, repair, and upgrade projects. As part of a project team, or as a bespoke one-stop service, we strive to assist our clients in delivering successful and valuable developments.
Fulkers provides a no-nonsense, flexible, result-orientated service: A modern, forward thinking and professional practice, we value each of our clients. It is our objective to maintain a business which offers value for money and allows director attention on all projects.
What we do.
We place people, both clients and employees, at the centre of our business ethos and differentiate ourselves from the competition through our management style and culture.
This empowers our employees within an environment that encourages continuous improvement through sharing knowledge and best practice, challenge and innovation.
Our People.
Our people are passionate and dedicated to providing the best independent and innovative solutions to all our clients’ projects in a team environment that breeds success and leaves clients feeling that they have got more than they expected. Our ISO 9001 certification is testament to the quality of our service, systems and standards and our B-Corp certification demonstrates our commitment to making a positive impact in all that we do.
Our Services.
Multi-Disciplinary
Through partnership with our approved suppliers, we are able to provide a holistic multi-disciplinary service which includes, but is not limited to:
Acoustic Engineering, Architectural Design, BIM, Civil and Structural Engineering, Digital Surveying, Energy Design, Fire Management, Laser Scanning and Point Cloud, Lift Engineering, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Workplace Consultancy
Project Management
Change Management, Clerk of Works, Construction Project Management, Contract Administration, Design Management, Employer’s Agent, Energy Projects, Facilities Planning, Masterplanning, MEP Projects, Migration Management, Procurement, Programming and Scheduling, Project Governance and Control, Supply Chain Management
We are responsible for delivering a range of construction projects, all our services are geared to reduce risk, give greater certainty and to provide the best value for clients. This is why we develop our business around people.
Our people take time to understand your business and share their knowledge with the aim of generating fresh ideas. By blending our people, systems and construction market knowledge with our company, we customise our services to meet your requirements.
Cost Management
Bank Monitoring, Budget Advice, Budget Benchmarking, Building Cost Reinstatement Valuation, Cash Flow Analysis, Commercial Governance, Construction Cost Control, Contract Documentation, Design Cost Control, Development Appraisal, Due Diligence and Feasibility, Masterplanning, MEP Cost Control, Procurement Strategy, Project Monitoring, Tender Documentation, Value Management, Whole Life Cost Modelling
Building Surveying
Access Consultancy, Acquisition Surveys, Clerk of Works, Condition Surveys, Contract Administration, Defect Analysis, Design, Extension and Refurbishment, Dilapidations, Due Diligence Surveys, Employer’s Agent, Energy Efficiency, Feasibility Studies, Fire Door and Compartment Surveys, Fire Risk Assessments, Historic Building Conservation, Lead Consultant, Licence to Alter Party Walls, Planned Maintenance Surveys, Risk Management, Sustainable Construction, Whole Life Cycle Costings
Inspections, Contractor
Designer / H&S Architecture
CDM Advisor, Safety Advice,
Auditing,
Monitoring
Principal
Advisor, Designer BIM, Building Design, Contract Administration, Design, Extension and Refurbishment, Energy Efficiency, Feasibility Studies, Interior Design, Lead Consultant Services, New Build, Sustainable Construction
Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Decarbonisation
Baseline Management, Commercial Management, Data Analyst, Governance, Process Improvement and Management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Schedule Management, Strategic and Data Driven Reporting
Asset and Utilisation Reviews, Carbon Cost Tool, Carbon vs Cost, Fabric Condition, Funding Opportunities, Programme Strategy, Whole Life Cycle
Building Safety
Building Regs Principal Designer, Condition Reports, Design Management, Fire Door Inspections and Maintenance Programming, Fire Door Upgrades and Replacements, Golden Thread, Preparing Building Safety Case, Quality Control Management, Reviewing FRAEW’s, Structural/ Cladding/Fire Remediation
Big enough to cut it, small enough to care.
About Us.
Since the company was founded we have grown into a multidisciplinary consultancy with over 170 employees. Fully owned by three equity partners, we are not restricted by corporate red tape, we are able to take an agile and flexible approach to react to our clients needs quickly.
Strong, visible leadership from our senior teams ensures a personable approach and outstanding service delivery. We are big enough to cut it and small enough to care.
2023
ESG.
Fulkers are a Certified B Corporation, verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Becoming a B Corp was a huge achievement for our company and is validation of our long-standing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility.
We have also been awarded the Prestigious Silver Rating from EcoVadis, an internationally recognised sustainability platform that evaluates companies across a range of criteria, including environment, human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement practises. The Silver Medal places Fulkers in the top 25% of all assessed companies and recognises our commitment to sustainable business practices.
“While B Corp focuses on our holistic corporate responsibility, EcoVadis offers a detailed analysis of our operating practices and supply chain, aiding targeted improvements. Together, they enhance our credibility and demonstrate a commitment to ethical and sustainable practices, fostering trust with our clients, stakeholders and partners. Having both accreditations reinforces our dedication to comprehensive sustainability practices across both internal operations and external collaborations. We are one of very few companies to hold both accreditations.”
Sam Bailey, Partner
Our Commitment.
To create awareness.
Share knowledge and resource.
Use of more sustainable materials and practices.
Development of our focus on sustainable procurement process/ policy.
Develop our corporate social responsibility procurement process / policy.
Invest in people and suppliers.
Ensure sustainability is at the forefront of all client conversations.
To lead by example. Staff training.
Develop our KPI’s to reflect the above.
VARIOUS PROJECTS
Location: Various
Value: >£75m
IBM Greenock
IBM Greenford
All projects for IBM, delivered by the Fulkers Bailey Russell (Fulkers) team members, were on live Data Centres. The team is proud to have replaced nearly all of the infrastructure over IBM’s portfolio throughout the UK and EMEA with no downtime over the last 15 years. All projects were cradle to grave and included independent commissioning agent to verify the installs once complete including Integrated System Tests.
Ten large chillers at IBM North Harbour were replaced one at a time to maintain site cooling during the project, plus rebalancing of the main header once the replacement was complete. Intelligent solutions for cooling were installed and the campus security was updated, including with biometric access controls, cut and climb detection of the fence line, plus the camera systems to react to any intruder attempt on the fence. In line with this was to install a new high security area with an existing data centre to accommodate the needs of an IBM customer. This included new mantrap doors and security fencing (floor to ceiling). IBM Greenford posed additional challenges as it was a listed building and needed close liaison with the local council and English Heritage. We also worked very closely with data centre operatives and the site facilities management team to futureproof the work and plan for asset maintenance and replacement.
EMEA Data Centre Programme, Undisclosed:
Delivering data centre infrastructure projects across EMEA all with the remit of no loss of power. All projects required thorough testing and commissioning.
New Machine Room, Greenock, £2m:
The conversion of existing office space into the new machine data room and managing the location transfer of staff. Building the new external service compound, internal coolers, power distribution units, builders works.
Resilience Improvement Project, £12m
Improving the resilience of the complete electrical infrastructure at an IBM Mega Centre comprising 100,000ft² of the data centre by adding four diesel rotary uninterruptible power supply units and 43 static transfer switches. Delivered with no interruption to business operations. This facility now provides N+1 resilience to all client’s data services.
Data Centre, Greenford, £18m
Large data centre infrastructure upgrade including two new generators, construction of a new uninterruptible power supply building, switchgear, batteries and generator controls. Completed with no loss of power to the data centre.
High Voltage Switchgear, North Harbour, £6.2m
Replacement of high voltage switchgear and construction of a new building to house high voltage switchgear and distribution network operator incoming switches. Completed with no loss of power to the data centre.
Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Warwick, £7.8m
Replacement of uninterruptible power supplies system, including switchgear and batteries. Completed with no loss of power to the data centre.
Resilience Improvement Project, Warwick, £11m
Enhanced resilience of a major data centre which included the installation of diesel rotary uninterruptible power supplies and static switches in a fully operational environment, working on a 24/7 basis.
e-Learning, Farnborough, £8m
Relocation of IBMs e-Learning facility in Central London to their campus in Farnborough. The project comprised converting an existing open plan office building into a training centre including constructing 20 classrooms and a full kitchen and cafeteria for seating space for 300 people over two sittings.
Google.
Google Campus, Belgium
Members of the Fulkers team led and delivered various infrastructure and construction projects on this live data centre campus. The role was to manage the relationship with the client, keeping projects running in these difficult times and keeping the team and sub-contractors safe. A €25m construction project was carried out to build, fit-out and commission a water treatment plant, taking water from the nearby canal, to assist with campus cooling loads for present and future cooling needs as more data centres are constructed and come online. Cooling tower modifications were completed, including smart cooling solutions, to existing data centres on the Belgium Campus, which were all on live data centres with no loss of production.
Other infrastructure projects included: kilometres of fibre optic installs with splicing, welding and testing; the replacement of generators and uninterruptible power supplies.
Google Data Centre, Finland
Working with the Google team, advising on data centre construction and infrastructure projects across EMEA, as Owners Representative responsible for assisting with the design development and providing advice on constructibility. Included working with the successful general contractor for the delivery of the construction. In Finland, acting on behalf, and with the client as Owners Representative for the construction of a new build, two-storey hyperscale data centre (80Mw). A sea water intake plant was constructed to serve the new data centre and future builds, bringing in additional cooling from the sea. Once treated, the water would assist with the huge cooling demands of the new hyperscale data centre and future-proof for planned new builds.
An interesting challenge in Finland was the presence of granite rock. In order to achieve levels for construction, a large amount of controlled explosions were required resulting in a unique health and safety item to manage. The hyperscale data centre required all of the infrastructure expected of such a project: high voltage feeds from the sub station; low voltage feeds into the data centre, including power distribution unit level; air handling units for fresh air; cooling units for the data centre; uninterruptible power supply and generator back up systems, including generator controls; and building management systems.
Factory acceptance tests were arranged and attended and, when equipment arrived, site acceptance tests were organised along with full testing and commissioning, including an integrated system test by an independent commissioning agent. The team was also responsible for overseeing the full handover, including operations and maintenance manuals, as fitted drawings, training, commissioning certifications and warranty certificates.
VARIOUS PROJECTS
Location: Various
Value: Undisclosed
St. Ghislain, Belgium © Google
University of East Anglia.
Situated within the Norwich Research Park, just two miles from the centre of Norwich, The University of East Anglia (UEA) is England’s first UNESCO City of Literature and a world leading centre for environment, health and plant science research. The university has long been a leader in the field of environmental research and training and is committed to replicating this success in their strategies for the campus and its surrounding environment.
The university’s Sustainability Board works with their community, staff, researchers and students to explore ways to encourage innovation in the field of environmental impact within the university and beyond as a part of their energy and carbon reduction programme. This programme led the University to initiate the ‘greening’ and refurbishment of their existing data centre, which was not performing in line with their ambitious corporate goals.
The project required the navigation of a number of challenges, including:
- The UEA data centre is located within a Grade II listed building, therefore a solution which optimised, but did not alter, the existing space was required.
- Research programmes operate year-round at the university, which meant maintaining campuswide business as usual throughout the works.
One of the client’s main goals was to increase the capacity of the centre, and therefore also the cooling requirements, whilst also improving the power usage effectiveness (PUE) dramatically, from its previous PUE of 2.08, to a very optimistic 1.19. This target was achieved through heavy engagement with specialist contractors, ensuring a flexible and detailed design tailored to the university’s unique space.
Deutsche Bank.
VARIOUS PROJECTS
Location: Various
Value: >£70m
The Fulkers team have provided project management and cost management services, under previous employment, for a range of data centre improvement projects for this multinational investment bank. This experience has included:
Data Centre Fit-Out
Works to construct new data hall bringing in an additional 400kw of power.
Uninterrupted Power Supply Pod Cooling Project
Works to install air handling units to uninterrupted power supply pods.
Data Centre, Hayes, £37m
Full pre and post-contract cost management on a 30,000ft2 2N data centre complete with support areas and offices, as well as upgrade to existing incoming electrical supplies.
IT Extension, Hayes, £30m
Option studies for extension of existing facility to deal with forecast IT requirements
Net Shelter, £4m
Cost planning for “Net Shelter” quick fix solution for IT requirements.
Barclays.
The Fulkers team have supported Barclays for over 10 years delivering various types of projects, both whilst with Fulkers and under previous employment.
During this period the client’s Real Estate portfolio has increased significantly year on year, in line with business growth, placing huge demands on their Corporate Real Estate Services Department (CRES). Our proposed team have successfully supported CRES throughout by delivering a diverse range of capital investment projects including restacks, office fit-outs, refurbishments, and infrastructure upgrades and data centre schemes.
Infrastructure and data centre projects for this client have included:
Project Dart
Project Dart is the fit-out of an existing building to provide a day one requirement of 24,000ft² white space together with associated infrastructure for day two expansion of technical space. Cost management and risk management services were provided under previous employment.
Project Spear, Gloucester, Undisclosed Value
Cost management under previous employment for a new build data centre on existing data centre campus in Gloucester.
Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC)
Upgrades, London, £3m
Works to upgrade cooling and replace the CRAC units to an existing live data centre in Canary Wharf.
Busbar Upgrade Works, London, £3m
Works to replace and upgrade the existing busbar and cabling installations to an existing data centre in West London. The project utilised a traditional lump sum procurement strategy.
Comms Room Cooling Replacement, £2m
Works to strip out and replace air conditioning units to an existing live data centre. The team, whilst under previous employment, provided both project management and cost management services utilising a negotiated tender procurement strategy.
New Data Centre
A new 65,000ft² data centre facility. Development and fit out to provide a tier 4 facility with large proportion of high density cabinets, including due diligence.
Data Centre Extension
16,000ft² tier 4 extension to existing data centre facility. The works involved the fit-out, including an element of high-density cabinets and mixed water and CO2 cooling systems. All works were carried out adjacent existing operational data centre.
Disaster Recovery Fit-out
Cat B fit out above a data centre facility to provide disaster recovery offices for dealers and office staff. All works carried out over an existing operational data centre.
New Data Centre, Gloucester, £50m
Detail cost panning for a new 32,000ft2 data centre on the Gloucester Campus, including high voltage infrastructure extensions.
VARIOUS PROJECTS
Location: Various
Value: >£50m
Projects Matrix.
Client, Location
Project Value
Project Dart is the fit-out of an existing building to provide day 1 requirement of 2,200m² white space together with the infrastructure for day 2 expansion of technical space. Cost management and risk management services.
Project Spear is a new build data centre on existing data centre campus in Gloucester.
Works to upgrade cooling and replace the CRAC units to an existing live data centre on Canary Wharf.
Works to replace and upgrade the existing busbar and cabling installations to an existing data centre in West London. Project management and cost management services utilising a traditional lump sum procurement strategy.
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
£3m
£3m
Barclays, UK
British Airways, Heathrow
Works to strip out and replace air conditioning units to an existing live data centre. Project management and cost management services utilising a negotiated tender procurement strategy.
Works to construct new data hall E bringing in 400kw of power.
Northcroft provided both Project management and cost management services utilising a negotiated tender procurement strategy.
Works to install AHUs to UPS pods. Project management and cost management services utilising a negotiated tender procurement strategy.
£2m
Undisclosed
Undisclosed 6000m² (white space) new data centre facility. Development and fit-out to provide a tier 4 facility with large proportion of high density cabinets. Including due diligence.
Detail cost panning for a new 3000m2 data centre on the Gloucester Campus, including high voltage infrastructure extensions.
Refurbishment of existing data centre in Boadicea House at Heathrow Airport to provide new air conditioning and improved electrical resilience including associated building works. All works were carried out whilst the facility was occupied and fully operational
New 5,300m², two-storey laboratory and support facilities with landscaping and car park. The building incorporated specialist building services necessary for scientific research. As part of the feasibility cost planning, alternatives for location of central plant items and the distribution of services was considered resulting in a combination of a mezzanine plant decks and external plant compounds. Externally, ducts and trenches were formed to facilitate supplies being connected to other buildings on the campus.
Responsible for undertaking and co-ordinating a pan-European audit of their tier 1 switchroom facilities mechanical and electrical installations. The audit included 14 sites in 11 countries undertaken in a 6-week period and led to a £5m project of upgrades to improve switchroom resiliences
Data centre in Zurich, Switzerland
Data centre in Geneva, Switzerland
Undisclosed
£50m
£500k
£500k
£800k
Cancer Research UK, South Mimms
Concert Communications Inc (BT), Europe
Client, Location Project
Corporation of London, UK
Deutsche Bank, UK
DigiPlex, Oslo
Eircom U.K. Limited, UK
Cost management services for three phases of this project in Guildhall: North Block, Justice Rooms and West Wing, and St Alphage House. This prestigious project will rationalise the Corporation of London’s offices onto two sites and will bring them firmly into the 21st Century. The North Block includes a server farm and ICT suite.
Project New World involved the expansion of Credit Suisse First Boston’s European Headquarters into state of-the-art office space at Canary Wharf, London. The project involved the refurbishment of FC1, construction of two new buildings B4 and B5 including fit out and the fit out of three floors within 1 Westferry Circus. Total office accommodation totalled 783,00ft².
Expansion of Credit Suisse First Boston European Headquarters, beyond Project New World. This new standalone 500,000ft² new office development has been developed primarily for back of house staff with a self contained IT Suite with an additional IT Suite to serve as a disaster recovery site for PNW. The Mechanical and Electrical infrastructure is designed to achieve a highly valued engineered system feeding the back of house areas whilst maintaining resilience and integrity for the disaster recovery IT Suite.
Works to construct new data hall E bringing in 400kw of power. Northcroft provided both Project Management and Cost Management services utilising a negotiated tender procurement strategy.
Works to install AHUs to UPS pods. Northcroft provided both Project Management and Cost Management services utilising a negotiated tender procurement strategy.
Full pre and post contract Cost Management on a 2800m2 2N Data Centre c/w support areas and offices and upgrade to existing site incoming electrical supplies.
Option studies for extension of existing facility to deal with forecast IT requirements
£50m
£139m
£67m
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
£37m
£31m-£96m
Cost planning for “Net Shelter” quick fix solution for IT requirements. £4m
Infrastructure upgrade for 2250m2 of the Data Centre to facilitate module build-out. This includes an additional 4.4mVA of generator back-up, numerous 750kVA rotary UPS units. The data centre currently combines N+N configuration with individual module UPS units although this has been changed by customer demand to N+1 maintained strings with central rotary UPS.
The fitting out of Level 2 of the Data Centre on Oslo, including all associated electrical and mechanical infrastructure for a power load of up to 2000W per metre square. Individual module cost planning of numerous options for configurations of individual customer modules within the Data Centre floor including power strings in A+B with dual cording, N+1 in central maintained or unmaintained formats and N+1 with integral UPS format, The project contains 2.2mVA generators, upgrade of HV supply, enlargement, rearrangement and replacement of LV switchgear, enlargement of chilling plant and free cooling capacity with associated chilled water infrastructure.
Data centre projects in London, Manchester and Bristol
£15m
Undisclosed
£500k
Credit Suisse First Boston, London
Client, Location
Eircom UK Limited, UK
Esprit Telecom, Europe
Global Financial Data Company, Worldwide
Google, Europe
Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes
IBM, EMEA
Cable & Telephone Company, Isle of Wight
Lehman Brothers, UK
Merchant Bank (Confidential), UK
Metropolitan Police, London
National Australia Group Europe
O2, Uddingston
Omne Communications Ltd, UK
Project
Construction of telecommunication switch rooms in London and Manchester.
Data centre projects in London, Barcelona, Paris and Rotterdam.
New data centres in Dubai, Mumbai, Madrid, Milan, Brussels, Moscow. Upgrades to their data centres in Frankfurt.
Various infrastructure and construction projects on live data centre campuses in Belgium and Finland.
New build 7,000 m² ‘green’ office block, providing naturally ventilated office space and a server farm with 2N resilience and over 240 racks to provide facilities to the business campus. In addition, it was necessary to undertake the service diversions for HV Cable, LV Cable, drainage and water supply.
Replacement of nearly all of the infrastructure over IBM’s portfolio throughout the UK and EMEA with no downtime over the last 15 years.
Data centre in Cowes
Currently feasibility studies and due diligence for a new tier 4 data centre facility of 2,000m² (white space).
Provision of an ultra resilient 7,000m² data hall sub-divided into two separate buildings and supported by dual power pods incorporating rotary diesel UPS units. This was supplemented by a separate detailed option appraisal and risk analysis whilst considered reductions in resilience against capital cost.
Full Cost and Project management on extension to existing live data hall facility including the installation of new EDF incoming supplies and resilient infrastructure.
A new 3,000m² N+1 second data centre for NAGE within a set radius of the primary data centre.
Data centre dealing with the day to day maintenance and compliance of the halls, upgrades of the said halls to accommodate new racks and upgraded resilience.
Formation of two telecommunication switch rooms in on separate sites Irvine and Lancaster.
Data centre projects in Morecambe, Carlisle and Irvine.
Primus Telecommunications SA, France Data centre in Paris
Rack Space, UK
Sky, UK
Telstra Limited, London
University of East Anglia, Norwich
University of Sussex, Brighton
4,400m² (white space) new tier 2 data centre.
Delivered various data centre upgrades and solutions such as the new call centres in Newcastle and Stockport and watermark Livingston. These where N+1 solutions with gas suppression and focused on the support of call takers continuity.
Data centre in the City.
Responsible for refurbishing an existing data centre, whilst maintaining campus wide business as usual (BAU).
Responsible for delivering a hot aisle containment data centre within a grade II* listed building.
£400k
£2m
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
£75m
£700k
Undisclosed
£192m
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
£1.5m
£3.5m
£300k
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
£4m
£1m
£1.5m
