Why future-tech?

The Global Data Centre Engineering Experts

Future-tech is a specialist data centre engineering consultancy providing M&A, investment, design, project management and operations focussed services. The company is an independent organisation made up of designers, engineers, consultants, project managers, technical specialists, and Revit/BIM operators.

Together with our own experiences, we have engaged with organisations such as the Uptime Institute, Royal Institute of British Architects, the Institute of Engineering & Technology, the British Standards Institute, The International Standards Organisation, The European Commission, and the UK and European Data Centre Associations to gain further knowledge and insight as well as positively influencing and promoting data centre best practices and standards development globally.

Our specialist data centre knowledge and experience, combined with our collaborative and engaging approach, enables us to deliver class-leading services that are uniquely tailored to your business requirements and specific project.

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OUr Values

For more than 30 years we have provided specialist technical data centre design, build and management services. During this time, we have instilled our core values of partnership, innovation, and quality into our entire team.

We believe that by truly integrating with our clients, providing them with specialist expert knowledge and resources within a flexible and innovative framework we ensure their projects are built on solid foundations and achieve successful outcomes every time.

Our values drive our approach to every project and each client interaction. We believe this is one of the reasons Future-tech has gained the respect and trust of our clients and peers across the world.

By being a catalyst for change, by challenging ourselves and by constantly striving forward we grow, having a true sense of personal and professional fulfilment. These are our core beliefs and they drive our people, our designs, our services and our business.

FUTURE-TECH Global Experience

Our teams have provided services and solutions in EMEA and APAC as well as the USA. Our projects have taken us to locations including:

Europe	MEA (Middle East & Africa)	ROW (Rest of World)
Austria Belgium Bulgaria Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Spain Sweden Switzerland UK	Bahrain Cote d’Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Morocco Mozambique Nigeria Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia South Africa UAE Uganda	Brazil Canada India Malaysia Pakistan Thailand USA

Over the last three years, Future-tech has been engaged on more than 4GW of data centre capacity.

Accreditations and associations

At Future-tech we pride ourselves on our knowledge, and dedication to the data centre industry. Our excellence is reflected through our awards, accreditations, industry associations, standards bodies and growing client list. These clients have engaged Future-tech to provide technical due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, design engineering for new build projects, design of refurbishments and upgrades to existing facilities, client-side management and coordination of design, construction and operational works and facility management services and consulting.

ISO14001 certification is at statement of our commitment to reducing the environmental impact of our work. Future-tech makes a significant contribution to increasing the efficiency of data centres and offers a significant contribution towards environmental sustainability.

ISO0991 accreditation is an assurance to our clients that Future-tech is committed to delivering a consistently high level of service and that our procedures are robust and effective. This is of particular importance within mission-critical environments as our business is about mitigating risk and delivering uptime.

Future-tech has multiple employees that are Fellows, Chartered Members, or Associates of The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). The IET is a world-leading professional organisation, with 152,000 members worldwide in 127 countries promoting science, engineering, and technology across the world.

A CEng demonstrates both experience and competence at the highest level in the engineering profession, independently assessed and verified by peers and recognised worldwide. Future-tech has a number of qualified Chartered Engineers employed full time within the business. CEng is equivalent to Professional Engineer (PE), in the USA.

FEANI (Fédération Européenne d’Associations Nationales d’Ingénieurs) aims to facilitate the mutual recognition of engineering qualifications in Europe. This is supported by the award of the prenominal title European Engineer (EUR ING – Ingénieur Européen), which is carried by senior Future-tech engineers.

Future-tech employs Senior Members of the US based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE and its members inspire innovation across a global community through highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities around the globe.

Future-tech has a number of Uptime Institute qualified Engineers on staff. This includes Future-tech’s Critical Support Director, who was awarded all Uptime accreditations while working for the Uptime Institute as a Tier Certification Consultant and EMEA Network Director.

The Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) offered by the Uptime Institute is an individual qualification intended to provide data centre professionals with a detailed understanding of data centre design according to Uptime Institute principles. Future-tech employs a number of full-time ATD qualified Engineers.

The Uptime Institute Accredited Operations Specialist (AOS) qualification provides a complete understanding of the concepts and criteria used by The Uptime Institute to develop world-class data centre Management and Operations. Future-tech employs a number of full-time AOS qualified Engineers.

Future-tech has full time employees that are Fellows and Chartered Members of the Chartered Institute of Information Technology (BCS). Future-tech also actively engages with the BCS by committee membership of the Data Centre Specialist Group and through the award of CEEDA Gold Certifications achieved on customer data centre projects.

Future-tech has a number of Chartered PMI Members. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project management profession worldwide.

PRINCE2 (an acronym for PRojects IN Controlled Environments) is a de facto process-based method for effective project management. Used extensively by the UK Government, PRINCE2 is also widely recognised and used in the private sector, both in the UK and internationally.

ITIL (formerly an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library) qualifications are held by a number of Future-tech employees including our Fit-out & Migrations Manager.

ITIL

Future-tech were early contributors and remain official Endorsers of the European Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Future-tech employ the current editor of the annual document updates and current chair the annual best practice review committee.

The British Standards Institute (BSI) is the official UK Standards Development Organisation (SDO). Future-tech have been members of the committee responsible for UK contributions to global data centre standards and metrics for almost a decade and remain actively engaged.

CENELEC is the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization. Future-tech are leading influencers of the development of European Data Centre standards as the UK representative on TC 215 responsible for the development of the EN50600 series of standards (Information technology – Data centre facilities and infrastructures).

ISO is the leading independent, non-governmental membership organisation and the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards. Future-tech in involved in a leadership capacity in the development of global data centre Standards and KPIs through membership of ISO/IEC JCT1 SC39.

This committee is responsible for the development of the ISO/IEC 30134 series of standards (data centre resource efficiency KPIs) and the developing ISO/IEC TS 22237 series based on the European EN50600 Standard. Future-tech are currently hold the position of UK representative on this international committee.

Future-tech are active members of techUK’s Data Centre Programme. With a specialist focus on the data centre sector techUK champions the UK technology sector.

Future-tech acted as an advisor and contributor to the recent (November 2019) revision of the Building Research Establishment (BRE), Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), data centre annex.

Future-tech are engaged with the Data Centre Alliance (DCA), with a membership of the DCA Advisory Board. The DCA exists in order to serve its membership and the wider community of organisations who rely on the data centre sector to support their own business goals.

Future-tech’s key strength is its people. Our success as an industry-leading data centre specialist results directly from the knowledge, skills, and integrity of our staff. Our teams’ commitment to customers, quality, and innovation underpins this success. The Investors in People accreditation is an affirmation of our investment in the training and development of our key asset.

Future-tech’s independent Safecontractor accreditation illustrates that we uphold the highest standards in health and safety and are committed to continual training and development in this area. The Safecontractor accreditation is a statement of our belief that our people’s welfare is paramount.

The Africa Data Centres Association (ADCA) is the trade organization of data centres on the African continent. The ADCA unites leading data centres in the Africa with a common mission: the strengthening of economic growth and the profiling of the data centre sector to society, government and media.

Future-tech are recognised as approved partners for the delivery of The Certified Energy Efficient Datacenter Award (CEEDA®), which is an independently evaluated global certification programme designed to recognise the implementation of energy efficiency best practices in data centres. The CEEDA® framework is based on a combination of standards from: EN50600, ASHRAE, Energy Star, ISO and the European Code of Conduct among others.