If you are looking at buildings as potential data centres, or even as offices, DCS can survey the building including its mechanical and electrical plant and provide a detailed report highlighting the good and bad points from an IT perspective. This is very useful when creating a short list of sites for a new data centre.

The survey looks at Mechanical and electrical systems:
• Age of system
• Functionality
• Resilience
• Maintenance regime
• Scalability and flexibility
• Capacity
• Remaining serviceable life
• Power supplies
• UPS, generator/s and transformers
• Wiring
• Risk
• Hidden costs

The survey also looks at the Building:
• Location
• Risk
• Structural survey
• Cable routes
• Resilience
• Security
• Viability for use as a data centre
• IT related issues (If used as an office)
• Hidden costs
• Delivery routes including goods lift
• Adjacencies
• Floor loadings
• Risks
• Security
• Room sizes
• Diverse cable routes