Norland ramp up design, build and operate service for critical environments

Norland’s Critical Environment Services team is a specialist team of experts working with data centres and large enterprises to support their business-critical, high-risk operations with 24/7 technical support. Norland already conduct significant fit-out work and project manages large capital works for some of the world’s most prestigious data centres and, only this year, completed the first stage fit-out of a 11,475 sq ft facility on the Cobalt Data Centre Campus.

In recognition of his significant industry expertise, Norland has promoted one of its existing Head of Projects, Robert Giles, into the role. Norland has created the Construction Director role to bring focus and definition to the design and build offer and to extend its services in this area. With more than 15 years experience in construction and property development, Robert has been with Norland for over 2 years and has been the lead on many of the company’s major projects including the work with Cobalt. A true professional Robert has a comprehensive track record of over achievement in his roles to date, which has seen him earn a reputation for managing teams that deliver complex projects whilst exceeding customer’s expectations. Robert is a customer focused, enthusiastic management professional who has a sound background in critical systems and is experienced in managing construction delivery teams.

Tony Smith, Managing Director of Norland’s CES division said: “Robert brings a wealth of experience in design and build which will mean we can really take advantage of the many opportunities we are seeing. The new role will be instrumental in growing our critical construction management services with both new and existing customers and fuel our continued growth in this market place”

The design, build and operate service will dovetail with CE360, Norland’s award-winning white-space management solution which includes a bespoke set of critical environment-specific risk mitigation processes and procedures known as CERM™ as well as ICT infrastructure, Professional Services and more general FM capabilities.

Robert said: “I look forward to demonstrating the customer benefits of a converged approach between construction, ICT infrastructure fit-out and facilities management services. Norland is in a pivotal position to define the standard to which high-availability data centre services are created and delivered.”