Expertise Across the Data Centre Life Cycle DIGITAL REPORT 2021
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Mercury’s Alan Clinton, Operations Director, Data Centres and Building Services, on the company’s data centre offering and its COVID-19 response
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lan Clinton is the Operations Director for Data Centres and Building Services at construction firm Mercury, a company he first joined in 2007. He now leads a fast growing department providing for the ongoing data centre construction boom. “I lead the delivery of data centre and building services projects across Europe,” says Clinton. “That covers every aspect of our day-to-day operations, including people management, supply-chain management, client relationship management and more.” Having been founded in 1972, Mercury has developed a reputation as an experienced hand, and that’s no different for its offering in the mission critical sector. “Mercury is one of Europe’s most experienced hyperscale and enterprise data centre service providers,” says Clinton. “We provide highly complex engineering services to our clients, with very high levels of safety, quality, 4
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Superior compliance in construction Group Management’s Steve Cressey on a uniquely collaborative partnership with Mercury Engineering and almost 15 years of compliant construction projects Group Management Electrical Surveys is a long-standing and vital partner to Mercury Engineering. The company offers an innovative suite of electrical inspection, test and documentation services to ensure compliance in complex major construction projects for many of the UK and EU’s leading companies. No project can achieve handover without the correct documentation and safety critical electrical certification in place,” says Managing Director Steve Cressey. “Our services ensure that project critical documentation and certification can be correctly produced in an efficient, cost effective manner, which makes Group Management an important part of any construction project.” Cressey joined the business in 2009, bringing strong and incisive leadership to Group Management, with decades of industry experience giving him a unique understanding of the design through to handover construction process. He has stewarded the business’ partnership with Mercury since its inception and describes it as uniquely collaborative. “The partnership is longstanding, and we’ve built an incredibly strong working relationship,” Cressey says. “Partnering with Mercury, who are an innovative, cutting-edge technology
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provider, means we must constantly improve our services offering. We strive to be the best in what we do, and Mercury can trust we will be efficient in delivering on time, on budget, to achieve a successful handover that meets both Mercury’s and the end clients’ future needs.” Group Management has since completed more than 30 Data Centre projects throughout the EU as Mercury’s preferred electrical compliance partner, as well as pharmaceutical projects, and new hospitals in the UK & Ireland. “To ensure the continued success and growth of Group Management we always discuss projects with key clients and their teams, take feedback on the performance of both our business and our individuals, and in turn use that to improve our services,” Cressey says. “We now offer four more services to Mercury than when the partnership began, which has helped spur Group Management’s growth and success within the wider market.”
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innovation and value engineering.” Mercury’s expertise covers the full data centre life cycle. “We look after every stage of the project, from design & build, planning and construction right through to commissioning, ongoing facilities management and ICT services.” As data centres have proliferated, their impact on the planet in terms of energy 8
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has become apparent. It's with this in mind that Mercury has set concrete goals for its sustainability efforts. “At Mercury, we believe that it’s everyone’s duty to play their part to improve the quality of life on our planet,” says Clinton. “This year, we launched ‘Our Planet, Our Duty’, a 50-page document which sets out our sustainability plan. One of the
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most important goals we have set is to reduce our Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emission intensity by 50% by 2030.” As with all companies globally, Mercury has not been unaffected by COVID-19, but it has been successful in minimising disruption to clients. “We’ve been very fortunate in that we’ve been able to continue to work very successfully during
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Alan is the Operations Director for Mercury’s Data Centres & Building Services business unit, which delivers projects across Ireland, the UK & Europe. Alan has overall responsibility for the business unit and the most important aspect of this to ensure we exceed our clients’ expectations. This is achieved through leadership ensuring success. Alan has been working in the construction industry for over 24 years with experience in sectors such as Data Centres, Healthcare, Retail, Office & Commercial, Manufacturing and Residential and has spent the last 12 years mainly focused on the data centre industry.
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the COVID-19 pandemic, with very little impact to our clients,” says Clinton. “Our main success has been without a doubt down to the efforts of our teams. The impact of COVID-19 on the ability of staff to travel has of course been a challenge, but because we have invested so much in technology and our digital transformation over the last several years, we have largely
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been able to continue without major impacts to our business.” The company’s digital capabilities have also been crucial, as Clinton explains: “We have been able to conduct quality audits, factory acceptance tests and more virtually. Our use of BIM, Virtual Realty, Mixed Realty and more have been of huge benefit to us. Our flexible supply chain and multinational staff have also helped us to continue working across all of our different geographic locations.”
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“ Whether it’s with our colleagues on site, our clients, our supply-chain partners or other Mercury staff across the globe, we all can learn from each other and benefit” ALAN CLINTON
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Clinton credits the company’s culture as having been critical to its response to the pandemic. “Collaboration and communication are some of the most important things to us at Mercury. Whether it’s with our colleagues on site, our clients, our supply-chain partners or other Mercury staff across the globe, we all can learn from each other and benefit. During this pandemic it was even more important for us to make sure we're communicating with everybody – particularly our staff to ensure their mental health and wellbeing.” It’s thanks to that mindset that the business has been able to weather the storm and be stronger for it. “Obviously it was a challenging year, and circumstances continue to be
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challenging. But our clients and our supply chain and our team have all combined to help us to continue our business with very little impact. We really have great people working in this industry to keep things going in the ways they have.” The pandemic has, however, had the effect of accelerating pre-existing trends going forwards. “A major trend now that Mercury is looking more and more at is the delivery of data centres using modern methods of construction such as offsite manufacturing,” says Clinton. “There are major benefits to the client for delivering
“ A major trend now that Mercury is looking more and more at is the delivery of data centres using modern methods of construction such as offsite manufacturing” ALAN CLINTON
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“We are continuing to refine our service offering, playing to our strengths, while putting our clients’ changing needs at the heart of our innovation in how we deliver” ALAN CLINTON
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project elements offsite, such as cost and programme certainty, higher levels of safety, quality, efficiency, and reduced impact to the environment. Our focus on digital transformation over the last number of years is enabling us to deliver more this way – and obviously benefiting our clients.” The company now stands ready to thrive as it heads into the future. “Last year, Mercury released our latest strategy, Beyond50, a five year plan that aims to take our company beyond its 50th anniversary next year. We are continuing to refine our service offering, playing to our strengths, while putting our clients’ changing needs at the heart of our innovation in how we deliver,” says Clinton. That strategy is as comprehensive and holistic as the company’s ambition. “Our strategy covers everything from further strategically developing our service and market offering to continuously ensuring that we remain leaders in safety, people, digital transformation, the use of offsite manufacturing, quality, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, while continuing to develop our winning culture.”
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