A specialist interior office design company has a greater understanding of what an organisation’s future needs will be, and can put in place the most appropriate IT cooling and power management solutions for the organisation’s future growth.
And because it already has partnerships with organisations such as APC and Rittal, it is more likely to be able to save time and money by doing it right first time around.Let’s take a closer look at some of the costs involved. In addition to the cost of building walls and floors, the following costs have to be considered for interior office design:
- air conditioning, which might cost up to £15,000
- an extra £12,000 for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems.
- Communications for a data centre of 5-8 server racks would be around £10000, plus all your network costs
In total, that’s pretty close to £50,000, just for a medium-sized, server room facility. Now, you wouldn’t ask your facilities manager to design £50,000 worth of office, kitchen, or meeting room space because that’s just not what they do. So why would you ask your communications people to put their signature against that amount of money because they ‘do’ IT?
