04Design & Engineering
The white space,
where your IT lives.
Rack layout, containment, cable routing, and power and cooling integration, designed and installed so the hall runs efficiently now and scales for what comes next.
- Rack layout
- Hot and cold aisles
- Containment
- Busbar and PDUs
- Cooling integration
01Overview
Laid out for density, built to scale.
White space is where your IT equipment actually sits. How it is designed and built decides power density, cooling efficiency and how easy the space is to operate and maintain day to day.
We design and install white space that makes the most of the floor: rack placement, airflow, power distribution and cable routing. New build or retrofit, the result works well now and scales for what comes next.
What you get
- Optimised rack layout and placement
- Hot and cold aisle configuration
- Effective cable management
- Room to grow
- Better cooling and airflow
- Standards-compliant installation
02Airflow
What containment does to the airflow.
Cold supply air should reach the rack inlets, and hot exhaust should go straight back to the cooling units. Switch containment on and off in this illustrative section through a pair of rows to see the difference.
Illustrative section: airflow paths are simplified to show the principle, not modelled for a real hall.
03What's included
Everything in the white space.
New build or retrofit, we design the layout and install what goes into it, so what gets built matches what was designed.
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Layout design and planning
Rack placement, hot and cold aisle configuration and density planning, designed to maximise usable capacity and operational efficiency from the outset.
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Rack installation
Server racks, cabinets and supporting infrastructure installed aligned, spaced and secured to your specification.
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Containment systems
Hot or cold aisle containment that separates the airflows, improves cooling performance and reduces energy use across the hall.
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Power and cooling integration
PDUs, busbar, cooling units and monitoring integrated into the layout, so everything works together as designed.
04How we deliver
From a drawing to a working hall.
Send us a drawing and we can return a costed design in under 48 hours. Whitespace Builder, our in-house tool, produces the 3D model, the 2D drawings and the counts from one model.
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Survey and brief
Floor, structure, power, cooling and density targets captured, with the constraints.
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Layout
Rack positions, aisle orientation and containment chosen; power and data pathways routed.
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Costed design
A model-derived design with drawings and counts, ready to price and review.
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Install
Racks positioned, levelled and bonded; containment, power and cable management fitted.
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Check and hand over
The installation checked against the design and documented.
05At a glance
Specification
- Layout
- Rack placement, hot and cold aisles, density planning
- Containment
- Hot or cold aisle, with doors, roofs and blanking
- Power
- Rack PDUs and busbar
- Cooling
- Cooling units and airflow management, liquid-ready where needed
- Cabling
- Overhead or underfloor pathways and cable management
- Design turnaround
- A costed design from your drawing in under 48 hours
- Scope
- New builds and retrofits
06Questions
Common questions
Hot aisle or cold aisle containment?
Both separate supply and exhaust air. Cold aisle containment is often simpler to retrofit into an existing room; hot aisle containment returns hot air straight to the cooling units and keeps the rest of the room cool. The right choice depends on the room, the cooling system and the density.
Raised floor or slab?
A raised floor delivers cooling through perforated tiles and hides cabling, but limits floor loading and airflow at high densities. A slab floor with overhead power and cabling suits heavier, denser racks. Our white space guide covers the trade-offs.
Can you design for high-density and AI racks?
Yes. We plan for the density you need on day one and in the years after: power to the rack, containment, pods of mixed density and space for liquid cooling. See our AI and GPU data hall guide.
How quickly can we see a design?
Send us a drawing and we can return a costed, model-derived design in under 48 hours.
White space
Send us the floor plan.
Talk to our design team about a new hall, a retrofit or a change of density. We typically respond within one business day.