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Damian Farr , Managing Director Europe at DPR Construction , on the company ’ s technological and collaborative approach to data centre construction
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PR Construction is a global specialist in technical construction , working in five core markets – advanced technology , commercial , healthcare , higher education and life sciences . Damian Farr is Europe Managing Director at the company . “ We ’ re proud builders ,” he says . “ Fundamentally , I think we understand that construction is a service industry . We ’ re striving to be an extension of our customers ’ organisations by putting their projects and end goals first , and always thinking about how they need to use the building .”
DPR is playing a big part in fulfilling the ever growing need for data centres , as Farr explains , “ In the last four to five years we ’ ve built close to $ 3.5bn of mission critical facilities across 200 separate projects , but our data centre heritage stretches right back to our founding .” DPR has grown rapidly since its foundation in Silicon Valley in 1990 and is now one of the 10 largest general builders in the US . “ In those 30 years , something very special has happened , which is the idea that everybody ’ s working together to achieve the same thing : we exist to build great things – not just great buildings , but people and relationships as well . It ’ s an idea that ’ s very sincerely held throughout the business .”
AUGUST 2020