• Question: What is your specific field of work (what type of engineer)?`

    Asked by MichaelaF on 10 Dec 2021.
    • Photo: Kamran Lateef

      Kamran Lateef answered on 30 Nov 2021:

      Hi there!

      I have an IT engineering background centered in Computing and Information Systems. Data Centers are supported by Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, additionally engineers that look after control systems like building management systems, power monitoring systems… All so that services to end customers (web sites, e-commerce providers, ATMs, schools) stay on and perform well.

    • Photo: Steve Wright

      Steve Wright answered on 1 Dec 2021:

      My role is split between the IT side (computers and networks), and the buildings side (Mechanical and Electrical).

      Both have major areas have different challenges, but its really useful to sometimes bring something from one side to the other that hasn’t been thought of before!

    • Photo: Jordan Galloway

      Jordan Galloway answered on 1 Dec 2021:

      I am mainly a mechanical engineer for data centres, I work on the master planning for sites, the building cooling and ventilation systems and try to keep the energy use as low as possible.

    • Photo: Andy Putnam

      Andy Putnam answered on 2 Dec 2021:

      I am a qualified electrical engineer, but my specific area of work is now in the project management of the data centres we build. Having an industrial electrical background allows me to understand how long things take to get done, and then experience on other systems and understanding how they work, means i have a good overall experience to be good at my job.

    • Photo: Steve Bowes-Phipps

      Steve Bowes-Phipps answered on 2 Dec 2021:

      I am a consultant and so I work with mostly electrical and mechanical engineers and I need to understand their job in order to work well with them

    • Photo: Femi Olushola

      Femi Olushola answered on 6 Dec 2021:

      I am an electrical power engineer involved in building and designing electrical power systems. You would not happen to be a descendant of Michael Faraday would you? 🙂 (a little joke there 😀 )

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