CHAYORA
“ We have regular meetings [...] where we synchronise and talk about how the technology is evolving and how we as a facility provider can support it ”
TIGER ZHAO OPERATIONS DIRECTOR , CHAYORA
Way commitments of ‘ DOING WHAT YOU PROMISE ’ and ‘ ACTING WITH PASSION ’ were everything to this team . Combined with support from Vertiv , Cummins , Qian and CEFOC as primary and general contractors alongside H3C as designers , Bohan as Project Managers , and Turner and Townsend as Commercial Managers , the team were able to deliver what at first appeared an impossible task . With very active guidance from the Founders , often through
Zoom from multiple locations the team delivered ! What ’ s more , the same team has now raised its ambitions further and has a much larger and more complex programme of work ahead and due to be delivered with over US $ 900m of capital expenditure planned over the next 24 months leveraging an ever more experienced team and platform .
The complexities of growing a Data Centre platform in China are extensive . Whether regulatory compliance , buying land , getting government support , creating an execution and operations platform , negotiating power and network agreements , and much more all serve to make China one of the most challenging global markets . Chayora was set up to be an expert enabling and operating organisation and where others have used local partners , Chayora decided that it needed to understand and to be able to execute each and every intricate detail . From negotiating investment and supply agreements to buying land in government auctions , to securing the more than 100 permits necessary for the progress to date , merely constructing a Data Centre now seems ‘ easy ’ and yet ensuring that it delivers authentically to the design standards set out has meant that attention to detail from everyone has been essential : from the board directors to construction site labourers and critical facilities managers . No aspect has
348 April 2021