Built to a design, not around one.
Planning, rack layouts, structured cabling, and equipment installation. WAM surveys and designs; specialist partners build, cable, and commission to that design under our oversight; you receive the as-builts.
What it covers.
Planning and architectural design
Room layout, power, cooling, floor loading, and cable pathways worked out from a survey of the space you have — or the space you are about to sign for — before anything is specified.
Rack layouts, racks, and PDUs
Rack elevations drawn unit by unit, with power distribution sized for the load and the growth you actually expect, so the third rack does not trip the first breaker.
Structured cabling
Copper and fibre designed as a system: pathways, patch panels, a labelling scheme, and a schedule every cable is installed, tested, and certified against.
Patch-panel and cable management
The part that decides whether the room is maintainable in three years. Designed in, not tidied up afterwards.
Fibre splicing and certification
Splicing and termination by specialist partners, certified to the standard the design names, with the results handed over rather than summarised.
Equipment installation and commissioning
Server, storage, and network hardware racked, cabled, and powered to the elevations; virtualisation, operating systems, and base configuration commissioned and documented.
How we approach it.
Survey before drawing
Power available versus power needed, cooling capacity, floor loading, pathway routes, and the constraints nobody wrote down. The design is only as good as the survey it came from, so the survey comes first and is written up.
The design is a set of documents
Floor plan, rack elevations, cabling design, labelling schedule, and power plan — vendor-neutral, and yours to take to any contractor if you decide to build it without us.
Built by partners, inspected by WAM
Specialist delivery partners install, cable, and terminate to the design. WAM runs the project, inspects at each milestone against the drawings, and says no when work does not meet them.
Certified, labelled, handed over
Every cable certified and labelled to the schedule, every rack matching its elevation, and an asset register that matches what is actually in the room. Handed over at commissioning, not promised for later.
Who does what.
WAM scopes, designs, and leads; specialist delivery partners carry out the physical work to our design and under our project management. These are the stages that carry the weight on this pillar.
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Survey and assessment
Technical survey, site assessment, inventory, power, cooling and capacity review, and the constraints nobody wrote down. Ends with a written picture of what you actually have.
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Design and specification
Architecture, rack layouts, cabling design, network topology, equipment specification, and the runbooks a migration or DR cutover will be executed from. Vendor-neutral, and yours to take elsewhere if you want.
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Delivery and oversight
Partners install, cable, re-rack, migrate. WAM runs project management, change control, milestone tracking, and inspection against the design — including saying no when work doesn't meet it.
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Commissioning and handover
Acceptance testing, cable certification, failover testing where it applies. You receive as-built documentation, labelling schedules and an asset register — handed over, not promised.
Containment is part of the design.
Where cable runs, how it is supported, and how the next person adds to it are decided on the drawing. Retrofitting that after the fact is what turns a room into a knot.
What you receive.
Handed over at commissioning, not promised for later.
- Site survey reportFloor plan and rack elevationsCabling design and labelling schedulePower and cooling planCable certification resultsAsset registerAs-built documentation
Straight answers.
Do you build it yourselves?
No. WAM surveys the site, produces the design, and leads the project. Specialist delivery partners carry out the installation — racks, cabling, termination, equipment — to that design under our project management, and WAM inspects the work against the drawings before you accept it.
Do you supply the racks and equipment?
We specify and procure against the design during sourcing, but we do not resell hardware and hold no vendor quota. Equipment is chosen for what the room needs. If you already have a supplier, the specification is written so they can quote against it.
Can you work in a room that is already live?
Yes, and it is the common case. Work is staged and scheduled around your operating windows, with the sequence written into the plan. Where a step needs an outage we say so in advance rather than finding out on the day.
Is the cabling certified?
Yes. Copper and fibre are tested and certified to the standard the design names, by the partners who install it, and the results are reviewed by WAM and handed over with the as-builts. Cabling that has not been certified has not been finished.
How long does a build take?
It depends on the room, the power and cooling situation, and how much of the work can happen while you are running. That is what the survey establishes, so we do not quote a duration before it. What you get before committing is a scoped plan with the stages and their gates.
Start with the survey.
Send us the floor plan, or a photo of the room as it is. A senior engineer replies within two business days.