Before you commit design money: what envelope does the building you already have actually give you?
Your situation
A conversion or extension decision is made early and cheaply, then paid for late and expensively. The envelope of the existing building, meaning what it can distribute and reject at the density you intend, is the input that decides whether the scheme works.
A new grid connection can be years away in some markets, which makes the capacity of what already exists the near-term asset. A design team will find the limits eventually; the value of finding them first is in the price you pay for the site and the programme you commit to.
A screen is not a design. Its job is to tell you which constraints a design will have to relieve and roughly in which order, so the scoping of the design package is not a guess.
The decision this informs
Whether to proceed with a facility, which relief to scope into the design brief, and which long-lead items to start early.
THE FIRST QUESTIONWhat does this building let me deliver at the density I intend, and what has to be relieved first?
What you probably already have
- The facility's as-built or concept electrical and mechanical description
- The planned platform and the target density
- The utility's connection offer or position, where there is one
The constraints most likely to decide your answer
- Firm supply (grid import and behind-the-meter)
Contracted import and what can be relied on in contingency are different, and the gap is a design driver.
In core European metros the grid connection is the asset, and it is not growing before the 2030s.
- Transformer capacity
Long-lead equipment that should be ordered, or ruled out, before the design is complete.
The transformer is rarely the tightest constraint and is usually the one that sets the date.
- Floor loading
Liquid-cooled racks are heavy, and a slab that cannot take them is not a retrofit item.
A fully populated AI rack weighs around 1.4 tonnes and a Rated-3 raised floor was designed for about 1,220 kg/m².
The route through what can be bought
It starts free and each step credits or informs the next; none is required. Prices are read from the live catalogue.
- Free capacity checkFree, no card
A first read from a handful of figures, before any engineer's time is spent.
- Density Screen€4,500
5 working days from a complete intake
A defined first deliverable for a defined fee, to decide whether to commission more.
- Capacity & Density Envelope Study — deposit€9,000 deposit; opens a scoped engagement priced at €22,000 to €45,000
The full ladder with time to power and economics, as the input to the design brief.
What to ask us before you rely on the answer
- Which constraints in the result depend on a library default instead of the facility's own data?
- Which relief is long-lead, and is its lead time a range from a library or a figure someone quoted?
- What would the design team have to confirm to raise the result's evidence class?
What it is not
- It does not replace a design, a structural survey or a utility application, and it must not be filed as one.
- It does not forecast a connection date. A date it shows is a modelled date with its assumed lead times named.
Time to Power sells no equipment, holds no inventory and owns no megawatts. A figure is modelled unless its evidence class says otherwise, and a date that rests on an assumed lead time is labelled as one.