
Name: Tony Playford
Company: Atlas Edge
Job Title: Senior Design Manager
Tony has a wealth of experience in data centre design, delivery and project lead roles through construction to practical completion with Uptime Institute accreditation. His project and mechanical lead roles include a number of 10–40MW data centres located across the UK, Europe and the Middle East for a variety of IT, colocation and banking clients, looking after multi-disciplinary teams of up to 15.
He has been line manager for several mechanical engineers and actively involved in recruitment. He has also been involved in the development of several in-house systems including standard specifications and financial software. He is heavily involved in business development and has also worked on several bids for a variety of clients around Europe and the Middle East.
Tony has significant experience as a designer and coordinator and has successfully managed multi-discipline projects from inception to completion for a variety of clients. Tony’s experience includes the design and delivery of a wide range of facilities including MEP systems for data centres, high tech office, rail, local authority, airport and residential sectors. With 18 years post graduate experience in design, project, and lead roles, he has significant knowledge of a wide range of systems and sectors. His commercial project lead roles include mixed use developments of between £250m & £2b in construction value, taken from Stage 3 & 4 through to construction.