Savills has appointed Marc Edmondson from Rider Levett Bucknal as a director in its London project management team.
Edmondson, who has more than 25 years’ experience in the design, construction and project management of data centres, will lead Savills’ data centre project management team, working with the company’s wider data centre experts across the UK and EMEA. He will be based in the firm’s Margaret Street head office in London.
Edmondson said: “I am delighted to have joined Savills as a senior director in this exciting area of expansion for Savills project management. [Some] 2,870 megawatts of new data centre capacity is currently under construction in EMEA, with nearly 64% of this capacity pre-let, largely to cloud providers and, increasingly, AI firms. The demand and supply fundamentals remain solid, driven by the exponential growth of data and the ongoing shortage of capacity to store and process it.”
Simon Collett, executive director and head of building and project consultancy at Savills, added: “We are delighted to welcome Marc to Savills. The data centre market is predicted to see significant expansion and with Marc’s focus and first-class pedigree in the sector, we will further increase our capability to service our clients moving forward.”
