The award-winning Zaha Hadid Architects practice is renowned globally for its innovative design and iconic buildings, including the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 London Olympics and the Guangzhou Opera House in China.

The practice wanted to ensure that systems were running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the required levels of performance and resilience in the event of an emergency, such as loss of power supply. With the firm’s expansion to a second site in London at nearby Goswell Road, an opportunity arose to update its IT infrastructure.