case study
COUNCIL BENEFITS
A long term collaboration between Emcor UK and Woking Borough Council utilising the latest advances
in digital technology is resulting in the local community benefiting from essential information and services.
Russell Drury reports.
E
mcor UK and Woking
Borough Council have
had a collaborative
business relationship
for over 20 years. A
key foundation to the success of the
partnership is the council’s stated
desire to continually improve the
lives of its 100,000 residents and
local businesses through technology.
As a result, the council has been at
the forefront of the public sector in
recognising the importance of digital
technology to the delivery of its
ambitious service goals. Accordingly,
Woking Borough Council developed
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a strategy aimed at harnessing what
it felt were the most appropriate
technological advances in the digital
sphere. An important milestone in this
plan was asking Emcor UK to design,
install, and connect a new, bespoke
data centre, capable of future
proofing, to the extent possible, the
council’s needs.
Woking: Helping lead data
centre innovation
A key to success of the design and
delivery of the council’s data centre
was to obtain a comprehensive
understanding of their service
ambitions and how it saw technology
as facilitating the most effective way of
achieving these goals. After in-depth
consultation with all stakeholders,
Emcor UK presented Woking Borough
Council the recommended, latest, and
most relevant developments in digital
technology. As such, the council could
see the extent of what was possible,
as well as the positive impact it could
have on residents and businesses.
After discussion and approvals,
Emcor UK set about the design and
delivery of the data centre, tailored
to the needs of the council and local
residents and businesses.