Consult

Civil Engineering

Sites unlocked

We provide civil and infrastructure engineering across the full project lifecycle, with particular strength in the coordination of below-ground infrastructure. We manage the interfaces, constraints, and complexity beneath the surface to ensure successful delivery.

Structual Engineering

Efficient. Coordinated.

We bring a technical and pragmatic engineering capability to every structural challenge. Combining analytical rigour with buildable, real-world solutions, we translate ambitious design into resilient structures — balancing integrity, efficiency, and deliverability at every stage.

Information Management

Data. Access. Control.

Rigorous data and information management is fundamental to running projects effectively. Working to ISO 19650, we establish the structures, standards, and processes that keep information accurate, accessible, and controlled — ensuring the right people have the right information to make the right decisions.

5DM is responsible for the strategy and detailed design of a water reuse project — a significant scheme in terms of sustainability and water efficiency within the data centre sector. Our services span hydraulic design and civil engineering, including route evaluation and 3D coordination with existing utilities across highly congested London roads. By resolving complex interfaces below ground and optimising the route through constrained urban infrastructure, we are helping deliver a solution that supports increasing water use efficiency.

Sector:

Data Centres

Location:

Norway

Expertise:

Lead, Consult

12MW

5DM worked as an extension to the developer client team, developing the project from Technical Due Diligence, through consultant selection and into design delivery. Coordinating between Developer, land owner, power application & consultant team, 5DM worked to unlock capacity to a fast track delivery project.

Sector:

Data Centres

Location:

Expertise:

Lead, Advise, Consult

80MW

Sector:

Data Centres

Location:

Norway

Expertise:

Lead, Consult

100MW

Sector:

Data Centres

Location:

Germany

Expertise:

Lead, Advise, Consult

700MW

5DM worked closely with the developer client team, unlocking the potential of the site from Technical Due Diligence, through consultant selection and into design delivery. Coordinating between Developer, land owner, power application & consultant team, 5DM worked to unlock capacity and bring clarity in a complex site.

Sector:

Energy

Location:

Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, UK

Expertise:

Lead, Consult

130 MVA

5DM has undertaken Civil Engineering and Electrical Owner’s Representative roles for the development of HV substations from 380kV to 33kV.

Sector:

Data Centres

Location:

Finland

Expertise:

Lead, Consult

265MW

5DM Lead the civil engineering for this campus – designing and coordinating the below ground utilities, earthworks strategy and drainage

We are engineers and designers. We recognise that technical excellence is critical and great engineering changes what’s possible.

Civil Engineering

We provide civil and infrastructure engineering across the full project lifecycle, with particular strength in the coordination of below-ground infrastructure. We manage the interfaces, constraints, and complexity beneath the surface to ensure successful delivery.

Structual Engineering

We bring a technical and pragmatic engineering capability to every structural challenge. Combining analytical rigour with buildable, real-world solutions, we translate ambitious design into resilient structures — balancing integrity, efficiency, and deliverability at every stage.

Information Management

Masterplanning

We bring structure and vision to how sites and schemes take shape. We balance constraints, opportunities, and long-term ambition, our master planning sets the framework for coordinated, deliverable, and future-ready development.

We are Leaders, Advisers and Consultants.

We are specialists in delivering projects shaping our digital world.

We bring clarity.

We are 5DM.

Sectors

Data centres

Energy

Critical infrastructure