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We are leaders. We take ownership, drive accountability and make decisions.

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Project Leadership

Out in front, from vision to delivery

We provide clear leadership that drives complex projects. We bring direction, structure, and calm assurance. We align teams and stakeholders around a shared goal. We generate the data to make informed decisions – from first vision to final delivery.

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Development Management

Turning technical ambition into deliverable reality

We manage the development of projects from vision through to execution. Coordinating technical expertise, interfaces, and requirements, we ensure technical ambition is matched by a clear, buildable, and deliverable path.

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Project Controls

Control, certainty, and momentum

We provide project controls built around strategic schedule leadership. We put programme at the heart of delivery – integrating cost, risk, and progress around it.

We give clients the clarity and control to anticipate challenges and keep projects moving with confidence.

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Design Management

Coordinated design, delivered with clarity

We manage the design process to keep it coordinated, efficient, and aligned to project goals. Collaboration is key and we empower collaboration to resolve interfaces. Our data drives decisions and we ensure design intent is protected and carried cleanly through to delivery.

We are Leaders, Advisers and Consultants.

We are specialists in delivering projects shaping our digital world.

We bring clarity.

We are 5DM.

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Sectors

Building our digital world though the interface between digital and physical infrastructure – takes more than ambition.

We bring clear leadership and match technical excellence with collaboration on every project – across three core sectors:

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energy

Data centres

Energy

Critical infrastructure

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
Belgium
Expertise:
Lead
80 MW

5DM acted within the Project Management Consultant team, undertaking Leadership and Owner’s Representative roles for the delivery of the first building on a new hyperscale data centre campus in southern Belgium. As the client’s leadership and technical authority, we were responsible for steering the project through procurement and into site construction. We provided Project Director and Design Interface leadership from site logistics through design review and engagement with the supply chain early to support constructability.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
Netherlands
Expertise:
Lead
160MW

5DM acted within the Project Management Consultant team, undertaking Owner’s Representative roles for the delivery of further buildings on an established hyperscale data centre campus in the Netherlands. As the client’s technical authority, we were responsible for steering the project through procurement and into site construction. We provided Design Interface leadership from site logistics through to design review, alongside early supply chain engagement to support constructability.

Recent projects

Location:
UK
6kms

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.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
Belgium
Expertise:
Lead
160MW

5DM acted within the Project Management Consultant team, undertaking Leadership and Owner’s Representative roles for the delivery of the second building on a new hyperscale data centre campus in southern Belgium. As the client’s leadership and technical authority, we were responsible for steering the project through procurement and into site construction. We provided Project Director and Design Interface leadership from site logistics through to design review, alongside early supply chain engagement to support constructability. With the second building developed in parallel to the first, we managed the added complexity of concurrent delivery — coordinating shared site setup, earthworks, and logistics across a live, active campus.

Recent projects

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.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
UK
Expertise:
Lead, Advise, Consult
80MW

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 in a complex tight Central London location.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
Norway
Expertise:
Lead, Consult
100MW

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.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
Germany
Expertise:
Lead, Advise
~200MW

5DM worked advising the developer and land owner on technical due diligence. The site required a complex review of permitting; site constraints and demolition to realise the data centre opportunity.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
Netherlands
Expertise:
Lead
80MW

5DM acted within the Project Management Consultant team, undertaking Owner’s Representative roles for the delivery of the next phase on an established hyperscale data centre campus in the Netherlands. As the client’s technical authority, we were responsible for steering the project through procurement and into site construction. We provided Design Interface leadership from site logistics through to design review, alongside early supply chain engagement to support constructability.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
USA
Expertise:
Lead, Advise
~1.5GW

5DM acted as Strategic Advisor and fulfilling senior technical (fractional CTO) support to the developer to bring the data center opportunity from initial vision to procurement and leadership of technical consultant team, contractor procurement and permitting. The site represents a significant AI Data Center campus opportunity with both utility grid and behind the meter (BTM) power strategies.

Recent projects

Sector:
Data Centres
Location:
Finland
Expertise:
Advise, Consult
~2GW

5DM acted as Strategic DD lead. We developed a blockfit and utility coordination to allow the client to understand the potential MW output.

Recent projects

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.