Fabrication: The Hidden Engine Behind Future-Ready Data Centres
Speed, precision and resilience all depend highly on one thing: fabrication. As demand for AI-ready modular infrastructure continues to surge, the ability to control how and where your data centre components are fabricated is becoming a major strategic advantage.
Fabrication Is Foundational
Data centres are no longer built. They’re assembled. The quality, consistency and pace of this assembly depend on how well your fabrication process is managed.
It defines the structural integrity, layout precision and overall reliability of your data centre infrastructure. From frames and enclosures to cable containment and busbar systems, high-quality fabrication ensures every component fits, performs and lasts.
When fabrication is handled incorrectly delays multiply, tolerances slip and control is lost. But when it’s tightly managed or brought in-house this outcome can change.
Better fabrication means fewer surprises, faster deployment and infrastructure you can count on.
The Cost of Outsourcing
Outsourcing can be a valuable decision in the critical power industry, giving you the time and space to focus on your niche and build future-proof solutions. But that doesn’t mean it’s without its problems.
Outsourced fabrication can mean longer lead times, inconsistent build quality and reactive problem-solving when errors surface on site. In a sector where deployment timelines are shrinking, those delays are more than inconvenient; they’re expensive.
We’ve seen it happen:
- Delayed steel fabrication pushing back critical infrastructure installations
- Poor panel tolerances creating knock-on delays in on-site commissioning
- Logistics bottlenecks caused by fragmented subcontracting across supply chains
The Power of Bringing It In House
When you own the fabrication process, you own the outcome.Durata’s investment in in-house fabrication gives us full control — from design to delivery. That means:
- Tighter quality control
- Faster build schedules
- Real-time design adjustments
- More consistent integration with electrical and mechanical systems
Durata’s recent acquisition of Tolley’s Fabrication brings our own processes in-house and is a testament to our dedication to enhancing quality control, streamlining operations and delivering scalable, high-performance data centre solutions with unprecedented speed and agility to an international client base. Tolley’s Fabrication will now rebrand to Durata Fabrication, highlighting a bright future for both businesses!
Fabrication = Future-Proofing
As data infrastructure demands more power, density and complexity, the agility to adapt quickly is essential. In-house fabrication allows us to rapidly scale and customise builds without waiting on third-party timelines or limitations.
It’s about building faster and smarter.
We design, fabricate and deliver the end result. Made in Britain to the highest global standards.
Let’s build it right, from the ground up.
