Savills has expanded its London project management team, part of building & project consultancy (BPC), with the appointment of Marc Edmondson who joins as a director at the firm’s Margaret Street head office in London.
Marc has over 25 years’ experience in the design, construction and project management of data centres in the UK and EMEA. He joins from Rider Levett Bucknall where he was a Partner.
At Savills, Marc will lead the firm’s data centre project management team, working with the company’s wider data centre experts across the UK and EMEA, ranging from planning to capital advisory.
Marc Edmondson comments: “I am delighted to have joined Savills as a senior director in this exciting area of expansion for Savills project management. 2,870 megawatts of new data centre capacity is currently under construction in EMEA, with nearly 64% of this capacity pre-let, largely to cloud providers and, increasingly, AI firms. The demand and supply fundamentals remain solid, driven by the exponential growth of data and the ongoing shortage of capacity to store and process it.”
Simon Collett, Executive Director and head of BPC at Savills adds: “We are delighted to welcome Marc to Savills. The data centre market is predicted to see significant expansion and with Marc’s focus and first-class pedigree in the sector, we will further increase our capability to service our clients moving forward.”