Based mostly in Lelystad – round half-hour from Amsterdam – the brand new service hub is the newest instance of AVK’s dedication to offering the very best ranges of in-country help for the rising variety of European information centres as they go stay and all through their operation.
By providing AVK’s European prospects a devoted, localised service infrastructure, the hub is designed to ship enhanced service responsiveness, improved logistics and stronger consumer partnerships in Europe’s burgeoning information centre market.
When the brand new service hub opens as scheduled in April this yr, firms working within the power and information infrastructure sector throughout Europe will instantly profit from the larger proximity of AVK service engineers to main information centres, making certain fast help and bettering operational efficiencies.
The Netherlands hub will include warehousing, important spares and administrative places of work for which employees recruitment is at the moment underway, together with for a European Service Supervisor. Plans are in place for AVK to develop its European presence even additional, with the subsequent new hub scheduled to be arrange later this yr in Frankfurt, adopted by different key places. There’s already a service workplace working in Dublin, Eire.
The creation of those new service hubs not solely illustrates AVK’s forward-thinking method to integrating native infrastructure but additionally underlines the corporate’s progress trajectory and its persevering with funding in operational excellence. The hubs additionally help AVK’s long-term plan to roll out its already profitable Academy program to offer additional coaching. AVK academies are devoted coaching hubs that play an important function in growing the subsequent technology of information centre engineers.
Says Lynsey Partlow, Service Director at AVK: “For a number of years, AVK has been increasing its service operations throughout European territories as a mirrored image of the numerous variety of new information centres which have been created. From this summer time, we count on to see much more information centres commissioned and going stay all through the area, and it’s important that AVK has an energetic in-country service footprint that allows us to help our companions proactively as they develop.”
Lynsey provides: “Organising these strategic service hubs will assist us enormously with our provide chains, {our relationships} with shoppers and our discipline supply. As an alternative of locally-based employees counting on our service infrastructure within the UK, having a European infrastructure will make a large distinction to how we help the rising numbers of shoppers establishing new information centres throughout the continent.”
Trying even additional forward, Lynsey reveals a number of extra developments within the pipeline for AVK. For instance, AVK technicians are to hold out the service and upkeep of selective catalytic discount (SCR) programs that the corporate installs in information centres to minimise dangerous emissions from diesel-powered backup turbines.
