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WSP and kW MCE: Matching Global Reach with the United States’ Leading Mission Critical Engineering Practice

Aligned with WSP’s 2019-2021 Global Strategic Plan, combining kW’s mission critical expertise and 175 employees with WSP’s global footprint means we can now offer best-in-class mission critical engineering services to our clients throughout the US and worldwide. In addition, joining with kW expands WSP’s reach to new locations in the US, including Troy, NY and Milwaukee, WI, while strengthening the firm’s presence in Atlanta, GA and Phoenix, AZ.

“By adding kW to the WSP family in the US, we have created a strong foothold in this fast-growing sector that would have taken several years and significant investment to come by organically,” noted Lou Cornell, President and Chief Executive Officer of WSP USA.

“We’ve always been about hiring great people, giving them a great place to work and develop their careers, and delivering great projects and service to our clients,” said James Warren, co-founder of kW MCE.

“Teaming with fellow engineers on a global scale allows us to continue our growth plan, offer opportunities to our employees, and better support the expansion goals of our partners and clients,” added Chris Kurkjian, co-founder of kW MCE.

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kW MCE is leading the U.S. in data center engineering for colocation and hyperscale clients. From multiple-building data center campus master planning to multi-story, 70+ megawatt facilities, kW MCE supports colo providers and their tenants by leveraging experience to enhance competitive advantage, as well as reducing construction cost and duration. The firm has designed more than 40 greenfield data centers over the last two years for a variety of data center clients, utilizing in-house expertise and their clients’ experiences to masterplan and deliver custom solutions. When the mission is hyperscale, kW MCE collaborates with many of the largest global cloud providers to align components and systems to various clients’ standards and in turn drives down cost while simplifying delivery.

kW MCE also excels at providing valuable consulting to enterprise clients – explaining the advantages and disadvantages of everything data center and assisting in weighing the pros and cons of infrastructure decisions. When designing and building new is not a cost-effective solution, kW taps into decades of expertise in renovation, capacity expansion, electrical studies and more to provide clients with upgrades in live data center environments with no unscheduled downtime.

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ABOUT kW MCE

  • Approximately 175 employees
  • Headquartered in Troy, NY, with additional offices in Milwaukee, WI; Atlanta, GA; and Phoenix, AZ
  • Largest pure-play mission critical engineering firm in North America
  • Provides strategic planning, engineering design, and assessments for mission critical facilities for enterprise, financial, technology, university and co-location data centers
  • Has completed over 1,000 mission critical projects worldwide