All Wheel, No Progress: Clive’s Guide to Data Centre Construction

Everyone has finished. Unfortunately, the system hasn't.Welcome to data centre construction, where "by others" is the busiest contractor on site and the revised programme is always due tomorrow.Meet Clive: a fictional site hamster armed with a clipboard, a coffee and a healthy suspicion of the phrase "nearly complete".In All Wheel, No Progress, Stephen Carr combines practical project-delivery lessons with dry construction humour. From missing equipment interfaces and unsupported variations to commissioning delays and difficult conversations, Clive explores the habits that keep projects moving-and those that simply keep everyone busy.Inside this 72-page Data Centre Edition, you'll find: - Practical lessons on design, procurement, commercial control, programmes, commissioning and handover. - Clive's phrasebook: 88 familiar project expressions translated into what people might actually mean. - Five exercises with space to respond and pointers for checking your approach. - Ways to challenge costs, address missed commitments and escalate disagreements constructively. - "Try this tomorrow" prompts that turn observations into useful actions.Written for project managers, quantity surveyors, commercial managers, engineers, construction managers and commissioning teams, this is a book to read, share and reach for after another meeting about why nothing is moving.A knowing gift for a colleague-or a useful companion for your own site desk.One hamster. A hundred interfaces. Still waiting for the readiness sign-off.