Lead Architectural Engineer Data Centres

35 years ago, Jan started working as an Architectural Engineer at a company that later became part of Royal Haskoning

DHV. He travelled all around the world for his projects: from China and Mexico to Finland and Ghana. Curious what it is about his work at Royal Haskoning

DHV that makes him still enjoy it after all those years? Then keep on reading!

When you work on a project, you always do this in multidisciplinary teams. And these teams are different per project, so you get to know a lot of people.

As an Architectural Engineer you usually take care of the preliminary design, the final design and the specifications with tender documents. But sometimes you do more than that, such as drawing up a programme of requirements on behalf of the client. This answers questions such as what is the purpose of the building, what functions should be in the building, how big should it be and where should it be located?

And after the tender, you are sometimes also involved in the execution phase in the form of checks or construction management.

Depending on the size of the project, you work in the architectural design team, usually together with an architect, architectural engineer and a few modelers who put all the information in a 3D model. And do you like modelling yourself? Then you can of course also do both.

More and more attention is being paid to sustainability in the projects. As an Architectural Engineer you do not certainly have to be a specialist on this topic, but you do have to know something about it since you have to include it in your projects. Circularity is part of sustainability: making a design in such a way that you can reuse its parts in a subsequent project.

But you can also think of using sustainable materials and opting for green roofs and green facades.

Then our global data centre competence team is the place to be.