DLB Associates is an MEP and technology consulting engineering firm designing energy-efficient, resilient data centre and mission-critical infrastructure, including hyperscale campuses and liquid-to-chip cooling.
DLB Associates is an MEP and technology consulting engineering firm that designs mission-critical infrastructure, with a particular focus on highly energy-efficient and resilient data centre facilities. Founded in 1980, the firm has worked for over 40 years at the forefront of data centre engineering, delivering projects worldwide for major technology companies. Its portfolio includes the design of eight of the largest Google data centre campuses.
Technical work spans MEP engineering, technology consulting engineering, and data centre engineering, including large-scale hyperscale campuses for AI and hyperscale computing environments. The firm has pioneered direct liquid-to-chip cooling approaches for high-density computing, alongside engineering of energy efficiency and resilience across mission-critical facilities. Other practice areas include indoor environment optimisation, covering spaces that house computers, people, products, or agriculture.
DLB Associates describes its approach as an adaptive, clean-slate methodology that departs from traditional engineering conventions, with an emphasis on precision, scalability and resilience. The firm states that it has been involved in writing reference works on data centre engineering. Delivery is global, serving the world's most influential technology companies across verticals including data centres, hyperscale computing, artificial intelligence and the built environment.
