Datacenter cooling · electrical · due diligence

Engineering answers in days, not meetings.

BuildGrid delivers independent datacenter engineering studies with a fixed price and a fixed deadline. Configure your study online, sign the NDA, upload your documents — work starts the same day. No kickoff calls, no proposals, no waiting.

Fixed price — quoted before you commit Fixed deadline — chosen by you, guaranteed by us NDA signed online — before any file is shared Zero meetings required — unless you want one
Services

Independent studies, delivered as decision-ready reports

Every study ends in a clear, source-referenced deliverable: findings, risks, and recommendations you can act on — not a slide deck that needs another meeting to explain.

Instant quote

Configure your study

Choose the study, your site size, and how fast you need it. The price and deadline update instantly — what you see is what you pay.

Your fixed price
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Final quote confirmed by email within 4 business hours of your request — before any payment.

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How it works

From first click to study start — in one sitting

Configure

Pick your study, capacity and deadline. See the fixed price instantly.

Sign the NDA

The mutual NDA is pre-filled with your details — review and sign it online in under a minute.

Get confirmation

Within 4 business hours: confirmed fixed price, secure upload link, and payment link.

Upload & pay

You receive a secure upload link for drawings, models and reports, plus a payment link.

Study starts

Work begins the same day payment clears. You receive the report on the agreed date.

The BuildGrid rule: if your request and payment land on a working day, your study starts that same day — and the deadline clock is ours to respect, not yours to chase.
Why BuildGrid

Built for operators who can't wait six weeks for an answer

Speed is the service

Every deliverable has a minimum realistic duration and a guaranteed maximum. You choose the deadline; the price reflects it. No study is accepted on a timeline we can't honour.

Practitioner, not salesperson

Studies are performed by a datacenter cooling and electrical engineer working daily on live DLC, chilled-water and CRAH projects — tender through commissioning. You get field-tested judgement, not recycled boilerplate.

Auditable by design

Every figure in a BuildGrid report is traceable to a source: manufacturer data, standards, or your own documents. Findings you can defend in front of your client, investor or design board.

See the deliverable before you buy: a real (anonymized) extract — findings, risk register, source traceability. Download sample report (PDF)
Engineering tools

Professional Excel tools, built from the field

Calculation suites that work like software: guided inputs, protected formulas, built-in user guide, and client-ready outputs. One-time purchase, lifetime updates.

EXCEL · v2.0

Pipe Pressure Drop Calculator

Water & glycol hydraulic sizing — metric & imperial

  • 30-segment index-run calculation — friction, fittings, static
  • Fluid properties by temperature AND glycol concentration (PG/EG)
  • Pump sizing, NPSH & cavitation margin, pipe-size recommendations
  • System vs pump curve chart + one-page PDF engineering report
EXCEL

Chiller Plant Sizing Suite

Capacity, staging and free-cooling hours from your climate data

  • Coming soon — join the list via any free download to be notified
Coming soon
EXCEL

DLC Loop Sizing Tool

CDU selection, TCS flow balance and ride-through verification

  • Coming soon — join the list via any free download to be notified
Coming soon

Payments and delivery are handled securely by Gumroad. Each purchase includes a licence key and lifetime access to updates.

Resources

Guides, courses & engineering calculators

Practical tools from the field — download and use them in your own projects. New resources are added regularly.

Sample Design Review Extract

A real (anonymized) report extract: findings, risk register and source traceability — see the BuildGrid deliverable standard.

Free downloadPDF
Download

Datacenter Cooling 101

A practitioner's course: architectures, sizing logic, redundancy, free cooling and DLC — explained the way projects actually work.

Coming soonPDF course

Chilled-Water Plant Sizing Calculator

Excel tool: plant capacity, flow rates, buffer volume ride-through and pump sizing sanity-checks from your design inputs.

Coming soonExcel

DLC Readiness Checklist

The checklist we use before any direct liquid cooling deployment: facility water, CDU integration, controls and failure modes. 50+ items across 8 domains.

Free downloadPDF
Get it free
Request a study

Start your study now

Send your request — you'll receive the confirmed quote, the NDA for signature and your secure upload link by email, usually within 4 business hours.

No files are uploaded here. In the next step you'll review and sign the mutual NDA online — then we send you a private, secure upload link for all technical documents, including large CAD, Revit and IFC files.

Please complete all required fields above first.

Request received — one last step: upload your documents

Your signed NDA has been downloaded to your device and recorded with your request. Your order reference is .

Upload your project documents now — drawings, SLD, schedules, BIM/IFC, reports — up to 50 GB, free, no account required:

  1. Click the button below — SwissTransfer opens in a new tab.
  2. Add your files, choose “Send by email”.
  3. Recipient: contact@buildgridconsultancy.com
  4. In the message field, paste your reference:
Upload documents — SwissTransfer ↗

Within 4 business hours you'll receive: the confirmed fixed price and the payment link. Work starts the same day payment clears. Prefer to upload later? No problem — just keep the reference and use the same button in the confirmation email you'll receive.

FAQ

Questions, answered

How can you start the same day when big firms need weeks?

Because everything that normally requires meetings — scoping, pricing, NDA, document exchange — is standardized and online. The engineering itself gets full attention; the administration takes minutes.

Is the online price final?

The configurator gives an indicative "from" price. We confirm the final fixed price by email within 4 business hours, before any payment. If the scope is exactly as configured, the confirmed price matches the configurator.

How is confidentiality handled?

A mutual NDA is signed electronically before you share a single document. Files are exchanged through a private, encrypted upload link and deleted on request after project close-out.

What do I receive at the end?

A decision-ready PDF report: findings, risk register, and prioritized recommendations, with every figure referenced to its source. Optionally, a 45-minute review call is included at no extra cost.

Can you meet an even shorter deadline than Express?

Sometimes. Describe the situation in the request form — if it can be done without compromising quality, you'll get a custom quote; if not, we'll tell you honestly.

Which regions do you serve?

Studies are document-based and delivered remotely worldwide. Site visits can be quoted separately for projects in Europe.