About the Authors
Vincent Fogarty received his MSc (King's College) in Construction Law & Dispute Resolution, BSc (Hons.) in Cost Management in Building Engineering Services. Diploma in Engineering Services, FRICS, FSCSI, MCIArb, ACIBSE, MIEI, I.Eng.
Vincent is a dual‐qualified engineer and quantity surveyor and started his data centre journey as a mechanical and electrical consultant for the Bank of Ireland data centre in Dublin, which housed reel‐to‐reel data storage for some of the first cash machines. Many years later, Vincent ventured to Luleå in North Sweden as commercial manager on Facebook's first data centre built outside the United States. Since then, Vincent has provided commercial advice and dispute resolution services on various commercial matters on many data centre projects in many jurisdictions. Vincent is also a founding partner of Project Art, a data centre site currently under a planning application process in Ireland.
Vincent has over 38 years of combined quantity surveying and mechanical and electrical engineering experience within the construction industry. He initially trained as a mechanical and electrical engineer with a firm of specialist consultants and later joined consultants and contractors working on the whole project life cycle from inception to completion and then handover and operation. Lawyers have appointed Vincent as an expert in complex ...