Sterling Heinz
Director of Risk Management DC BLOX
Sterling Heinz is Director of Risk Management at DC BLOX, where he focuses on identifying and mitigating project risks across complex data centre developments. He specialises in improving coordination between external infrastructure and internal building systems to support efficient project execution. In the session Integrating Internal & External Infrastructure to Ensure Seamless Project Execution, Sterling will share strategies for overcoming coordination challenges between utility infrastructure and building systems, managing the impact of late design changes, identifying risks across multiple contractors, and reducing delivery delays caused by ownership gaps and unclear responsibilities.
Seminars
Wednesday 2nd December 2026
Hyperscaler, Neocloud & Colocator Panel: Aligning Power, Supply Chain & Delivery Models to De-Risk the Next Wave of AI Capacity Growth
8:10 am
- Identifying the real constraints to scaling capacity across power, land, and skilled labor availability: how is that impacting where we plan future builds?
- Understanding the shift from LLM training to inference workloads: how does this inform infrastructure design, construction and capacity planning?
- Aligning construction resources, trade partners and supply chains with long-term planning to improve delivery certainty and reduce disruption risk
- Reassessing where to build over the next 3–5 years as power constraints force trade-offs between speed and proximity to demand
Thursday 3rd December 2026
Integrating Internal & External Infrastructure to Ensure Seamless Project Execution
11:30 am
- Understanding where coordination breaks down between external infrastructure (e.g. medium/high voltage, duct banks, substations) and internal building systems
- Exploring how late changes to external designs (e.g. cable routing, capacity) impact completed or ongoing internal works
- Identifying challenges in coordinating across multiple contractors who have separate scopes but shared dependencies
- Assessing how communication gaps and unclear ownership at these interfaces increase delivery risk and safety concerns
