The Kingdom is building data centers at historic speed — and every one of them is, above all, a water-management problem. NGS protects the whole path: the storm on the campus, the groundwater at the basement, and the drip under the raised floor. One partner, from the boundary fence to the server rack.
Follow the water through a data center project and you pass through every NGS discipline — which is why mission-critical clients engage us across the stack rather than trade-by-trade.
A Saudi cloudburst on a sealed 100,000 m² campus becomes a flood in minutes. NGS sizes and supplies FloodFort GeoCellular attenuation beneath car parks and yards, designs the controlled discharge, and prepares the Balady drainage approval — so the storm never reaches the building.
Explore Stormwater & SuDS →Geotextiles and geogrids stabilise pads and access roads over weak or sandy ground; geomembranes and GCLs line ponds and utility corridors; erosion control protects slopes and channels — 21 product lines from one Saudi supplier.
Explore Geosynthetics →Pre-applied membranes under basement slabs, post-applied systems on walls, tanking for water storage and sprinkler reservoirs, podium and roof systems — specified for Saudi groundwater, salinity and 50 °C thermal stress.
Explore Waterproofing →The flagship: addressable locating sensor cable, membrane-lined containment trays and bunds, BMS/DCIM integration, witnessed commissioning and an annual protection service — the five layers detailed below.
See the five layers →Bunds and leak detection at generators, day tanks and transfer lines; emergency sump and safe-discharge routing; environmental monitoring options for temperature, humidity and airflow.
Included in the package →Hydraulic and geotechnical design, LOD 300–400 BIM models, alarm matrices and points lists, method statements, ITPs and witnessed acceptance records — the documentation mission-critical clients audit.
Explore Engineering & BIM →Cooling water, condensate, fuel and process fluids run within metres of live IT load. A single unseen leak can end more uptime than a power failure. The NGS protection package answers with five accountable layers:
Locating sensor cable, point sensors, controller and zone map — the leak is found in metres, not hours.
Membrane-lined bunds, metal drip trays, kerbs and sealed penetrations — NGS-fabricated, holding the liquid that escapes.
Dry contacts or Modbus / BACnet / SNMP into your BMS and DCIM, with an alarm matrix your operators trust.
Point-to-point checks, wet testing, map validation, alarm simulation and operator training — documented and signed.
Inspection, functional testing, calibration, map updates and reports — protection that stays proven, year after year.
Automatic isolation valves with approved cause-and-effect logic, emergency sump & dual pumps, fuel-line detection at generators and day tanks, environmental monitoring, and liquid-cooling manifold & CDU protection.
Colocation and cloud campuses, AI/HPC and liquid-cooled halls, telecom exchanges, bank and hospital server rooms, industrial control rooms — new build, expansion or live retrofit.
Hyperscale regions and AI campuses are bringing water-based and liquid cooling into Saudi mission-critical space at unprecedented scale — and each new hall multiplies the leak-risk interfaces that need engineered protection and lifetime testing.
Membranes, containment and drainage are what NGS engineers beneath NEOM, Diriyah and Red Sea projects every day. The same rigour — OEM-backed hardware, certified controls integrators, documented ITPs — now protects the Kingdom's digital infrastructure.
What can NGS deliver on a data center project?
The full water-and-ground scope: campus stormwater and flood protection (FloodFort geocellular attenuation), ground engineering with geosynthetics, substructure waterproofing, in-hall water-leak detection and secondary containment, fuel and utility containment, and the engineering, BIM and commissioning documentation that ties it together.
Do you work on live facilities or only new builds?
Both. Leak detection and containment retrofit into operating halls under permit-controlled method statements; campus drainage, waterproofing and ground works serve new builds and expansions.
How does the in-hall leak protection work?
Five layers: addressable locating sensor cable finds the leak to the metre; the controller alarms operators and the BMS/DCIM; approved isolation acts where specified; membrane-lined containment holds and routes the liquid safely; and an annual service keeps every layer tested.
Who owns performance and warranties?
Detection hardware is OEM-backed with the manufacturer's warranty passed through; controls and shutdown logic are executed with approved integrators to the consultant's cause-and-effect philosophy; NGS owns the contracted physical scope with signed inspection, testing and acceptance records.
Why is stormwater part of a data center page?
Because the flood risk starts outside: a Saudi cloudburst on a large, sealed campus must be attenuated and routed before it ever tests the building envelope. NGS sizes FloodFort geocellular storage for the campus, waterproofs the substructure, and protects the white space inside — one partner across the whole water path.
Talk to NGS about a survey and an end-to-end protection design — from campus stormwater to the raised floor.
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