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A CAD Engineer on Women in Engineering
What does it take to design the power behind a data centre — and what's it really like to be a woman in engineering? In this episode of Generating Conversation, we sit down with Megan O'Connor, a CAD engineer at AVK who's been promoted twice in just over two years. Now we're asking her about her career journey - her entry into engineering, the importance of female mentors, and the advice she'd give someone coming into the industry now.
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CCHP: The Technology Allowing for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbines) have widely been accepted as the BAT (Best Available Technique) for large-scale embedded generation. With the recently released emissions drivers from the Environment Agency, there is increasing need for new, emerging technologies for a higher efficiency rating. That solution could be Combined Cooling, Heat and Power (CCHP).
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How to Address the Power Component Crunch in Europe
Europe stands out as the global data centre market with the longest lead times for large power components. This can delay commissioning and is one of the factors slowing AI infrastructure competitiveness here. What can power solution providers and their data centre customers do to improve things?
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AVK Named Among the UK’s Best Managed Companies 2026
AVK have been recognised by Deloitte Private as one of the UK’s top-performing private businesses! Independent judges assessed winners on strategy, culture and commitment, capabilities and innovation, and governance and financial performance. We are honoured to be part of the winning cohort of 2026. This award follows a sustained period of rapid growth at AVK, as demand for data centre power infrastructure accelerates across the UK and Europe.
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AVK Haydock: Primed and Ready to Deliver
Our brand-new, state-of-the-art facility in Haydock gives us capacity to assemble up to 25 PowerPods on our shop floor at any one time. The first of its kind in Europe, our facility enables an increased speed-to-deployment, and improved quality.
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Decarbonising Behind-the-Meter Power: How it Works
In the face of AI-driven growth and grid capacity restrictions, one of the greatest challenges the data centre industry faces is how to decarbonise dispatchable on-site power. At AVK, we're making moves to tackle this challenge.
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