It seems that every engineering firm within the last five years states that they are a data center specialist. More and more firms are coming out claiming they are experts in the design of data centers with very little history and few have experienced “lessons learned.” In fact, there are only a few engineering firms that have a history in data center design with over 10 years of experience or more. Yet, we still see engineering firms win work due to relationships among real estate and engineering sales efforts. People hire people.