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Morrison Hershfield Welcomes Don Goodwin to Our Mission Critical Practice

By Morrison Hershfield | February 18, 2022

Morrison Hershfield is pleased to welcome Don Goodwin to our Critical Facilities team. As Vice President of Business Development, Don will continue to expand our mission critical presence across North America by establishing and building relationships with clients and strategic partners.

Harper Harrison's Data Center News: 60 Seconds with Shaunak Pandit

By Morrison Hershfield | December 22, 2020

Harper Harrison's Data Center News features an interview with Morrison Hershfield's Vice President of Mission Critical Facilities Engineering, Shaunak Pandit.

TOR1 Shortlisted for Multi-Tenant Data Center Design award at DCD Global Awards 2020

By Morrison Hershfield | December 17, 2020

Digital Realty’s TOR1 Data Center in Toronto, Ontario was one of three data centers from around the world shortlisted for the Multi-Tenant Data Center Award at the DCD Global Awards program. The annual award ceremony recognizes efforts and innovations of people and projects in the data center...

COVID-19 Won’t Stop This Mission Critical Team from Delivering on Schedule

By Morrison Hershfield | June 15, 2020

Morrison Hershfield is responsible for essential ongoing engineering design work on the TOR1 Data Center in Toronto. Typically, Digital Realty’s project team, based out of Virginia, New York and Boston come to Toronto regularly to conduct inspections on recently completed projects.

Working Towards Improving Gender Diversity in STEM Industries

By Morrison Hershfield | March 8, 2020

March 8th is International Women's Day. It celebrates women's achievements and recognizes progress towards a more gender-equal world. The theme this year is "Each for Equal" which is all about collective individualism and understanding that while everyone is different, collectively we can come...

AFCOM Gender Diversity Bursary

By Morrison Hershfield | October 30, 2019

AFCOM GTA presented a $5,000 Gender Diversity Bursary cheque to McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering. This $5,000 scholarship will help support a female student in her pursuit to advance the Data Center Industry. The gift was presented during AFCOM GTA’s annual Nine and Dine golf tournament...

Morrison Hershfield Ranked Among Top Ten Largest Data Center Engineering Firms In North America By Building Design + Construction Magazine

By Morrison Hershfield | September 4, 2019

Morrison Hershfield has landed sixth on the list of top Engineering Firms in the Data Center Sector, according to the 2019 Giants 300 Report released by Building Design +Construction Magazine.

Morrison Hershfield Wins CDCXA Award for Data Centre Services

By Morrison Hershfield | July 3, 2019

Morrison Hershfield won a Leader’s Circle Award at the inaugural Canadian Data Centre Excellence Awards (CDCXA) at McMaster Innovation Park in Hamilton on June 19th.

Working Towards Improving Gender Diversity in the Data Center Industry

By Morrison Hershfield | May 14, 2019

Data center professionals gathered at The National Club in Toronto on May 7th to learn more about improving gender diversity in the data center industry. The breakfast seminar event was co-hosted by Morrison Hershfield and AFCOM, and sponsored by CommScope, EllisDon and Plan Group.

Connecting the Planet: Where Are Edge Data Centers Going?

By Morrison Hershfield | December 12, 2018

Jason Green, CTO of Element Critical explained how “edge” data centers are shifting the paradigms of the traditional data center landscape to a large audience in the Atlanta industry.

Laura Rogers Wins Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year

By Morrison Hershfield | December 11, 2018

Laura Rogers was announced as the winner of the Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year award by Data Center Dynamics (DCD) on Thursday, December 6th. The gala ceremony took place at the Lancaster Hotel in London, UK, hosted by comedian Deborah Frances-White.

Laura Rogers Shortlisted for Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year

By Morrison Hershfield | November 21, 2018

Morrison Hershfield congratulates Laura Rogers, for being shortlisted for the 2018 Data Center Dynamics’ (DCD) Global Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year Award.

TOR1 Design Team Shortlisted for DCD>Global Awards

By Morrison Hershfield | November 21, 2018

Morrison Hershfield is thrilled to announce that the Mission Critical Facilities TOR1 Design Team is one of four shortlisted for the 2018 Data Center Dynamics (DCD) Global - Design Team of the Year Award.

The Evolution of the Mega-Scale Data Center & Tales From TOR1

By Morrison Hershfield | November 13, 2018

Morrison Hershfield and members of the Digital Realty TOR1 data center team (Digital Realty, EllisDon, Vertiv Co., and WZMH Architects) hosted a panel discussion on September 25th, 2018. The group of industry experts provided background information and fielded questions on the evolution of the...

The Drivers and Trends That Are Moving Data Centres Towards "The Edge"

By Morrison Hershfield | May 26, 2017

Morrison Hershfield, IBM and WZMH hosted GTA data centre professionals at the Toronto Board of Trade on May 11th to discuss “The Edge”. Phill Lawson-Shanks, keynote speaker from EdgeConneX, presented remarkable insight into changes in internet usage patterns, technologies connecting users to the...