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We are delighted to announce that in December 2022, we declared our support to all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces and signed the Armed Forces Covenant.  

Our Operations Director and Veteran, Ian Coleman said: “I am proud to have served in the Royal Navy; after leaving school and joining as an apprentice, I enjoyed a successful career and completed 15 years of service. However, leaving the Navy was a big step into the unknown commercial world of building services. It was a daunting transition that took a few months to feel comfortable in this new way of life and working practices. I am delighted to work for a company that values the practical experience, principles and teamwork ethic of servicemen and women from the military. JCA’s pledge to the Armed Forces Covenant demonstrates the commitment to the resettlement and employment of veterans and I am delighted to fully support and share my own experiences to ease the transition, and to ensure the continued success of JCA.”

The Covenant is a pledge that we acknowledge and understand that those who serve or who have served in the armed forces, and their families, should be treated with fairness and respect in the communities, economy and society they serve with their lives. By signing the Covenant, we have committed to providing opportunities and support to veterans, reservists, and military families in our workplace. 

We are actively involved in engaging with the Armed Forces Community to identify suitable candidates for career placements in many areas of the business. If you are in the Forces and are looking for a new role, please get in touch recruitment@jca.co.uk or visit our Careers page for more information.

On 6th October 2022 a ‘topping out’ ceremony was held at Kao Data’s Harlow Campus for KLON-02, the second of four market-leading, high performance data centres planned for the site.

The ceremony brought together the key stakeholders involved in the new data centre’s creation including, from the Kao Data team, Lee Myall, CEO, Paul Finch, COO, Gerard Thibault, CTO and Richard Collar, Technical Director, as well as Tom Absalom, Managing Director, Rudi Filmalter, Divisional Director, and Mike Bull, Contracts Director, from engineering construction partner and principal contractor JCA .

Tom Absalom, Managing Director at JCA said: “This marks another key milestone on a site steeped in data communications history, it being the birthplace of fibre optic data transfer. JCA are both proud and excited to be part of Kao Data’s impressive growth story and to celebrate topping out KLON-02, the second market-leading data centre we have had the privilege of constructing on the Harlow campus.”

The construction of the second facility was announced by Kao Data earlier this year with JCA appointed as principal contractor following on from the successful delivery of the first data centre on the campus, the award winning, BREEAM Excellent, KLON-01.

Once completed, the new data centre will offer up-to 10MW of capacity and provide an energy efficient home for almost 1,800 racks of IT equipment across 3,400m2 of technical space and via four Technology Suites. 

Follow us on LinkedIn for more updates about this development.

Further read:

• Uptime Institute Stamp of Approval for Kao Data London One
• First place for Kao Data Campus
• Kao Data and JCA shortlisted for ‘Design Team of the Year’ DCD Award
• JCA showcases data centre firsts at DCW18 with Kao Data London One

JCA, a leading provider of building engineering services, interior fit out, service and maintenance and design services, is celebrating its 18th anniversary this month.  

We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved working together over the last 18 years and would like to take a moment to thank our employees, clients and supply partners for the continuous support they have shown us. 

Steady growth 

JCA Engineering was incorporated in 2004 by a team of engineers who each held in excess of 20 years of experience within the building engineering services sector, data centre and critical services sector and air conditioning product manufacturing industry.  

The company has grown over the last 18 years, not only by reaching out and forming new and evolving client relationships, but also in embracing change over the period; understanding the need for change and to ever improve the service level provision, the need to also excel beyond client expectation and to adapt to changes in markets and sectors in which JCA operates. Whilst the business has always performed well in the context of the economic conditions in all the trading periods, it holds the belief that constant improvement should be sought, achieved by challenging assumptions, so as to enhance the service delivery. 

Today, JCA is a multi-disciplinary, engineering led organisation providing services to a diverse range of business sectors and end user clients. The company has many facets, not just delivering a broad spectrum of our “design build maintain“ services, but also managing and mitigating client specific operational risks, particularly in operational and critical environments, such as data centres and hospitals.  

JCA’s philosophy, culture and its people 

The JCA philosophy in relation to management is client focused, managing engineering solutions, processes, procedures, whilst mitigating risk for the client as well as the business and the staff employed. JCA is a business that is as passionate about its people as it is for the creativity and imagination of its engineering. 

The staff are key in ensuring the core business culture and ethos is maintained. The company employs a highly skilled, customer orientated team, bringing together a range of specialist technical proficiencies. Clients are assigned a team owner responsible for delivering unrivalled levels of customer service as well as industry expertise. This approach is consistent across all client engagements ranging from a mobile maintenance contract to a design and build construction project. In this way, the JCA team understand the long-term orientation toward high levels of service and client retention, the output of which is detailed and considered thinking, ultimately solutions that consider the full life cycle of customer contracts and support our client’s individual business drivers. 

Leading the away in health and safety 

JCA has always been committed to the health and safety of its employees, subcontractors and clients. In 2018, JCA issued its very first submission in the RoSPA Awards scheme and was subsequently awarded the RoSPA Gold Award. The following year, 2019, was even more successful with yet another RoSPA Gold Award achieved, as well as the prestigious and coveted RoSPA Health at Work major trophy award. This latest award emphasised JCA’s position as a leader in promoting health and safety and wellbeing within the business and throughout the supply chain. This year, JCA has won the coveted RoSPA Gold Medal Award, having been awarded the RoSPA Gold Award for the 5th consecutive year. 

Further read:

• JCA wins RoSPA Gold Medal
• We invest in people
• Shortlisted for the Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards 2021
• Uptime Institute Stamp of Approval for Kao Data London One