Client: Northern Territory Government
Location: Darwin, NT / Larrakia Country
To strengthen its disaster recovery capability, the Northern Territory Government engaged Lucid as the lead consultant for the design and delivery of a new Tier III-aligned data centre. The facility is a critical enabler of business continuity across the Government’s ICT portfolio, and required high-performance infrastructure resilient to NT’s unique climate and operational demands.
Lucid managed the full multidisciplinary team — including architecture, civil, structural, cost planning, and statutory approvals — while directly delivering mechanical, electrical, fire, hydraulic, and asset-focused engineering design.
The project demanded more than just technical compliance — it needed to meet TIA Tier III standards while also futureproofing for growth, minimising environmental risk, and enabling uninterrupted government services.
This meant ensuring the facility could remain live during upgrades, withstand extreme weather events like cyclones, and scale without compromising operations — all within tight regulatory and spatial constraints.
Lucid brought a holistic approach, combining rigorous Tier III compliance with flexible design thinking to support staged delivery, predictive maintenance, and long-term asset performance.
We worked closely with government stakeholders, statutory authorities and utilities to coordinate approvals and align engineering decisions with long-term asset management outcomes.
The facility was carefully planned to enable expansion without disruption — with every detail, from sealed penetrations to lift-off roof panels, designed for a dust-free, live environment.
Lucid’s design integrated high-redundancy infrastructure with pragmatic, scalable systems, including:
Critical digital infrastructure underpins reliable public service — especially in a region as vast and climate-challenged as the Northern Territory. By enabling resilient operations and future scalability, Lucid’s design ensures this data centre supports a more connected and capable government — now and into the future.
