From design to operations: how we earned three Uptime certifications in 18 months

A field report from the engineering team. The pre-design discipline that pays off at certification. The four mistakes most operators make on Tier III Design submission. The audit prep cadence that turned what is normally a six-month back-and-forth into a clean first-pass approval.

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