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Data Centers
The $28 million data center at St Jude’s Children's Research Hospital, Memphis. The project team for the three-story, 55,000-sf facility: Gensler (architect), Paradigm Structural Engineers (SE), Syska Hennessy Group (ME), Liles Energy Design Consultants (EE), Jensen Hughes (fire/life safety), and Flintco Inc. (GC). Photo: Joe Luther
July 25, 2018 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Cooling mission critical facilities efficiently is critical to their operations and profitability...
Rendering: Snøhetta/Plompmozes
June 22, 2018 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The concept has been dubbed The Spark.
Facebook’s Prineville (Ore.) Data Center. Photo: Tom Raftery/Wikimedia Commons
February 22, 2018 | BD+C Staff
The number of so-called “hyperscale” data centers worldwide surpassed 390 at the end of 2017, wit...
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A growing number of businesses are outsourcing their vital IT infrastructure to mega-co-location facilities like the newly built 550,000-sf, 62MW Aligned Energy Phoenix data center. The energy-efficient facility is designed to achieve an annualized power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.15. Courtesy of Aligned Energy.
October 16, 2017 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
Look for mission-critical construction to double in the next few years.
The Kolos Data Center, 225 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. Rendering courtesy of HDR.
October 13, 2017 | BD+C Staff
Turner Construction Co., Holder Construction, and DPR Constrcution top BD+C’s ranking of...
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October 12, 2017 | BD+C Staff
Syska Hennessy Group, AECOM, and Morrison Hershfield top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s...
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October 11, 2017 | BD+C Staff
Jacobs, Corgan, and Gensler top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest data center secto...
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Aligned Energy's colocation center in Phoenix, one of America's top-10 multi-tenant data center markets. Image: Connie Zhou Photography
August 28, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
As construction and leasing surge, one big contractor worries about his industry’s talent shortag...
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Rendering courtesy of HDR
August 16, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The 600,000-sm facility will be on a secure property surrounded by a moat.
July 25, 2017 | Jeremy Meyers, BD Manager, Data Center Solutions
This article outlines the current data center landscape in the healthcare sector, industry trends...
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The Bexar Metro 911 Regional Operations Center in Texas includes areas where employees can get brief respites from their stressful jobs. The design and construction emphasize natural light and air quality. Image: Courtesy of Page
July 21, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
The Operations Center consolidates activities that previously were being handled at 25 locations....
Customers of Aligned Data Center’s 100,000-sf facility in Plano, Texas, pay only for the energy they use, in a program aimed at helping clients more precisely approximate their energy needs. This same pricing program will be used for Aligned’s 550,000-sf data center in Phoenix. Photo courtesy of Aligned Energy.
October 10, 2016 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
AEC firms see opportunities as consultants for clients trying to figure out which data center sol...
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Photo courtesy SmithGroupJJR
September 26, 2016 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
Over the past two years, SmithGroup has been getting more requests from clients for micro data ce...
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Photo: Cory Doctorow, flickr Creative Commons
September 19, 2016 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
The aim of the standard was to ‘not stifle innovation.’
CyrusOne Data Center, Houston, by Kirksey Architecture, Bihner-Chen (SE), KW Mission Critical Engineering (MEP), Skanska (GC). Photo: Aker imaging / Joe Aker, courtesy Kirksey Architecture.
August 10, 2016 | Mike Plotnick, Contributing Editor
Streamlined design and delivery approaches for individual business enterprises and co-location fa...
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Facebook Data Center, Prineville, Oregon. Photo: Tom Raftery, flickr Creative Commons.
August 10, 2016 | BD+C Staff
Vanderweil Engineers, Jacobs, and Syska Hennessy Group top Building Design+Construction’s annual...
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Google Data Center, The Dalles, Oregon. Photo: Tony Webster, flickr Creative Commons.
August 10, 2016 | BD+C Staff
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Holder Construction Co., and DPR Construction top Building De...
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@Tokyo Data Center, Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Guilhem Vellut, flick Creative Commons.
August 10, 2016 | BD+C Staff
Gensler, Corgan, and HDR top Building Design+Construction’s annual ranking of the nation’s larges...
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The latest addition to Atlanta's Tech Square innovation center is Coda, a 1-million-sf mixed-use complex that is designed for collaboration between researchers and the private sector, and will include retail space activated by an outdoor plaza. Image: John Portman & Associates
April 24, 2016 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
A much anticipated, Portman-developed tower project will include collaborative office spaces, a d...
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Photo: Bob Mical/Creative Commons
April 01, 2016 | Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor
The book offers advice for designing structures in the fast-changing data center industry.
Photo: Project Natick, via Microsoft
February 01, 2016 | BD+C Staff
The project, named Project Natick, featured a successful prototype trial run last summer.
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Novartis's Alcon Laboratories campus in Texas includes a 37,000-sf data center with a 100 kW PV array for on-site power. JLL's latest Data Center outlook says more third-party data centers are turning to alternative energy sources for their long-term power needs. Image courtesy Integrated Design Group
January 28, 2016 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
JLL’s latest outlook foresees a maturation in certain metros.