Mission Critical Facilities & Data Centers
Skip the risk
- Eliminate defects and rework, bring predictability to phased projects, and bring capacity online with confidence.
- Take the risk out of prefabrication of rack systems, electrical equipment, and mechanical infrastructure with exacting layout accuracy.
- Get all installation crews aligned on the same information.
"Dusty is perfect for huge and complex buildings like data centers. Dusty unifies the model and the install to eliminate conflicts in the field and makes the layout process very quick and fluid."
Invest in consistency
- Leverage layout to coordinate your latest data center design innovation, alignment of trades, and compliance with schedule milestones.
- Sleep well knowing all of the information needed to build is available, no matter where your project is.
- Ensure field readiness to install novel tech—from hybrid cooling systems to the latest power distribution strategies—by arming the field with all needed detail.
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Standardize your data center builds
- Communicate the model to the field and eliminate defects like skewed rack systems and misaligned conduit runs with an automated BIM-to-field workflow.
- Build supply chain resilience with accurate layout that lets crews work around delayed equipment and assemblies.
- Mitigate lack of labor experienced with rapidly changing technology with complete instructions and detailed layout on the jobsite floor.
Bring mission critical facilities online sooner
- Shave weeks off the project schedule with automated multi-trade layout.
- Drive installation productivity by printing coordinated design information directly on the jobsite floor.
- Free construction crews to spend more time installing and less time resolving questions and conflicts.
Align Achieves Data Center Layout Efficiency
“With Dusty Robotics, we were able to efficiently install 384 data center racks in six rooms, totaling 2,304 racks. The precision and speed of Dusty’s technology allowed us to complete the layout and installation accurately and quickly, ensuring everything fit perfectly."
Get off the job faster
- Speed through layout with 10x faster productivity than traditional methods.
- Set crews up for high productivity by eliminating the information gap between VDC and the field.
- Eliminate time-wasting conflicts between trades. Stack cooling, power, data, and other trades for installation efficiency.
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Powering Ambitious Data Center Builds
Mortenson Data Center Mega Project
"With Dusty, errors or conflicts are identified and fixed early, before they become a problem."
Align Data Center Builds
"With Dusty Robotics, we were able to reduce the time required for layout from a week to just one long day. What once took 20 people now only requires two."
Better Coordination Leads to Profitability
33% of contractors find that coordination issues are a root cause of the construction quality challenges they experience.
Frequently asked questions
Mission critical construction involves designing and building facilities that must remain in continuous operation 24/7 without any downtime, such as data centers, hospitals, and financial institutions. These facilities house essential services and even momentary disruptions can have severe consequences for business, security, or safety. Reliability, redundancy, and efficiency are key concerns in mission critical construction.
Mission critical data centers house vital infrastructure such as servers, storage systems, network equipment, and electrical/mechanical systems that support essential operations. The construction layout for data centers requires the careful coordination of numerous subsystems and trades, with little room for error.
A successful mission critical construction layout must include the following:
- Precise Spatial Planning: Maximize use of floor space while allowing optimal clearance for equipment access, cable pathways, and work areas.
- Mapping Critical Pathways: Accurately map out pathways for power, cooling, network, and other critical utility distributions from central plants to individual equipment locations.
- Accommodating Future Growth: Incorporate flexibility and expansion capabilities to accommodate future technology refreshes or increased capacity needs.
- Coordination of Multiple Trades: Enable multi-trade collaboration from the start by providing a single-source layout consolidating requirements across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, and other disciplines.
- Regulatory Compliance: Adhere to codes, standards, and regulations governing fire protection, energy efficiency and physical security.
Mission critical project layouts require significant attention to the following factors:
- Redundancy: Critical systems must have backups in place to ensure continued operation if any failures occur. This involves duplicating power, cooling, and communication lines.
- Space optimization: Maximize available space to meet current and future needs while maintaining easy access for your workforce.
- Security: Layout areas must be secured while still allowing access for essential personnel.
- Access control: Control and monitor who has access to different sections of the facility.
- Environmental controls: Maintain optimal conditions for sensitive equipment, such as temperatures and humidity levels.
- Safety compliance: Ensure the design follows all relevant safety standards to protect your employees and ensure reliable operations.
The FieldPrint Platform brings a revolutionary approach to layout for your data centers and mission critical projects. It offers unmatched accuracy by directly translating digital plans into exact physical layouts on-site. This precision minimizes errors and significantly accelerates the layout process for your workforce. By automating labor-intensive tasks, the FieldPrint Platform drastically reduces setup time, leading to substantial cost savings through reduced labor and minimal waste. Its adaptability makes it suitable for different types of data center projects including colocation data centers, enterprise data centers, and hyperscale data centers, while its integration capabilities promote enhanced collaboration and communication among your teams.
The size of your mission critical facility or data center construction projects dictate some of the tools and technologies that you need to be successful.
- Enterprise data centers are owned and operated by a single organization. They may have unique and custom technology that is prefabricated and installed during the construction process, and highly specific design requirements that must be followed during the construction layout process.
- Colocation data centers have multiple tenants sharing the space, and may need to be laid out multiple times during tenant improvement processes in order to provide flexibility to different owners.
- Modular data centers rely on even more prefabricated or modular components which must be laid out with a very high degree of accuracy in order to avoid alignment issues.
- Hyperscale data centers are some of the largest, more complex, and most power-intensive mission critical facilities being built today, often built by large cloud service providers. They have unique needs due to their large scale, which can result in any layout inaccuracies compounding over the full size of the facility.
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