Mission Critical Facilities:

Data Centers

K&H provides specialized Enclosure and Structural Consulting services for mission critical facilities – that is, buildings or infrastructure that require resiliency to avoid operation disruption – including hospitals and data centers.

For over a decade, we have been assisting General Contractors, Architects, Owners, and Developers in the design and construction of data centers. K&H provides QA/QC and value engineered solutions that help prevent and resolve issues quickly in a market known for fast paced project delivery.

Why It’s Important

As demand for digital infrastructure continues to accelerate, successful data center delivery depends on tightly integrated systems designed and constructed by multidisciplinary teams with deep, specialized expertise. K&H quickly integrates within these teams to provide early collaboration in our design and constructability reviews. This continues into the construction administration phase with submittal reviews and on-site quality control observations.

Data center construction is inherently complex, requiring coordinated participation from owners, architects, engineers, constructors, trade partners, consultants, and commissioning teams. We understand that even minor execution gaps can have downstream impacts on reliability, schedule, and cost — elevating the need for proactive coordination and quality control.

How We Work

K&H brings together a team of Architects and Structural Engineers with tenured construction experience to provide a practical approach to our consulting services. Our process typically includes:

Building Enclosure

  • Enclosure Peer Reviews & Design Detail Assistance
  • Enclosure Trade Partner Scope of Work Reviews
  • Mock-up Reviews
  • Submittal Reviews
  • Pre-Installation Meetings
  • Site Visits to Review Installed Work
  • Performing / Coordinating / Witnessing Enclosure Testing
  • Closeout Document Review
  • OPR/BOD Review
  • Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx)

Structural Engineering

  • Structural Peer Reviews & Design Detail Assistance
  • Structural Trade Partner Scope of Work Reviews
  • Structural Inspection Review
  • Submittal Reviews
  • Pre-Installation Meetings
  • Site Visits to Review Installed Work
  • Closeout Document Review

Building Performance Into Every Detail

While many project stakeholders in data centers naturally focus on the performance and redundancy of power and cooling systems, K&H provides a complementary and equally critical focus to the structural and enclosure systems that support and protect these investments.

Our project approach is to verify that design and construction resiliency extends to the building structure and enclosure to better maintain environmental control, protect sensitive equipment, and perform reliably under operating conditions.

K&H helps deliver data centers that function as fully integrated, resilient facilities from the outside in.

Contact

Nick Casaletto

Associate Principal

Martin White

Senior Associate II

Scott Lumsden

Principal

Glenn Johnson

Principal

Scott Stolarz

Associate Principal

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