Marcus Oyelaran

Decide power and cooling first, or your modular data center redesigns itself halfway through.

How to adapt AIA's standard design phases for data center engineering complexity.

One rack density change cascades across power, cooling, and procurement simultaneously.

Power constraints now drive facility design from day one, not just operations after construction.

Mapping BIM to operations keeps data current from design through handoff.

Geometric accuracy alone won't capture the operational data that data center coordination demands.

COBie data must flow through construction, not assemble at handover.

Rack-level precision and room-level BIM must stay synchronized to prevent costly failures.

Documentation must move in sync with installation, not after, to keep power, cooling.

BIM's clash detection misses the logical and sequencing failures that break data center redundancy.

Diverging discipline models hide costly conflicts until construction gets underway.

Connecting design tools automatically cuts data reentry errors on costly projects.

Automation stacks help engineers handle extreme GPU densities without proportional staffing growth.

Automated validation catches design flaws before they become expensive field problems.

Missing asset data at handoff means operations gets a drawing, not a working registry.