Data centers are highly complex facilities requiring dense coordination. Discover how BIM/VDC streamlines space planning, prefabrication, and lifecycle operations.
Data centers are among the most complex building types, which require a significant amount of coordination among design and construction teams. Data center construction often has tight project schedules and tight spaces in planning. Technically, no project benefits more from coordination using building information modeling and virtual design construction than data centers.
Space Planning
Data centers have huge mechanical and electrical capacities compared to their built-up area. Application of BIM helps designers to confirm that equipment and services distribution can fit into these tight spaces, allowing maintenance and service area clearances to be achieved.
Prefabrication Coordination
To help speed up the construction of data center projects, contracting companies are prefabricating many of the building systems and components. BIM/VDC is critical for designing and testing prefabrication concepts with respect to logistics, material handling, path of travel, and installation sequence.
Raised Access Floors
Raised floors can be tricky. Developing the BIM model of the raised flooring allows the installation teams to understand where MEP systems are located in conjunction to pedestal support system, eliminating bridging conflicts.
Air Flow Analysis (CFD)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations inside BIM models allow engineers to fine-tune server layouts based on thermal modeling, visualizing how air flows form and temperature variations occur.
Space Planning
Data centers have huge mechanical and electrical capacities compared to their built-up area. Application of BIM helps designers to confirm that equipment and services distribution can fit into these tight spaces, allowing maintenance and service area clearances to be achieved.
Prefabrication Coordination
To help speed up the construction of data center projects, contracting companies are prefabricating many of the building systems and components. BIM/VDC is critical for designing and testing prefabrication concepts with respect to logistics, material handling, path of travel, and installation sequence.
Raised Access Floors
Raised floors can be tricky. Developing the BIM model of the raised flooring allows the installation teams to understand where MEP systems are located in conjunction to pedestal support system, eliminating bridging conflicts.
Air Flow Analysis (CFD)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations inside BIM models allow engineers to fine-tune server layouts based on thermal modeling, visualizing how air flows form and temperature variations occur.
