www.BDCuniversity.com www.BDCnetwork.com July 2 2014 014 2014 GIANTS 300 Gaining Momentum 25 AIA/CES DISCOVERY COURSE 12 TOP CE COURSES 24 Great Hall, Tom Bradley International Terminal Los Angeles International Airport 2014 JESSE H. NEAL AWARD WINNER DATA CENTERS REPORT Maturing ‘plug and play’ sector could take market share from AEC Giants A ny way you look at it, the data center market remains one of the healthiest sectors of the nonresidential construction industry. As the growth of cloud computing and mobile technology continues, the need for storage and computing power will expand exponentially. Cisco predicts global data center trafﬁc to grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes in annual trafﬁc by 2017 (a zettabyte is one billion terabytes, in case you were wondering). The fastest-growing component is cloud trafﬁc, which is expected to expand 4.5-fold from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017. In fact, by the end of 2014, cloud-based data centers will, for the ﬁrst time, surpass traditional data centers in terms of total workload, says Cisco. In its most recent forecast report (http:// tinyurl.com/datacenterforecast), technology research ﬁrm TechNavio called for the global market for data center construction to register an annual compound growth rate of 21% through 2018. Much of that growth is expected to occur in the colocation facilities segment, as corporations and other data enterprises look to outsource their increasingly complex and costly—and often outdated—data center operations. The maturation of the modular and containerized data center sector may eventually hinder the growth of traditional data center construction services, according to TechNavio analysts. As data center owners look to expand quickly and get online faster, a growing number are turning to “plug and play” and “data center in a box” solutions in lieu of site-built systems and facilities. The technology enables faster scaling and installation, and often comes equipped with the required power and cooling solutions, as well as built-in control, monitoring, and management functions to maximize performance. top 25 DATA CENTER SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS top 25 DATA CENTER SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS top 25 DATA CENTER SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS Rank Company Rank Company Rank Company 2013 Data Center Revenue ($) 1 Gensler 25,839,736 1 Fluor Corporation 2 Corgan 23,560,060 2 3 HDR 15,150,000 4 Page 5 2013 Data Center Revenue ($) 2013 Data Center Revenue ($) 243,370,000 1 Holder Construction 1,124,000,000 Jacobs 47,490,000 2 Turner Construction 512,000,000 3 Syska Hennessy Group 41,934,230 3 DPR Construction 506,001,637 13,950,000 4 URS Corp. 25,100,000 4 Structure Tone 400,450,000 Sheehan Partners 5,666,072 5 Vanderweil Engineers 21,588,000 5 Mortenson Construction 298,590,000 6 Little 5,450,648 6 Integrated Design Group 13,574,682 6 Gilbane 241,967,522 7 RS&H 4,900,000 7 Parsons Brinckerhoff 12,185,435 7 Balfour Beatty US 202,427,241 8 Callison 3,940,188 8 Environmental Systems Design 10,063,915 8 Hensel Phelps 177,120,000 9 Clark Nexsen 3,186,054 9 Arup 9,997,297 9 Hoffman Construction 168,000,000 10 Environetics 2,947,119 10 Highland Associates 8,400,000 10 HITT Contracting 136,900,000 11 HOK 1,971,352 11 AKF Group 7,965,000 11 Fortis Construction 136,102,000 12 KZF Design 1,699,307 12 Dewberry 6,640,874 12 Carlson Design Construct 114,070,000 13 Symmes Maini & McKee Associates 1,260,000 13 Glumac 6,541,483 13 Clune Construction 101,583,530 14 Harvard Jolly Architecture 1,143,578 14 H.F. Lenz 4,500,000 14 James G. Davis Construction 98,601,699 15 Schrader Group Architecture 1,098,519 15 Leidos 4,160,000 15 Skanska USA 95,067,555 16 Solomon Cordwell Buenz 1,000,000 16 Bala Consulting Engineers 3,192,000 16 Beck Group, The 91,445,591 17 Hammel, Green and Abrahamson 757,874 17 Henderson Engineers 2,782,839 17 JE Dunn Construction 91,178,219 18 EwingCole 625,000 18 H&A Architects & Engineers 2,700,000 18 Yates Companies, The 30,000,000 19 Heery International 589,726 19 RMF Engineering 2,500,000 19 URS Corp. 25,100,000 20 Nelson 394,035 20 Zak Companies 2,414,034 20 McGough 24,000,000 21 JRS Architect 275,000 21 Wick Fisher White 1,629,917 21 Tutor Perini Corp. 18,036,474 22 Ware Malcomb 262,000 22 Sparling 1,626,044 22 BlueScope Construction 17,849,218 23 Gresham, Smith and Partners 118,000 23 GHT Limited 1,575,000 23 IMC Construction 13,000,000 24 Stantec 80,826 24 TLC Engineering for Architecture 1,531,865 24 Parsons Brinckerhoff 12,185,435 25 Becker Morgan Group 75,482 25 Newcomb & Boyd 1,340,931 25 Brasfield & Gorrie 11,948,769 Giants 300 coverage of Data Centers brought to you by: Siemens | http://usa.siemens.com/datacenters 42 JULY 2014 BUILDING DESIGN+CONSTRUCTION www.BDCnetwork.com COURTESY LEO A DALY Some stakeholders are opting to save Modernist buildings using advanced façades. The Knights of Columbus ofﬁce tower in New Haven, Conn., designed by Roche-Dinkeloo in 1969, powerfully combines Corten steel, glass, and masonry, but was eventually plagued by problems with energy efﬁciency and condensation. For a recent reconstruction, architect Leo A Daly replaced the façade with a unitized window-wall system, and swapped 560 deteriorated Corten sunshades for versions that match the originals’ color, texture, and ﬁnish. Also on the Building Team: Heitmann & Associates (enclosure consultant), Cosentini Associates (MEP), DeSimone (SE), and Dimeo Construction (CM). tax credits—and are affectionately viewed as essential to the local architectural and historical fabric. Facilities in these styles that are typical candidates for preservation through renovation or adaptive reuse include commercial and government ofﬁces, courthouses, hotels, apartments, academic buildings, train stations, and cultural buildings like libraries and theaters. top 25 RECONSTRUCTION SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS Rank Company 2013 Reconstruction Revenue ($) 1 Jacobs 2 URS Corp. 1,842,130,000 3 Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates 68,083,200 4 CRB 68,000,000 5 Syska Hennessy Group 56,341,504 6 STV 55,451,000 7 Leidos 55,125,000 8 AKF Group 54,593,000 9 Dewberry 53,601,594 10 Thornton Tomasetti 53,009,856 11 Simpson Gumpertz & Heger 47,640,000 12 SSOE Group 46,550,848 13 Carlson Design Construct 43,000,000 14 RDK Engineers 27,880,000 15 Henderson Engineers 26,963,643 261,644,447 16 Environmental Systems Design 26,000,000 17 TTG 25,792,057 18 Highland Associates 25,200,000 19 H&A Architects & Engineers 23,353,000 20 ThermalTech Engineering 23,300,000 21 Ross & Baruzzini 22,500,059 22 Smith Seckman Reid 21,167,725 23 Vanderweil Engineers 20,083,500 24 RMF Engineering 19,364,940 25 TLC Engineering for Architecture 19,144,150 www.BDCuniversity.com The save-or-raze decision has sometimes been more difﬁcult when the structure in question is of the Modernist/Brutalist variety—a scenario highlighted by the fate of Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago, a Bertrand Goldberg-designed structure that was iconic if not universally beloved. Demolition of the cloverleaf-shaped building commenced last fall after preservationists failed to persuade the city Landmarks Commission to protect it. Elsewhere, however, stakeholders are choosing to leverage their midcentury assets through reconstruction. The U.S. General Services Administration has been a leader in using this strategy, and numerous examples popped up in the organization’s 2014 Design Awards. The redesigns are making the buildings more practical for current uses, and greener to boot. Recent examples include the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, Ore.; the Minton-Capehart Federal Building in Indianapolis; and the Dr. A.H. McCoy Federal Building in Jackson, Miss. The massive Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Federal Building in Washington, D.C., won a BD+C Reconstruction Award last year for a radical rethinking that included both an exterior upgrade and a new atrium punched into the center. 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