Explore the Agenda

12:00 pm Check In & Networking

Workshop A

1:00 pm Driving Collaboration Across the Value Chain to Deliver a Large Data Center Campus on Time & on Budget

Associate Vice President & Lead - Campus Infrastructure Integration Solution Portfolio, Black & Veatch
Senior Vice President & Manager - Mission Critical & Project, JE Dunn Construction
Senior Associate, Gensler
  • Building the foundations for strong partnerships across owners, contractors, designers, and suppliers from design to align goals, share risk, and streamline decision-making
  • Evaluating the momentum of alternative project delivery methods: what are the best options for my next project to mitigate risk, increase quality and drive sustainable profitability
  • Establishing clear roles and collaborative workflows that integrate the full project team from project start to finish
  • Capturing and applying insights from each phase to refine delivery standards, prevent recurring issues, and shorten deliver timelines on our next megaproject

3:00 pm Afternoon Refreshments & Networking

Workshop B

3:30 pm Maximizing Prefabrication & Modularization to Expedite Project Delivery

Senior Vice President - Engineering, Echelon Data Centres
  • Planning prefab by system type to clearly define what can be prebuilt, what requires onsite customization, and how to maximize multi-trade prefab and modular
  • Evaluating the essential prefabrication decisions during design to influence procurement and cost control
  • Developing strategies to avoid oversaturating the prefabricator supply chain through the evaluation on the extent of modularization to available skilled labor, logistics capabilities, and regional factors
  • Leveraging lessons learned from early modularization pilots to identify the key success factors, pitfalls, and best practices for scaling prefab modular data center construction

5:30 pm End of Pre-Conference Workshop Day