Introduction
Our client is a global IT solutions provider helping accelerate the rise of digital businesses. They’re undergoing a global expansion program by increasing the colocation of data centers in Silicon Valley and worldwide. Many of their data centers were constructed at various BIM technology development and adoption stages. While some of their newer buildings may have BIM models developed during construction coordination, others have little to no information about existing conditions.
Our client’s management and the facilities groups wanted to improve on this situation, especially when faced with expansion plans and a market increase for their business.
After an initial consultation to assess their facility management (FM) operations, VEC provided campus-wide as-built and existing conditions mapping and modeling. Once this phase was complete, VEC was engaged to produce a visioning video demonstrating how a common-data structure could be implemented with existing FM systems and databases to build a Virtual Data Center FM program.
