Like many aspects of the building industry, the traditional methods used to commission hyperscale data centers have shifted to accommodate the faster speed to market requirements, environmental concerns, an aging utility infrastructure, and global crisis that affect supply chain and travel. This panel will provide actionable guidance to providers and insight to building operators and owners on how experts are tackling these new issues, while maintaining reliability and sustainability standards.

Some of those are:

• Strategies/methods to commission remotely.
• New customer operational needs, e.g. those that relate to minimal onsite operators due to not just Covid, but with contemporary staffing challenges.
• New quality control challenges associated with leaning out of construction resources.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the mission critical aspects of data center market.
• Relate textbook commissioning to practical data center commissioning programming.
• Related construction quality concerns to the overall commissioning deliverable
• Understand the specialized programming, the special touch, that is required for success in hyperscale data center commissioning

Derek De Jesus, CxA, ACG Education Committee Chair (moderator)
David Yancosky, Mortenson Construction
Jim Vallort, Mortenson Construction
Michael Donato, QCxP, LEED AP, Veolia North America
Nich Zies, Microsoft
Tim Fenner, Facebook