68,000 SQFT
Area
2.5 MW
Power
$18M
Contract Value
PROJECT AT A GLANCE
Project Details
Project Type
Colocation Data Center
Location
Chicago, IL
Size
68,000 SQFT
Contract Value
$18,000,000
Critical Power
2.5 MW
Overall Power
N+1
Cooling
N+1
Fire System
Pre-Action
Status
Completed
This facility was designed to support enterprise and colocation clients requiring high availability, redundancy, and future scalability in a major metropolitan market.
DELIVERED VALUE
What MDI Delivered
The client required a reliable, redundant, and scalable colocation facility that minimized operational risk and created certainty in uptime and expansion readiness. Risk management depended on resolving coordination conflicts before field work and maintaining sourcing flexibility.
Delivered high-availability infrastructure aligned to uptime expectations.
Supported future growth with scalable electrical and mechanical design provisions.
Reduced change-order exposure through pre-execution coordination (“paper-first” modeling).
Improved delivery certainty and procurement reliability via vendor-agnostic sourcing.
MDI Access Delivery Team
Services Executed by MDI
Chicago Colocation drew on 3 of MDI's ten services, delivered by one accountable team instead of separate vendors.
Data Center Feasibility Study Services
Site Selection Services
Technical Due Diligence
Colocation RFP & Provider Selection
Commissioning Services
Facility Condition Assessment Services
BIM & Facilities Management Services
Owner’s Representative Services
Acts as the owner's single point of contact from concept through commissioning, without taking on construction risk.
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Equipment Procurement
Selects and specifies mechanical and electrical equipment based on project fit, not a manufacturer's agenda.
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Preventive Maintenance Program
Builds a preventive maintenance plan around a facility's own systems, catching failures on a schedule instead of during an outage.
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