COMPLETED

Chicago, IL

Mission Critical REIT Data Center

Mission-critical REIT asset delivered with high availability, scalable infrastructure, and tenant-ready reliability, built to reduce risk and support long-term portfolio value.

55,000 SQFT

Area

6 MW

Power

$15M

Contract Value

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PROJECT AT A GLANCE

Project Details

Project Type

Data Center

Client

Mission Critical REIT

Location

Chicago, IL

Size

55,000 SQFT

Contract Value

$15,000,000

Critical Power

4 MW

Overall Power

6 MW

Cooling

CWS / Evaporative Cooling

Fire Systems

Pre-Action / FM-200 / VESDA

Status

Completed

This facility was designed to support enterprise and colocation tenants with high-density, high-availability operational requirements.

DELIVERED VALUE

What MDI Delivered

As a REIT-owned mission-critical asset, the facility needed to provide tenant confidence, predictable uptime, and repeatable operational performance. Risk reduction required conflicts to be resolved before field execution and equipment strategies that could adapt to sourcing realities.

Tenant-ready, high-availability infrastructure supporting REIT performance objectives.

Reduced execution risk through pre-coordinated planning (“paper-first” modeling).

Improved schedule reliability via vendor-agnostic sourcing flexibility.

Operational efficiency improvements through maintainability-minded design decisions.

MDI Access Delivery Team

Services Executed by MDI

Mission Critical REIT Data Center drew on 3 of MDI's ten services, delivered by one accountable team instead of separate vendors.

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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Core Delivery Areas:

Investment-Grade Data Center Design

Scalable Power & Cooling Strategy

Asset Protection & Compliance

Infrastructure Reliability Engineering

Lifecycle Performance Optimization

KEY TAKEAWAY

Client Value Summary

MDI Access helped protect asset performance by building in certainty, risk reduction, and operational efficiency, supported by upfront coordination and a vendor-agnostic procurement strategy.

Upfront Coordination & Certainty

Vendor-Agnostic Procurement

Operational Efficiency by Design

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