Multidisciplined Approach
Langan’s multidisciplinary service approach enables coordination of critical site components and is well suited to meet the unique and varying demands of data center projects. Open and clear communication allows Langan to support project milestones and remain responsive to our clients’ needs until closeout.
Data Center Experience
Actapio
East Wenatchee, WA
Project Team
Joshua Calman
PE
Senior Project Manager | Site/Civil | jcalman@langan.com
Josh Calman has 13 years of experience in civil engineering. He has served as a Project Manager, Civil Discipline Lead, or Senior Project Engineer on a number of U.S. and international public and private land-development projects with a focus on data center campus sites and mission critical facilities. Calman has extensive experience with site feasibility, test fitting and master planning, design, permitting, and construction oversight in the development and construction of large-scale mission critical infrastructure.
Professional Engineer
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Chris Hager
Managing Principal | Site/Civil | chager@langan.com
Chris Hager manages Langan’s Philadelphia office and the site/civil engineering and land-development practice in Philadelphia. He has served both private and public-sector clients in land development and urban redevelopment throughout the northeastern United States, mid-Atlantic, and abroad. Hager is an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) locally and nationally. He is Past-Chair and Past-Governance Chair of ULI Philadelphia District Council, and serves on its Advisory Board and Governance Committee. He is a former member of ULI’s Urban Development & Mixed-Use Council and also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Chi Epsilon Engineering Society. Hager is a former member of Lehigh University’s Fritz Engineering Research Society.
Professional Engineer
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Kyle Strumfels
Associate | ESG Transaction Advisory | kstrumfels@langan.com
Kyle Strumfels has nearly 20 years of experience assessing corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other business transactions. He works with private equity, legal, industrial, and commercial investment clients to provide strategic support throughout the deal cycle. He has extensive experience managing due diligence and integration programs for Fortune 500 companies. Strumfels has personally conducted environmental due diligence assessments and regulatory compliance audits of more than 1,000 facilities across an array of industries throughout the United States, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Region, and has managed such projects on six continents.
EIT
Certified Hazardous Materials Manager
Professional Registration
DJ Hodson
PE, LEED AP
Managing Principal | Site/Civil | dhodson@langan.com
DJ Hodson leads the site/civil engineering practice in California, performing services nationally and internationally. He has over 26 years of experience in master-plan engineering, site analysis and design, utility infrastructure assessment and design, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis and design, stormwater-management analysis and design, and regulatory permitting. Hodson works with owners, developers, public agencies, architects, MEP engineers, construction contractors, design subcontractors, and various regulatory agencies and utility companies.
Professional Engineer
Professional Registration
Ryan Linthicum
PE, LEED AP
Managing Principal | Site/Civil | rlinthicum@langan.com
With over 24 years of experience, Ryan Linthicum leads Langan’s office in Arlington, Virginia and served as the Principal-in-Charge for the CoreSite and Ft. Meade HPC3 data center projects. He has served both public and private-sector clients in land development and redevelopment throughout the mid-Atlantic, New Jersey, and New York; in addition to an impressive portfolio internationally. His experience includes site engineering, stormwater-management analysis and design, hydrologic modeling, infiltration basin studies, roadway design, sanitary design and permitting, erosion and sediment-control plans, subsurface geotechnical investigations, and design and inspection of shallow and deep foundation systems.
Professional Engineer
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Serena Jang
PE, GE
Associate Principal | Geotechnical | sjang@langan.com
Serena Jang has performed geotechnical investigation and construction-observation services for various projects throughout the Bay Area. Jang’s experience includes managing field-investigation projects and performing engineering analyses including pile capacity (axial and lateral), slope-stability computations, settlement, seismic-hazards studies, bearing capacity, bioretention systems and roadway-pavement design. Her experience also includes observation during the installation and construction of driven piles and drilled piers, soldier-pier and lagging and sheet-pile shoring systems, observing and testing of tiebacks and tiedowns both temporary and permanent, and observing and testing fill compaction.
Professional Engineer
Geotechnical Engineer
Professional Registration
Crystal Eggers
CPE, LEED AP, CPSWPPP
Associate | Site/Civil | ceggers@langan.com
Crystal Eggers has nearly 20 years of civil engineering and site design experience. She has been part of a variety of data center, renewable energy, and development projects throughout New York and New Jersey. Her experience includes leading site due diligence studies, site layout, grading and drainage design, stormwater management analysis and design, utility design, land use permitting, environmental permitting, and construction administration. Eggers' understanding of utility-scale solar site design and construction lends a progressive understanding of using renewable energy and energy storage developments for the next generation of sustainable data center construction.
Professional Engineer
Professional Registration
Leslie Wong
CPEA, LEED AP
Senior Associate | ESG Strategy and Program Management | lwong@langan.com
Ms. Wong specializes in ESG strategy/disclosure, energy efficiency, and carbon accounting. She has 30 years of experience in environmental management with a specific focus on ESG services over the past 15 years. She has assisted a range of clients from the waste services, manufacturing and energy industries with carbon footprinting, GHG reduction strategy development and implementation, carbon credit generation, energy efficiency studies, and ESG disclosure implementation.
Certified Professional Environmental Auditor
LEED Accredited Professional
Certified ISO 140001 Lead Assessment Audito
Professional Registration
Gary Bacon
PE
Senior Associate | EHS Management/Compliance | gbacon@langan.com
Gary Bacon has been involved in environmental engineering, design, procurement, permitting, and compliance assurance for numerous projects in the data center industry. His experience includes regulatory applicability determinations, environmental permitting, compliance audits, air emissions inventories, licensing support of energy facilities, and implementation of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) management information systems at public and private-sector facilities nationally. His background in the areas of EHS, product stewardship, and asset-management information systems includes business-requirements definition, system vision and functionality development, system evaluations and selection, organizational change-management, system implementation and training.
Professional Engineer
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Stephanie Duffield
PE
Project Engineer | Environmental | sfriel@langan.com
Stephanie Friel has diversified experience in environmental compliance and permitting. She has been involved in a variety of projects throughout the United States, including air permitting and compliance, stormwater and wastewater permitting, contingency plans, and emission calculations and reporting. Her air quality experience also includes air quality dispersion modeling using U.S. EPA AERSCREEN or AERMOD. Friel is a member of Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA), Women’s Energy Network (WEN) and the Society of Women Environmental Professionals (SWEP).
Engineer in Training
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Jayne Spector
PLA, LEED AP
Senior Associate | Landscape Architect | jspector@langan.com
Jayne Spector has over 30 years of experience in landscape architecture and site planning for projects throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has handled all aspects of landscape architecture, site lighting and irrigation design for numerous data centers and large industrial developments. Her experience includes successfully developing plans that meet the specialized security, site lighting and limited-access required by data centers while complying with local code requirements for screening, tree cover, stormwater management, streetscape, sustainability, low-water use plants, efficient irrigation and lighting limitations at the property line to facilitate local permitting. Spector works closely with architects, MEP and civil engineers to coordinate designs and synchronize project delivery on aggressive schedules.
Landscape Architect
Professional Registration
Actapio
East Wenatchee, WA
Actapio
East Wenatchee, WA
Chris Hager
Managing Principal
Kyle Strumfels
Associate
Tim Stout
Associate Principal
Serena Jang
Principal
Leslie Wong
Senior Associate
Gary Bacon
Senior Associate
Ronald Manney
Associate
Jayne Spector
Senior Associate
Ryan Linthicum
Managing Principal
Stephanie Duffield
Project Engineer
Tim Stout
PE, CPESC, LEED AP
Associate Principal | Site/Civil | tstout@langan.com
For more than 20 years, Tim Stout has been providing civil engineering analysis, design, and project team management for a wide variety of data center and mission critical facilities. He has managed design teams and approval processes for numerous land-development projects, including site analysis and design, stormwater-management analysis and design, earthwork and site grading design, infrastructure and utility design, erosion- and sediment-control design, and land-use permitting through the agencies having jurisdiction. In the forefront of the industry, Stout has applied his expertise in design software such as AutoCAD Civil 3D and HydroCAD to numerous sustainable, low-impact designs in urban redevelopment.
Professional Engineer
Certified Professional in Erosion and Sedimentation Control
Professional Registration
Ronald Manney
PE
Associate | Geotechnical | rmanney@langan.com
Ronald Manney has over 15 years of experience providing geotechnical engineering services to data center and mission-critical projects in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States, and in numerous regions around the globe. His management and engineering experience includes fast-track and design-build geotechnical investigations, geotechnical design of shallow and deep foundation systems, ground-improvement system implementation, geotechnical assistance with MEP design (soil thermal conductivity and resistivity testing), building retrofit and analysis of existing foundations, construction specification preparation, construction administration and assistance, and geophysical analysis.
Professional Engineer
Professional Registration
DATA CENTER AND MISSION CRITICAL FACILITIES
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DJ Hodson
Managing Principal
PE, LEED AP
“Since the dawn of the dot-com era in the 1990s, we have provided a range of ground-and-down services for clients around the country. Often times, data center sites must be upgraded to support the structures and protect mission critical operations. Whether we’re tackling poor soil conditions, large column loads, utilities coordination, or accounting for differential settlement, our goal remains the same – apply our integrated services and expertise to deliver facilities that help meet the exponential demand for data.”
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- Serena Jang, Associate Principal, Langan
CoreSite VA3 Data Center
Reston, VA
Actapio
East Wenatchee, WA
Equinix Data Centers
San Jose, CA
Equinix NY4
Secaucus, NJ
Turkcell Data Center
Turkey
NTT Silicon Valley SV1 Data
Santa Clara, CA
Equinix NY4
Secaucus, NJ
16 MW | HYDROPOWERED
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Turkcell Data Center
SERVICES PROVIDED
Geotechnical
Turkey
16 MW | HYDROPOWERED
PROJECT OVERVIEW
NTT Silicon Valley SVI Data Centers
Santa Clara, CA
16 MW | HYDROPOWERED
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Equinix Data Centers
San Jose, CA
16 MW | HYDROPOWERED
PROJECT OVERVIEW
CoreSite VA3 Data Center
Reston, VA
16 MW | HYDROPOWERED
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Actapio
SERVICES PROVIDED
Site/Civil, Environmental, Geotechnical, Landscape Architecture
Geotechnical
Environmental
Landscape Architecture
East Wenatchee, WA
16 MW | HYDROPOWERED
PROJECT OVERVIEW
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SITE/CIVIL
- Land development and permitting
- Watershed modeling
- Floodplain impact assessment
- Due diligence, master planning, and feasibility services
- Traffic impact analysis
ENVIRONMENTAL
- Air Quality Dispersion Modeling, Compliance
and Permitting
- Spill Contingency Planning
- Stormwater Discharge Evaluations/Permitting (NPDES)
- Site Assessment, Design, and Remediation
GEOTECHNICAL
- Soil Thermal-Resistivity/Corrosivity Testing
- Groundwater Assessment
- Investigation of complex foundation designs
- Existing utility assessment
- Seismic/Earthquake Engineering and Base Isolation
SURVEY
- Conventional Surveys
- 3D building Scans
- GIS Data Management
- Mobile Mapping
- UAS Mapping
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
- Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
- Tree, Site Lighting, Camera Layout Coordination
- Coordination of municipality standards
- Water-conservation design
ESG, EHS & DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
- Decarboniziation/GHG Emission Management
- Renewable Energy Management
- Climate Resiliency Methods
- Data Management Systems Integration/Automation
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Langan provided multi-disciplinary support for the development of a 16MW data center. Our site/civil team optimized layout, earthwork, and stormwater management strategies, and prepared plans and land development permit applications. The landscape design interfaced closely with the architecture and included a Japanese-influenced tsuboniwa. Our geotechnical engineers evaluated subsurface conditions, seismicity, and geologic hazards to provide recommendations for foundations, subgrade, grading, excavation, and hardscapes, and to identify impacts from electrical and thermal soil characteristics.
16 MW | HYDROPOWERED
Langan provided multidiscipline engineering services for CoreSite’s first East Coast technology park. Langan’s site design, including air quality permit approval for 34 emergency generators, needed no revisions and was approved on the first pass. Additionally, our team delivered a fast-track design package, complete with 100% site and foundation designs--thereby, further compressing the construction schedule. Deliverables included topographic and utility surveys, an easement plan, and design plans for utility erosion control, stormwater management, geotechnical report, specifications, and soil and hazardous-materials management.
SERVICES PROVIDED
Site/Civil, Environmental, Geotechnical, Landscape Architecture, Survey
50 MW | DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT
Equinix Data Centers
SERVICES PROVIDED
Site/Civil, Environmental, Geotechnical
Langan is providing multidisciplinary services for the Equinix development, a multiphased project consisting of three data centers—SV5, SV10, and SV11—on the 11.5-acre site. Our investigations identified that moderately compressible and highly expansive soil was present. Because the data centers are settlement sensitive, we provided recommendations for pile foundations. During construction, we observed installation of auger cast-in-place foundations and provided density tests in the field.
SERVICES PROVIDED
Geotechnical
Langan performed a geotechnical investigation to evaluate subsurface conditions and potential geologic hazards, developed recommendations for driven and auger cast piles, and provided supplemental recommendations for concrete pads within the generator yard and shipping and receiving areas. We also developed site-specific response spectra to evaluate the base-isolated building’s seismic response to the risk-targeted maximum considered earthquake. Silicon Valley SV1 Data Center is the first facility in Santa Clara to use an earthquake-resistant design featuring a base isolation system.
16 MW | N+1 redundancy
SERVICES PROVIDED
Geotechnical
Langan was engaged to provide a site-specific earthquake study, review available data, and develop site-specific response spectra for the maximum considered earthquake and design earthquake. These spectra were developed in accordance with the 2006 International Building Code. Langan also performed probabilistic and deterministic seismic-hazard analyses. Turkcell’s 30-megawatt infrastructure is supported by 2N+1 redundancy and has a Tier III design certificate and a LEED Gold certificate — a mark of sustainability and energy efficiency.
30MW | 2N+1 REDUNDANCY
SERVICES PROVIDED
Site/Civil, Geotechnical
Langan conducted a subsurface investigation at a warehouse for proposed interior water tanks. Our geotechnical design recommendations included drilled mini-piles that could be constructed inside the warehouse with relatively low headroom, and driven timber-pile foundations for the tanks. Other design services included a zoning analysis and approvals, preparation of site drawings for submission to the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, utility coordination with other consultants, soil-erosion approvals from the soil conservation district, and zoning approval from the NJMC.
54MW | DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT
Sony David
Associate Principal
Sony David
PE, LEED AP
Associate Principal | Site/Civil | sdavid@langan.com
Sony David has over 20 years of experience and has worked on a variety of land development projects throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. These projects have involved site feasibility studies, site layout, grading and drainage design, stormwater management analysis and design, utility design, sanitary sewer design, regulatory permitting and construction inspection. David has extensive experience in the use of computer applications including AutoCAD, Land Development Desktop, Hydraflow Hydrographs and Hydraflow Storm Sewers.
Professional Engineer
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“Since the dawn of the dot-com era in the 1990s, we have provided a range of ground-and-down services for clients around the country. Often times, data center sites must be upgraded to support the structures and protect mission critical operations.
DATA CENTER AND MISSION CRITICAL FACILITIES
John Kostyo
Senior Project Manager
John Kostyo
PE
Senior Project Manager | Site/Civil | jkostyo@langan.com
Mr. Kostyo is a Senior Project Manager and Mission Critical Land Development lead at Langan that manages multi-discipline engineering teams with a focus on full design services for large, hyperscale data center and high-tech developments. He has diverse geographical and multi-scale projects with professional licenses in 11+ states. Mr. Kostyo has managed projects through all design phases including due diligence, master planning and construction for 25+ years including permitting and public testimony representing projects at municipal hearings. Mr. Kostyo works with corporate clients, government regulatory agencies, and utility companies both domestically and internationally.
Engineer in Training
Professional Registration
Stephanie Friel
Project Engineer
Michael Patterson
CPEA, LEED AP
Senior Project Scientist
ESG Transaction Advisory
mpatterson@langan.com
Mike works in Langan’s ESG and M&A Consulting practice, and is located in Langan’s Dallas office. He has 30 years of experience assessing environmental, health, and safety issues for multi-national transactions. Mike provides strategic support throughout the deal cycle to private equity, legal, industrial, and commercial investment clients. His experience includes pre- and post- deal closure EHS/ESG assessment, risk and liability quantification, regulatory compliance auditing, integration, and management for multiple clients over the full spectrum of federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations..
Certified Professional Environmental Auditor
LEED Accredited Professional
Certified ISO 140001 Lead Assessment Audito
Professional Registration
PE
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Anna Ilao
Senior Landscape Architect
Anna Ilao
Senior Landscape Architect | Landscape Architecture & Planning | allao@langan.com
Anna Ilao has been in the landscape architecture industry for over 20 years. She has extensive experience in landscape design, site planning and programming, sustainable design solutions, and project management for data centers, education, retail, workplace, streetscapes, parks, aviation, mixed-use and healthcare projects in California and Arizona. Ilao is proficient in best management practices, low impact development and water conservation techniques. In addition to her work with Langan, she has served as juror at UCLA Extension’s thesis presentations and guest critic in advanced design classes.
PLA, ASLA
Certified Hazardous Materials Manager
Professional Registration
Sony David
Associate Principal
Sony David
PE, LEED AP
Associate Principal
Site/Civil
sdavid@langan.com
Mr. David has over 20 years of experience and has worked on a variety of land development projects throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. These projects have involved site feasibility studies, site layout, grading and drainage design, stormwater management analysis and design, utility design, sanitary sewer design, regulatory permitting and construction inspection. Mr. David has extensive experience in the use of computer applications including AutoCAD, Land Development Desktop, Hydraflow Hydrographs and Hydraflow Storm Sewers.
Professional Engineer
Professional Registration
Katherine Regina
Senior Project Manager
Latisha Garrett
Project Engineer
Latisha Garrett
PE
Project Engineer | Site-Structural | lgarrett@langan.com
Latisha Garrett is a licensed professional engineer and is an ACI certified Concrete Field Technician – Grade I. Her experience is centered on structural design and analysis for reinforced concrete, steel, and wood structures. Garrett is also an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers, Engineers Without Borders, and American Institute of Steel Construction.
Certified Professional Environmental Auditor
LEED Accredited Professional
Certified ISO 140001 Lead Assessment Audito
Professional Registration
Katherine Regina
PE, LEED AP
Senior Project Manager | Site/Civil | kregina@langan.com
Katherine Regina has 15 years of site/civil engineering experience in a wide range of challenging land development projects, including data centers. Her experience ranges from conceptual planning and due diligence through construction and includes: soil erosion and sedimentation control, site demolition, site grading, stormwater management, hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, utility design, and sustainable/energy efficient design.
Certified Professional Environmental Auditor
LEED Accredited Professional
Certified ISO 140001 Lead Assessment Audito
Professional Registration
Leslie Wong
Senior Associate
Kyle Strumfels
Associate
Leslie Wong
CPEA, LEED AP
Senior Associate
ESG Strategy and Program Management
lwong@langan.com
Ms. Wong specializes in ESG strategy/disclosure, energy efficiency, and carbon accounting. She has 30 years of experience in environmental management with a specific focus on ESG services over the past 15 years. She has assisted a range of clients from the waste services, manufacturing and energy industries with carbon footprinting, GHG reduction strategy development and implementation, carbon credit generation, energy efficiency studies, and ESG disclosure implementation.
Certified Professional Environmental Auditor
LEED Accredited Professional
Certified ISO 140001 Lead Assessment Audito
Professional Registration
Leslie Wong
CPEA, LEED AP
Senior Associate
ESG Strategy and Program Management
lwong@langan.com
Ms. Wong specializes in ESG strategy/disclosure, energy efficiency, and carbon accounting. She has 30 years of experience in environmental management with a specific focus on ESG services over the past 15 years. She has assisted a range of clients from the waste services, manufacturing and energy industries with carbon footprinting, GHG reduction strategy development and implementation, carbon credit generation, energy efficiency studies, and ESG disclosure implementation.
Certified Professional Environmental Auditor
LEED Accredited Professional
Certified ISO 140001 Lead Assessment Audito
Professional Registration
Senior Associate
ESG Strategy and Program Management
lwong@langan.com
Senior Project Manager
Site/Civil
kregina@langan.com