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Whether partnering on a client’s expansion or leading pre-construction services on a new facility, Langan is a full-service partner to our clients – providing multidisciplinary engineering and permitting services. Also, Langan’s detailed feasibility studies can help you navigate through the land development due diligence process by providing a comprehensive report about any and all site issues before you make the critical go/no-go decision.
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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. 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.”
Serena Jang, PRINCIPAL, LANGAN
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Environmental Compliance & Permitting
Stephanie Duffield
Senior Project Manager
Doylestown, PA
The construction of data centers can come along with many regulatory, compliance, and permitting requirements. Our team helps clients navigate these requirements to reduce impacts on construction timelines.
Foundation Design
serena jang
Principal
San Jose, CA
Data centers require significant foundation considerations—from underground utilities to the impact of adjacent buildings to mitigating earthquake risks. We help our clients make sure these complex foundations maximize the building's safety and stability.
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Site Feasibility
Chris HAGER
Managing Principal
Philadelphia, PA
From site feasibility to design, we help clients in all aspects of data center development. It is critical to identify site challenges and concerns upfront—especially when it comes to power and water usage.
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TEAM-WIDE COORDINATION & COLLABORATION
RICHARD LO
Associate
Austin, TX
Data center projects operate at a rapid pace, requiring team-wide coordination from the start. We leverage our multidisciplinary expertise to encourage collaboration, remain nimble throughout development, and help clients navigate challenges related to noise mitigation and community concerns.
PROJECT TIMELINES & PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY
sPENCER HUMPHREY
Associate Principal
Bellevue, WA
Data center developments prioritize speed to market because of surging consumer demands. Our site/civil team takes the lead on master planning, stormwater design, utilities, grading, and entitlements to keep projects on schedule while sharing clear, accessible project information and updates with the public.
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AIR PERMITTING & WATER DISCHARGE
Danielle SANDELLA
Principal
New Haven, CT
It’s no secret that data centers have extensive water and air permitting requirements. Langan’s integrated team gets involved during the preliminary stages of development to help clients locate water sources and discharge outlets, implement sustainable equipment to reduce emissions, and proactively plan for current and future needs.
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Terremark expanded its data center campus, Network Access Point West, to provide approximately 100,000 SF of raised floor space, helping meet the demand for data-intensive colocation, high-security, and cloud hosting space in Silicon Valley.
Santa Clara, CA
Terremark Data Center
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A two-story, multi-phased data center campus on a 45-acre site.
Hillsboro, OR
Digital Realty PDX 11/12 Data Center
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Located on an 11.5-acre site, these three data centers serve as facilities for private clients, house computer servers, and support equipment in environmentally controlled structures.
San Jose, CA
Equinix Data Centers
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A three-building, 138,000-SF data center campus delivering 128MW
of power for a cloud infrastructure provider.
Hillsboro, OR
NTT HI1-3 Data Center Campus
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Located on a 44-acre site, this 100,000 SF data center facility supports Actapio's operations in Eastern Washington.
East Wenatchee, WA
Actapio Data Center
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This four-story, 160,000 SF data center offers 16MW of total critical IT load.
Santa Clara, CA
NTT Silicon Valley SV1 Data Center
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The 338,967 SF data center provides access to 18.5MW of power.
Secaucus, NJ
Equinix NY4 Data Center
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This technology park converted four office buildings into a 660,000 SF data center with parking, loading areas, landscaping, and associated utilities.
Reston, VA
CoreSite VA3 Data Center
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Vantage Data Centers’ WI1 Lighthouse campus includes four state-of-the-art facilities spanning more than 2.5 million SF.
Port Washington, WI
Vantage Data Centers’ WI1 Lighthouse Campus
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A greenfield data center campus on a 68-acre site, designed to support approximately 89MW of power across three buildings totaling 775,000 SF.
Quincy, WA
Vantage Data Centers WA1 Campus
Designed to withstand Category 5 hurricane-level winds
Building floor stands 32 feet above sea level
Terremark Data Center
Santa Clara, CA
Challenge
The presence of moderately expansive near-surface clay, moderately compressible clay of varying thickness, and layers of potentially liquefiable silt and sand.
2.1 Million SF
82,000 Seats
Solution
Langan performed geotechnical investigations to assess the subsurface risks; observed the installation of building foundations, including footings and auger cast piles; and conducted density testing during site grading and utility trench backfill.
Digital Realty PDX 11/12 Data Center
Hillsboro, OR
Challenge
Coordinating 3,700 linear feet of required public roadway improvements, project phasing, and approvals without negatively impacting the cost or schedule.
Designed to- meet Uptime Institute’s TIER III classification
Solution
During the due diligence phase, Langan identified an opportunity to pursue transportation improvement credits tied to required roadway work. Through coordination with local agencies, the team secured approximately $700,000 in reimbursement credits for the client.
Home to a range of network services, content, social media, software/SAAS, cloud, and IT services companies
Equinix Data Centers
Game day operatIons
San Jose, CA
Challenge
Maintaining compliance regarding the stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) and facilitating adherence to regulations and best management practices (BMP) among the project team.
Serves the world’s largest concentration of high-tech companies with access to important financial and enterprise ecosystems
Solution
As the SWPPP inspector, Langan performed weekly, quarterly, pre-storm, during-storm, and post-storm BMP and non-BMP inspections to identify potential violations. We worked directly with the contractor to address concerns immediately, closely coordinating our response with the owner and subcontractors as needed.
NTT HI1-3 Data Center Campus
Hillsboro, OR
Challenge
Managing shallow groundwater, undocumented fill, phased construction constraints, and airport-related height and crane limitations that impacted design and sequencing.
Solution
Langan supported master planning for multiple build-out scenarios and developed phased civil solutions, including an expandable underground detention system to support future campus growth.
Provides 36MW of Critical load
Provides Global Reach to Asia Pacific markets
Hydropowered by Washington's low-cost, clean hydroelectric power
Actapio Data Center
East Wenatchee, WA
Challenge
Addressing environmental concerns detected during our Phase II ESA, related to total petroleum hydrocarbons exceeding cleanup levels set by the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA).
Solution
We recommended excavating the impacted material and properly disposing of it at an offsite landfill to confirm compliance with the MTCA.
NTT Silicon Valley SV1 Data Center
Santa Clara, CA
Challenge
Evaluating the earthquake-resistant base isolation system, subsurface conditions, and potential geologic hazards.
The first facility in Santa Clara to implement an earthquake-resistant design featuring a base isolation system
N+1 redundancy
Retractable Roof
Solution
Langan developed site-specific response spectra to evaluate the base-isolated building's seismic response to risk-targeted maximum considered earthquakes and design earthquakes. We also provided recommendations for driven and auger cast piles and supplemental suggestions for concrete pads within the generator yard and shipping and receiving areas.
Equinix NY4 Data Center
Secaucus, NJ
Challenge
Introducing additional loading within the building based on expected data center usage and constructing water storage tanks adjacent to building.
151,772 SF colocation space
18.5MW total power
Design-build project
Solution
Langan conducted a subsurface investigation and recommended constructing drilled minipiles within the building and driven timber pile foundations for the exterior water tanks.
State-of-the-art mechanical and electrical infrastructure
CoreSite VA3 Data Center
Reston, VA
Challenge
Finalizing the site plan in compliance with Fairfax County, Fairfax Water, Virginia Department of Transportation, and Virginia Department of Environmental Quality regulations and client specifications.
Provides low latency, rapid scalability, and flexibility to meet evolving requirements
Solution
Langan ensured compliance with all regulatory requirements to provide a proposed layout, which involved preparing all the necessary drawings and documentation required for site plan submission and approval, including parking configuration, building locations, utility layout and design, fire-lane planning, erosion control, grading, and stormwater management.
Vantage Data Centers’ WI1 Lighthouse Campus
Port Washington, WI
Challenge
Delivering a nearly 1 GW hyperscale data center campus while preserving sensitive wetlands on site.
Solution
Langan supported Vantage Data Centers with integrated site/civil engineering, geotechnical investigations, landscape architecture, site lighting, and asbestos surveying to enable efficient, large-scale development. The design strategically preserved high-quality wetlands and enhanced lower-quality wetland areas, allowing the project to advance responsibly while supporting major economic impact through thousands of construction and indirect jobs.
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Vantage Data Centers WA1 Campus
Quincy, WA
Challenge
Selecting and entitling an optimal site while managing complex land use approvals, utility coordination, phased development, and coordination with multiple jurisdictions throughout an extensive project timeline.
Solution
Langan led master planning, site selection, civil design, and entitlement efforts, including stormwater management design, utility service agreements, and platting for future infrastructure. The team coordinated closely with local agencies and leveraged long-standing relationships to support phased delivery, including design integration for below-grade routing and long-term campus expansion.
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