Data Center Services
Owner’s Representation
At FOCUS, our goal is to become your trusted partner for critical facility construction. Using an Owner's Representative can be a cost conscious way to reduce or eliminate pricey mark-ups, provide a critical layer of peer review or supplement expertise not available in-house. We believe an effective approach starts in the pre-construction phase by taking the time to truly understand your financial model and the business case for the project. This must happen before the first line is drawn or shovel lifted and includes understanding the intricacies of your desired outcome and the processes you want followed. With this understanding established, we can then combine decades of critical facility experience with deep technical and infrastructure acumen to expertly represent your interest by guiding the design firms, construction team and other vendors through the planning, equipment specification, integration, construction, commissioning and testing processes.
A successful critical facility construction project requires a balance between technical expertise and construction know-how, between innovation and discipline. It requires strong, experienced leadership, business acumen and long-term, reliable vendor relationships. FOCUS provides this and more to every critical facility construction project we undertake to make sure your project maintains a firm grip on budget, quality and schedule.
Project & Program Management
As a Project Manager, FOCUS can work within your project goals to provide additional services and resources to your critical facility construction or up-grade project. These services can include:
Program and Project Strategy
Program, Project and Master Planning
Cost estimates, budgets, and scheduling
Vendor and contractor vetting, recommendation and selection
Project Execution and Management
We can help you integrate budget, schedule, and scope - from scope definition to role assignment. We will detail everything that needs to be done and who’s responsible for what. We'll work with you to evaluate project risks and determine how they’ll be managed, and we'll establish strategies for regulatory approvals, procurement, contracting and construction. This allows you to feel confident that your entire project program is designed around an optimal solution to meet your project goals at a price that is both competitive and affordable.
Once the project is underway, we will establish processes and reporting to ensure on-going adherence to budget and schedule and we will advise you during important decision-making gates so as to avoid delays or cost overruns. From design development to close-out we will supply oversight to the design and construction teams to continually drive the project to meet established quality objectives and evolving project needs.
You can trust FOCUS’s team to be your strategic partner, ensuring that the final product will meet the project’s financial, schedule and performance goals.
Post-occupancy Support
As your project approaches completion, our involvement need not stop there. Whether its us helping with the selection or installation of a comprehensive Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), providing maintenance consulting, or establishing standards and procedures for a full scale infrastructure preventative and emergency service program, we have expertise and the wherewithal to help you establish both short- and long-term facility optimization and continued reliability programs.