Background

This commercial development project consisted of three single-storey data centres, split into three phases on a 95 hectacre (Ha) greenfield site in Clonee, Co Meath, Ireland. The data centre buildings include roof top mechanical equipment and measure up to 8.6m to the roof eaves, with a parapet wall up to 9.1m and a roof mounted plant screen wall around roof mechanical equipment up to 15.9m. The site infrastructure includes access roads, car parking, internal roads, entrance security hut, landscaping and a 220kV substation. This case study provides insight into integrated lean-BIM implementation on a Data Centre project in Dublin, Ireland, constituting highly modular off-site production. The project effectively acted as a system comprising of hundreds of such off-site modules. Hence, the team had to factor in each micro-level-detail of logistics, production pace, resources, and other potential constraints.

Challenges