2021 Book of Cases

Lean Construction Ireland Annual Book of Cases 2021 39 Case 10 Jacobs leads the global professional services sector, providing solutions for a more connected, sustainable world. Headquartered in Dallas,Texas, with approximately US$14 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of services including scienti c, technical, professional, construction, and program management for business, industrial, commercial, government, and infrastructure sectors. Jacobs established its rst international of ce outside the USA in Ireland in 1974.Today, the company employs more than 1,100 people across its Dublin, Cork, and Belfast offices, serving the Life Sciences, Advanced Manufacturing, Data Centre, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, and environmental sectors, amongst others. Over the past 30 years,we have developed one of the largest global data centre practices in the world, providing integrated planning, design, and construction services for critical facilities. Ranked #1 in data centres by ENR and Building Design +Construction magazines, we have delivered over 17 million square feet of data centre space and have 15 mission-critical centres of excellence housing our global subject matter experts, including one in Dublin. This case study focuses on Lean in Design and the application of Lean thinking and practices to help bring Hyperscale to Colocation, and outlines our journey to “Cloud Condos”.The world’s biggest hyperscalers are also big users of colocation (“colo”) services. This case study presents how Jacobs incorporated Lean thinking and methodologies to innovate and develop a standardised but nimble design approach –“Cloud Condos”approach – to colocation for hyperscalers, which are plugged together 5MW modules at a time and can provide a better fit for their needs.This helped bridge Hyperscale and Colocation data centre design approaches and provided solutions for both. Figure 1. CloudCondos Company Overview JACOBS jacobs.com Overview & Background to the Lean Initiative Maurice Gillen Author Laura Reed Author Kenneth Kutsmeda Author David Seger Author Paul D’Onofrio Author Colocation & Hyperscale Definitions In the data centre sector, Colocation (Colo) is the practice of renting space for servers and other computing hardware at a third-party provider’s data centre facility.Typically, colocation services include the building in which everything is housed, as well as networking,physical security, redundant power, and redundant cooling components, which then support the servers and storage provided by the customer. The term “Hyperscalers” refers to large companies like Google, Facebook, andAmazon that design and build large-scale computing facilities which dominate the public cloud and cloud services industries. In computing terminology, hyperscale is the ability of the architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system. The Nimble Initiative With the rapid growth of the data centre sector over the past decade, accelerated even further by the Covid pandemic, data centre providers are seeking solutions to accelerate their entry into new markets as well as capacity growth in existing ones.To meet demand as quickly as possible, many of the hyperscale data centre providers are turning to colocation developers who have Lean Initiative Undertaken – Lean Thinking, Tools, Techniques Figure 2. Colocation

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