PROJECT SNAPSHOT
A national consulting engineering firm working across structural, civil and MEP disciplines, with a growing concentration of hyperscale and enterprise data center work. As clients awarded larger packages and expected faster turnarounds, the firm needed additional capacity so its engineers could stay focused on design and client-facing work.
Away Digital built a dedicated team selected specifically for data center delivery, contributing to live projects while the engagement was still being refined.
SERVICES DELIVERED
- Revit modeling and documentation aligned to the firm’s standards and workflows
- Clash detection and federated model management integrated into weekly delivery rhythms
- Coordination of structural slab penetrations, MEP routing and load path documentation
KEY DELIVERABLES
- Project BIM protocols established within the first few weeks of engagement
- Coordinated drawing sets maintained across multiple discipline packages simultaneously
- Penetration conflicts identified and resolved within the firm’s federated models
PROJECT CHALLENGES
Domestic capacity had reached a ceiling as data center project volumes climbed
Clients were awarding larger packages and expecting faster turnarounds
Data center projects demanded technical precision well beyond generalist modeling and documentation, across tight floor plates where five disciplines converge
Construction program pressure and power-on milestone obligations left little room for documentation delays
KEY OUTCOMES
- 55-65% cost saving per role compared to an equivalent onshore resource, including salary, benefits, office overhead, recruitment and management time
- Two to three weeks recovered on key project milestones, achieved through parallel documentation and modeling capacity that would otherwise have queued behind onshore resourcing constraints
- A material reduction in RFI volume and a measurable improvement in first-pass documentation quality
- Over successive projects, the team developed a detailed understanding of the firm’s design intent and began flagging coordination issues proactively
This engagement demonstrated how a dedicated team calibrated to a specific asset class can lift both capacity and quality. By embedding into the firm’s Revit standards and federated model workflows from the outset, the Away Digital team absorbed the documentation and coordination workload behind a growing data center pipeline, recovering program time while giving the firm’s engineers more time for design and client work.
