Adaptability, integrity and speed to market are the required characteristics of these essential facilities. Financial institutions, universities, healthcare facilities, communications and information technology companies require robust yet quickly constructed structures for data storage and processing. Thornton Tomasetti has designed these facilities for different levels of redundancy ranging from Uptime Institutes Tier I to Tier IV systems.

The growth of the information and service economies has fueled enormous demand for mission-critical facilities that serve as information nerve centers. These facilities may serve as primary active operations centers or as redundant installations, or standbys for disaster recovery. We often design structural systems to withstand enhanced seismic and wind-loads exceeding local building code requirements, and sometimes hardened to withstand blast. In addition to new design, our experience encompasses renovation, conversion and the addition of on-site and off-site centers or stand-alone facilities.