The Alliance

CPR [link]
Incorporating a business continuity strategy, as well as understanding IT trends and migration strategies throughout design, is an essential component to building a data center. Since 1982, CPR has provided thought leadership to help support our customers' business needs through the successful design and implementation of technology, a key component is a well-designed data center.

CPR employs a team of certified and experienced design and implementation specialists who focus solely on the unique needs of building data centers. They perform needs analysis, develop business continuity strategies and establish comprehensive build out plans working with clients from inception to implementation and also in a support capacity post-installation.

Feyen-Zylstra [link]
A data center is as unique as the company it supports. Therefore, there is no such thing as a template or typical electrical and communications infrastructure. Each solution should be customized to reflect client-specific needs.

"Custom," however, doesn't mean inflated cost. Our experienced project managers work with the client and construction manager to discover creative solutions and alternatives to what appears on blue prints. Collaboration and shared experience ensures a customdesigned end product and most often results in savings from the original budget.

Feyen-Zylstra Project managers are trained to ask the right questions at the right time, providing a construction process that anticipates problems, presents solutions and delivers a quality product on budget and schedule.

Hedrick Associates [link]
Cooling, power, and monitoring are essential components of every data center project. Each project calls for a combination of knowledge, experience, and artistry in order to configure solutions that not only meet today's needs, but are adaptable to changes in the future.

Hedrick Associates has specialized in data center infrastructure since 1981, with more than 2,000 successful projects in Western/Northern Michigan alone. These projects cover a wide spectrum, from small network closets to the majority of the area's largest, most critical data centers. Hedrick brings more than 70 years of combined staff experience in the areas of environmental control, power protection, and monitoring to every project.

Rockford Construction Company [link]
Construction Management brings the entire effort together. The structures housing, power, IT, and monitors are special. The integration of the systems are unique as well.

Our project managers see you through design, schedule development, material selection and construction. We meet standards for environmental control, utility infrastructure and security. Equally important, we keep the process on time and on budget despite the fact that we often work in occupied facilities that cannot afford to lose time, access or power.

Rockford Construction has a strong resume of successful design/build data center projects that incorporated best practices in construction methods and value engineering opportunities.