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Chris Canter is manager of the virtual design coordination (VDC) team at Shapiro & Duncan, Inc., a third-generation, family-owned mechanical contracting business serving customers in the Washington, D.C. area since 1976. Shapiro & Duncan is the “Provider of Choice” for complex commercial, government, and institutional design-build projects that require first-rate performance, work quality, and customer service.
When it comes to mechanical design and construction, it doesn’t get any more demanding and exacting than building the heating, cooling, and ventilation systems in a gigantic data center.
Eighteen thousand feet of welded steel HVAC piping; 30,000 weld inches; 60 tractor-trailer loads of piping delivered to the jobsite: truly, building out a mechanical system for a large-scale data center can be a mammoth undertaking.
