Data Centers

Cooper Cox

National Market Segment Leader - Telecom

Building or upgrading a data center requires extensive planning to integrate dense infrastructure, thousands of servers, networking equipment, and cooling systems. Even small construction errors can cause delays and operational inefficiencies.

Accurate site as-builts are critical from initial design through commissioning and ongoing facility management. Clear records of utilities, structures, and systems accelerate design and reduce subsurface damage, change orders, delays, and costs.

We Understand Your Data Center Construction Challenges

Aggressive Timelines: Rapid timelines demand speed without sacrificing quality or safety.

Infrastructure Upgrades: Server, cooling, and power system upgrades must be planned carefully to maintain uptime and operational reliability.

MEP Integration: Upgrading MEP systems in dense infrastructure is challenging, as strict tolerances demand millimeter-level accuracy for prefabrication and installation.

Subcontractor Coordination: Managing multiple trades requires precise sequencing and communication to avoid clashes and schedule delays.

Regulatory Compliance: Local, national, and industry codes demand thorough documentation and regular inspections.

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GPRS Services for Data Center Construction

GPRS partners with data center owners, contractors, and design teams to deliver subsurface utility and structural as-built data that supports new builds, expansions, and retrofits. GPRS Project Managers are SIM-certified through a rigorous training program in utility locating, concrete scanning, reality capture, video pipe inspection and leak detection that exceeds industry standards. The certification includes over 400 hours of classroom, field, and LiDAR instruction to ensure safe, accurate, and compliant above and below ground as-built data collection.

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Utility Locating Services: Identifying underground utilities, including electrical, gas, water, sewer, steam, irrigation, and telecommunication lines prior to excavation helps prevent costly damage, serious injuries, project delays, and service interruptions. Read more about GPRS Utility Locating Services.

Concrete Scanning Services: Concrete scanning detects embedded objects like rebar, post-tension cables, and conduits in concrete slabs and walls, ensuring safe coring, drilling, and cutting during build-out. Read more about GPRS Concrete Scanning Services.

Reality Capture Services: 3D laser scanning with LiDAR captures precise structural and MEP layouts, seamlessly integrating with CAD and BIM. This enables accurate planning, clash detection, and efficient construction sequencing. Read more about GPRS Reality Capture Services.

Video Pipe Inspection Services: VPI services assess the condition and layout of underground sewer and storm systems, identifying blockages, structural issues, or misalignments before construction begins. Read more about GPRS Video Pipe Inspection Services.

Leak Detection Services: Early detection of hidden leaks in walls, ceilings, or underground sewers helps prevent costly repairs and downtime, ensuring critical operations remain safe and uninterrupted. Read more about GPRS Leak Detection Services.

SiteMap® GIS Software: GPRS’ secure, cloud-based platform and mobile app centralizes your project data into an interactive tool for easy access and file sharing. SiteMap provides facility managers with a comprehensive, real-time digital view of their infrastructure above and below ground, including utility maps, concrete imaging, 2D CAD drawings, 3D BIM models, NASSCO reports, and more, all customized to your project’s needs. Read more about GPRS SiteMap GIS Software.

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Data Center Construction Applications

As a data center owner, general contractor, or engineer, you know that every decision can impact uptime, reliability, and long-term value. GPRS helps you design, build, operate, and maintain your facilities with confidence. We’ve supported projects for leading providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and CyrusOne, and we can bring that same expertise to your site.

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New Construction: Building a new data center requires precise engineering and seamless coordination across trades. You need guaranteed access to power, water, and fiber connectivity, and you can’t afford surprises underground. GPRS identifies subsurface utilities to ensure safe tie ins and compliance with dig policies. After construction, our utility maps and reality capture as-builts give you a permanent record of actual conditions, supporting future expansions and retrofits.

Retrofits & Upgrades: When upgrading power systems, cooling solutions, or communication lines, downtime isn’t an option. GPRS provides detailed as-built records of structures and utilities so you can plan layouts, integrate systems, and avoid costly surprises. With accurate documentation, you reduce clashes, delays, and overruns, keeping your upgrades smooth and your operations reliable.

Facility Management: Your operations depend on Building Management Systems (BMS), but managing dense infrastructure requires more than monitoring equipment. GPRS’ SiteMap platform centralizes your records, utility maps, CAD drawings, and 3D models, into one secure, accessible system. This gives you a real time digital view of your facility, helping you optimize layouts, track assets, ensure compliance, and prepare for emergencies.

Commercial Real Estate Transactions: if you’re buying, selling, or developing data center properties, digital as-builts are a critical asset. GPRS documentation reduces liability, accelerates due diligence, and provides reliable insight into MEP systems. For owners, this means smoother transactions, stronger compliance, and a clear path for future expansion strategies.

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CUSTOM SERVICE PLANS

Rather than send a rigid rate sheet to prospective clients, GPRS can create a customized service plan. We take into account our industry experience, national footprint, and operational/scheduling capacity to craft a customized plan just for you.

Scheduling

With one single point of contact for your company, GPRS can schedule underground utility locating, 3D laser scanning, concrete scanning, video pipe inspection, and void detection services for your site with a simple phone call. There is no need to call multiple service providers across a region or nationally. GPRS has Project Managers in every major market in the US and our single point of contact will simplify your scheduling process.

Pricing

GPRS understands that clear, understandable, and consistent pricing is a big deal. Our nationwide footprint allows us to streamline our costs on a nationwide basis. We are sure to craft a cost structure that makes sense for the scope of work. Rather than send a blanket rate sheet, we consultatively compose pricing plans for each project.

Approach

Every campus, site, and facility pose different challenges. Since our inception, GPRS has completed hundreds of thousands of projects and relies on that experience when crafting a site-specific plan for safety, scanning, and reporting. With the SIM Specification as our guide, we will craft an individualized approach to each and every project. We Intelligently Visualize The Built World^® from facility mapping to utility locating prior to excavation, and will perform the right service for your scope of work.

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mapping & Modeling

GPRS improves project planning and communication by providing clear and understandable maps and models to help you Visualize The Built World^® and share your vision with subcontractors, designers, engineers, and others, easily.

GPRS delivers the most up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive site data possible in the format required for your project. We provide complimentary KMZ and PDF maps with every utility locate we perform. Our Mapping & Modeling Team can create a wide variety of customizable maps and models, from a simple GPS-enabled map of your utility locate, to highly-detailed 2D CAD drawings and 3D BIM models, depending on your needs.

AS BUILT DRAWINGS

Existing drawings don't always show the current conditions of a site. Drawings that are produced in the design phase of a project don't always reflect the exact location of the underground utilities and current as built site conditions. Renovations, repairs, and additions can all render as built drawings out of date. The GPRS Mapping & Modeling Team can deliver up-to-date as built drawings that reflect the actual vertical and horizontal position of underground facilities & features, and structural, architectural, and MEP site details.

2D MAPS & 3D MODELS

Utility locates, concrete scanning, and 3D laser scan data can be processed into up-to-date 2D maps and 3D models to ensure that your team has all the information you need to get the job done right. These maps and models provide an accurate record of utility locations and as-builts for project planning.

The GPRS Mapping & Modeling Team will deliver point cloud data, 2D CAD drawings, 3D BIM models, 3D meshes, TruViews, and virtual tours produced with the highest quality standards. We provide high-precision custom analysis and calculations such as dimensional callouts, tank calibration analysis, floor flatness and levelness analysis, deviation analysis, deformation analysis, volume calculations, wall plumb analysis, and more.

Maps, models, and analyses are produced and hosted for your use at any level of detail in a variety of formats such as Revit, AutoCAD, ReCap, Navisworks, Civil 3D, BIM360, A360, Bentley, Leica Cyclone, Cintoo, NavVis Ivion, and more. The GPRS Mapping & Modeling Team has optimized workflows for importing data, registration, creating maps and models, quality checks, and transferring data to clients. We deliver the data you need in the format you need to access up-to-date and accurate facility and infrastructure information.

SITEMAP^® MOBILE APP

When we conduct an underground utility locate, GPRS stores all subsurface infrastructure data in SiteMap^®, a secure digital platform that houses all your utility locate PDF and KMZ files. You can access your data from any laptop or mobile device and securely share it with your team. Within your files, you will find interactive subsurface maps, annotations, and more, where you can toggle layers and lines on or off to streamline information and communicate only the data you need. You can even measure site features and segment maps geographically to drill down to specific project points for prefabrication or excavation needs.
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GPRS Project Managers can complete multiple mobilizations to a jobsite – before, during and after construction – to record subsurface and as built data in real-time. The data captured can be tied together into living maps and models and saved into a database for reference.

How can GPRS can help you streamline your next project to Intelligently Visualize Your Built World^®?

One Call Program

GPRS exceeds industry performance when it comes to the accuracy of our utility locating. Our team of Project Managers can continue the support of your project by crafting a one-call program from when your project transitions to the O&M phase.

Public Property

Damage prevention is critical when excavating in a public right-of-way. Using the 811, call before you dig system, is an essential step to take when trying to avoid underground utility strikes. It's the law! GPRS is able to contract and perform one-call type utility locating for your underground assets.

Private Property

A utility locate on private property is not complete until a private utility locator like GPRS has been called to comprehensively locate the entire campus. GPRS can create a one-call type program for your facility or campus in the case that you have utilities that lie within public property.

Embedment

Our highly trained Project Managers have extensive experience locating conduits, rebar, cables, pipes, ducts, sleeves, and other hazards embedded in concrete slabs and other structures with ground penetrating radar technology. Cutting, coring, or drilling into these objects can cause damage to utilities and jeopardize the health and safety of workers on site.