Data Center Construction in Irving and Las Colinas, Texas

Financial institutions, insurers, carriers and software firms in Las Colinas need a data center builder that understands how much of their business rides on a few rooms, and we build those rooms. Irving's corporate and airport-adjacent districts call for enterprise halls, network entrances and recovery sites with serious power and cooling behind them, and for site teams who can work in a congested, heavily regulated part of the metro.

The geography is well suited to fiber and power. State Highway 183 crosses the middle of the city, I-635 runs along the north edge, and State Highway 114 and the President George Bush Turnpike cross in an X. Las Colinas, a planned mixed-use community of more than 12,000 acres, is centered near that crossing, and part of DFW Airport itself lies inside Irving. A DART line connects Las Colinas to the airport.

Our job is to turn that connectivity into dependable building. We begin with the critical load and the resilience target, locate the electrical and mechanical yards, and then fit the data hall to a site that is often tight, visible and surrounded by other tenants.

The city's top employers in the 2021 to 2022 report included a global bank with 6,162 jobs, a power company with 5,400, an insurer with 3,068, a telecommunications carrier with 3,000 and a software company with 2,681. Several other large corporations are headquartered here, including an engineering firm, a consumer products maker, a metals producer and a retail electricity provider, and a heavy equipment maker announced a move of its headquarters to Irving in June 2022.

That mix of banking, telecom and energy buyers shapes our work. Financial owners lean toward concurrently maintainable halls and strict change control. Carriers care about route diversity and cross-connect space. Power companies care about continuity of control systems. See enterprise and financial institutions and telecom and network carriers for how those briefs differ.

The typical Irving project is not a campus. It is a retrofit of floor space in a multi-tenant office tower, a stand-alone enterprise hall on an office park pad, or a carrier room attached to a larger building. Each has special constraints: structural capacity of existing floors, riser availability, fuel storage rules in a mixed-use district and the need to keep other tenants comfortable.

For carrier-oriented work we point owners to our carrier hotel and meet-me room page. For smaller recovery or branch sites, edge data center shows the compact option. When the project grows beyond a single floor, our phased expansion build-outs scope explains how we leave room for the next stage.

Because part of DFW Airport lies within the city, many Irving parcels sit close to flight paths. Tall cranes and exhaust stacks may need airspace review, so we check heights against airport requirements during design. Noise, vibration and temporary closures are managed with the same care as for any busy mixed-use district.

Roadway geometry matters too. The X of SH 114 and the Bush Turnpike and the SH 183 spine mean that equipment delivery needs a careful route plan, with permits and escorts where required. We schedule the largest moves at night when allowed and keep staging off public rights-of-way. Our construction cleanliness and safety plan protects neighboring tenants from dust.

A built-out city has little room for mistakes at the permit counter. Mechanical, electrical and fire reviews are all required, and fuel storage and battery rooms get extra scrutiny from fire officials. We prepare submittals with the code editions that Irving enforces, confirm them directly with the city, and add narrative sheets for the unusual systems so reviewers do not have to guess.

State law gives cities a 2012 building-code floor and lets them adopt newer editions by ordinance, so we do not assume that Irving looks like any other metro city. For deeper detail on how we handle approvals and utility paths, see permitting and utility interconnection.

Retrofit schedules in a multi-tenant tower are built around outages and quiet hours. Core drilling, riser work and tie-ins to live power are often limited to nights and weekends, and each shutdown needs a written method, a rollback step and an owner sign-off. We sequence the quiet work first, the noisy work next and the final cutover last, and we rehearse the cutover on paper with the facility team.

Elevators, loading docks and freight routes are shared with other tenants. We reserve dock time, protect finishes along the route and keep a floor plan of every temporary opening. When a heavy piece like a generator or battery cabinet must be hoisted, we agree on the crane day, street closure and weather backup well ahead of the pick, and confirm them again the day before.

Irving owners who want more land or a different utility often look at DFW Airport, where airport-controlled ground follows its own rules, or at Dallas, with its own code stack. We can price Irving against either on the same terms, and we will say plainly if another site fits the program better.

Cooling deserves its own comparison. A tower floor may have limited space for dry coolers or a chiller, while a pad site can host a full plant but may face noise and screening rules. We draw both options with equipment footprints, pipe routes and sound estimates, so that the choice rests on drawings instead of assumptions. That drawing set is usually the most useful single document an owner receives from us at the start of a project.

Share the building, the load and the date. We will respond with a structural and utility checklist, a conceptual layout and a first schedule.

Can you convert office space to a data hall?

Sometimes. The deciding factors are floor loading, ceiling height, riser space, access for heavy equipment and the rules on fuel storage and batteries. We start with a structural and utility survey, then report whether the space can carry the load or whether a new building makes more sense.

How does airport proximity affect cranes and stacks?

Heights near an airport can trigger review. We check crane and exhaust stack heights against the airport requirements during design and plan lifts around them. If a limit applies, we adjust the equipment location or the stack design on paper before anything is ordered.

What matters most for a bank or insurer?

Concurrent maintainability, strict change control and a commissioning record that can be audited. We build the electrical and mechanical paths so that any component can be serviced without interrupting the load, and we document the test results in a form your auditors can follow.

Do you build carrier-neutral meet-me rooms?

We build the physical space: hardened rooms, diverse conduit entrances, cable tray, power and cooling. Carrier agreements and cross-connect management belong to the operator. We coordinate entrances with the construction team of each carrier on request.

How long does a retrofit of an office floor usually take?

The answer depends on utility capacity, long-lead equipment and permit review rather than on the demolition. We give a range only after the structural and utility survey, and we identify the longest item in the schedule so you can see what would shorten it. Equipment orders usually set the pace.