Klover Featured in Global Data Center Hub: Building Data Center Enclosures Off-Site

Klover President Kristian Fields shares how prefabrication, BIM coordination and off-site construction are helping data center teams address labor constraints, accelerate schedules and create greater certainty.

Klover is proud to be featured in Global Data Center Hub, where President and Partner Kristian Fields recently sat down to discuss one of the most important challenges facing data center construction today: how to deliver increasingly complex facilities when schedules are tightening and skilled labor is becoming harder to find.

The feature, “Klover’s President On Building Data Center Enclosures Off-Site,” takes an in-depth look at how Klover is applying prefabrication and manufactured construction to data center projects throughout the Mid-Atlantic, including hyperscale data center construction in Northern Virginia and a major data center retrofit in Eastern Pennsylvania.

For Klover, the conversation goes beyond simply moving construction indoors. It is about changing how projects are planned, coordinated and executed.

Prefabrication Built Around Data Center Certainty

Data center construction operates in an environment where schedule certainty has become increasingly valuable. Owners, developers and general contractors are balancing enormous demand with workforce availability, power constraints, supply chain challenges and increasingly complex building systems.

Klover's approach begins long before materials arrive at the jobsite.

Through BIM and 3D coordination, Klover works with project teams to virtually coordinate assemblies before manufacturing begins. Cold-formed steel components can then be produced to precise dimensions, assembled into panels in Klover's controlled prefabrication environment and prepared for delivery based on the installation sequence in the field.

That process allows work traditionally performed on an active construction site to happen simultaneously with other project activities.

It also gives Klover another way to address one of the industry's biggest challenges: labor.

Rather than relying entirely on the availability of large field crews at the exact moment they are needed, prefabrication allows Klover to shift significant portions of the work into a controlled manufacturing environment. The result is a construction strategy designed around repeatability, coordination and predictable execution.

Building Data Center Enclosures Off-Site

The Global Data Center Hub feature provides a closer look at how that strategy is being implemented on real projects.

In Eastern Pennsylvania, Klover is prefabricating approximately 200,000 square feet of interior walls for electrical room enclosures. On hyperscale data center projects in Northern Virginia, Klover's scope includes exterior framing, wall panels and building enclosure systems, with panels coordinated through 3D modeling and assembled before arriving at the project site.

These are not simply smaller building components being manufactured indoors. The article describes exterior panels exceeding 45 feet in height, demonstrating how prefabrication can evolve to meet the scale and technical requirements of modern mission-critical construction.

That capability is supported by Klover's continued investment in people, technology, manufacturing capacity and physical infrastructure.

But technology and manufacturing space are only part of the equation. Successful data center prefabrication requires early collaboration between owners, designers, general contractors, trade partners and manufacturers. Decisions made months before installation can have a direct impact on what happens when panels ultimately reach the field.

That is why Klover views itself as more than a prefabrication supplier. We work as a construction partner from coordination through fabrication and installation.

Speed, Safety and Certainty

Moving construction off-site can help reduce congestion and workforce demands in the field while creating a controlled environment for repetitive construction activities. BIM coordination can help identify conflicts before fabrication, while manufacturing assemblies ahead of field installation can allow multiple portions of a project schedule to advance simultaneously.

Together, those advantages support the three principles driving Klover's approach to data center construction: speed, safety and certainty.

As data center demand continues to grow across Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic, solving the industry's capacity challenge will require more than simply adding workers to jobsites. It will require new approaches to how buildings are designed, coordinated, manufactured and assembled.

That is the larger conversation highlighted by Global Data Center Hub, and one Klover believes will become increasingly important as data center development continues to accelerate.

Certainty is the new currency.

Read the Global Data Center Hub Feature