Client Background
A major hyperscale data center owner and developer engaged Advastar while expanding large-scale campuses across multiple U.S. markets. The organization was responsible for guiding project strategy, managing significant capital investment, and ensuring alignment across development, engineering, construction, and long-term operations. Their projects required highly coordinated execution across multiple stakeholders, including EPC firms, general contractors, and specialty subcontractors, all working within aggressive timelines and strict performance requirements.
The Challenge
The client faced increasing pressure to scale its internal team in a highly competitive data center labor market. They needed experienced professionals who could support development, engineering, and construction oversight while maintaining visibility and control across multiple active projects. At the same time, they were preparing for long-term operations and needed to ensure that the right operations and maintenance talent was identified early in the project lifecycle. The challenge was not simply filling roles, but building a team capable of supporting complex, mission-critical infrastructure from planning through ongoing facility performance.
The Solution
Advastar partnered closely with the client’s leadership to support hiring across corporate, engineering, and construction oversight functions. We helped identify development and corporate professionals who could support planning, growth, and project execution. We also delivered engineers, designers, and drafters with experience in data center infrastructure and large-scale industrial environments. As construction progressed, we supported owner-side oversight by placing project managers and construction managers responsible for coordinating EPC and contractor partners. In parallel, we assisted with identifying operations and maintenance professionals, including critical facilities engineers and data center operations personnel, to support long-term facility reliability.
The Outcome
With stronger internal alignment across development, engineering, construction oversight, and operations, the client was able to improve coordination and maintain control across multiple hyperscale data center builds. Projects progressed with greater visibility into schedule and performance, and the early integration of operations talent supported a smoother transition into commissioning and long-term facility management. The client continued to engage Advastar as a trusted partner across additional data center expansions nationwide.