Mission Critical Solutions

When downtime is not an option.

The Tenant’s Advantage

When your systems are deemed essential to the very survival of your organization, you need a mission critical facility to house them. Cresa Mission Critical Solutions specializes in real estate with the stringent specifications and utility infrastructures that meet the requirements of maximum-uptime systems.

We represent occupiers exclusively, assuring you of objective, conflict-free advice backed by extensive experience in mission critical facilities, including:

n Data centers

n Electronic fulfillment centers

n Infrastructure and information Technology (IT) outsourcing

n Cloud computing and other as-a-Service (aaS) models

n Colocation (retail and wholesale)

n Managed service provider(s) (MSPs)

n Manufacturing operations

n Network operations centers (NOCs)

n Semiconductor and fabrication plants

n Telecommunications

Assessing your needs

n Location requirements

n Risk mitigation

n Utility considerations

n Broadband considerations

n Accessibility and personnel considerations

n Economic considerations

n Property considerations

Ask yourself this

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Planning for mission critical facilities can be quite complex. Here are a few questions that can start you thinking in the right direction:

If you’re having trouble answering any of these questions, a ten-minute phone call with us could be quite enlightening.

Do we have backup plans for our mission critical facilities?

What is our cost of downtime, and how much risk can we tolerate?

Which internal stakeholders should be included in the process?

What are our location requirements and preferences?

How can the right location save us money?

What are others doing to satisfy their mission critical needs?

Using the right tools

We routinely study trends, track candidate facilities, and maintain infrastructure maps across North America. This practice allows us to help you assess and identify solutions for your requirements using best-in-class tools, including:

A range of options

Depending on your needs and resources, our skilled team can help you determine which course of action is right for your company.

Taking charge of the project

Our project management team has the specialized knowledge to advise you from the property closing to the move-in of your equipment and people. In addition to the budget and schedule, we will manage the vendors and contractors, all in a timely, efficient manner. We also cover strategic analysis, construction management, project control, and risk assessment and reduction.

Managing your facilities

We provide a full range of services, including:

At Cresa, we have the tools and knowledge to remain involved in the process from the start to ensure that your facilities progress with the evolution of technology.

n Preliminary needs analysis to align your internal stakeholders and provide a go-forward strategy.

n Customized consulting reports, ranging from site selection strategy to individual site due-diligence profiles.

n Site selection criteria to help filter your choices down to the local level.

n Power cost analysis to track rates for power companies in North America.

n Infrastructure maps to track power lines and substations in live map files.

n Utility provider surveys (power, water, and sewer) during site selection in order to collect updated statistics, sourcing, and customized pricing.

n Construction cost analysis to provide current benchmarks—coupled with third-party updates—to monitor mission critical facility construction costs across North America.

n Customized local market survey templates with risk analysis so that clients can avoid multiple listing service (MLS) printouts of available properties.

n Greenfield (building new)—The acquisition of land sites for building from the ground up or of industrial properties for conversion.

n Fully functional data centers—Whether wholesale colocation, retail colocation, managed service provider(s) or other third-party facility, we can

help you with the acquisition of scalable data center space.

n Modified greenfield sites—Buildings with substantial power capacity, including “powered shell” facilities, older data centers with refurbishment potential, fabrication plants, heavy manufacturing sites, and more.

n Operations

n Maintenance and repair

n Benchmarking

n Risk management

n Audits