BICP Global BIM Study - Lessons for Ireland’s BIM Programme

Data centres form the essential global infrastructure relied upon for multiple industries such as the internet, financial services, and telecommunications. Consequently, data centre construction has developed into a buoyant business sector, leveraging increasing global investment. However, traditional means of data centre procurement do not match stakeholder’s ambitions or current delivery demands. Thus, there is a need for the adoption of new and innovative construction methodologies in the sector to introduce improvements for the delivery of this essential infrastructure. As a step in that direction, this paper presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) that investigates the barriers preventing the implementation of modular construction (MC) techniques on advancing the construction performance for the Hyper-Scale data centre sector. The results of the SLR have identified five main adoption barriers that must be addressed to facilitate the adoption of MC in the sector. Also, despite the many potential benefits of modular construction, the SLR has shown that research into this topic is limited. Thus, we present qualitative findings and recommendations from the study that can act as pointers of future research work.