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It looks like Tutor Perini is making good on his promise to venture out more in the data center space.
The Los Angeles-based heavy civil contractor announced its subsidiary Fisk Electric won a $48 million contract for electrical work in a manufacturing plant that creates data center components.
Located in Houston, the 273,000-square-foot facility produces high-tech electronic products and data center infrastructure that includes hardware related to artificial intelligence, according to a press release Monday. Guardian Perini did not disclose the owner of the facility.
This type of precision manufacturing requires reliable, scalable and resilient electrical systems, according to the release.
Fisk’s scope of work will encompass 115,000 square feet of space within the facility to support advanced production and assembly of AI hardware. The work will emphasize power density, system redundancy and future expansion, Tutor Perini said.
Work is also on a fast track. Because of what Tutor Perini called an “aggressive schedule,” as well as technical complexity, the team is tackling overlapping design, procurement and construction phases to maintain schedule certainty.
The announcement comes just a month after the megaproject’s contractor, who normally builds multimillion dollar tunnels, transport projects i large public buildingssaid it would look for opportunities in the growing data center construction space.
Along with other construction executives who have outstanding opportunities in the sectorTutor Perini CEO Gary Smalley said he wanted to get more exposure to data centers on the company’s first-quarter earnings call.
“We’re actually doing data center work in the specialty area and we’re exploring ways to expand that right now,” Smalley said on May 6.
According to the statement, the value of the contract for the Houston facility will be counted in Tutor Perini’s second quarter backlog. The company said it is targeting completion of the work by the end of 2026
