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48,000 sqm Hyperscale Supercomputing Data Center in Singapore: Heavy-Duty Rigidity, Vibration Control, and Accelerated Delivery
The robust steel skeleton is engineered to bear the extreme loads of massive rooftop cooling towers essential for AI.
Project Overview
Located in the tech hub of Singapore, this 48,000 sqm hyperscale supercomputing data center is the backbone of the region's AI infrastructure. Speed to market is paramount; any delay costs millions in lost cloud revenue. Developers harbor intense anxieties regarding structural integrity under the colossal weight of rooftop cooling systems, vibration transmission to sensitive servers, and concrete dust. Shijie Heavy Industry eradicated these operational fears by delivering a high-precision structural steel framework. Utilizing advanced 3D BIM clash detection and off-site prefabrication, we eliminated hazardous welding and wet concrete. Our engineered steel frame safely supports extreme floor loads and massive chiller arrays, employing integrated dampeners to neutralize vibrations. Coated to resist relentless tropical humidity, the framework was erected entirely through high-strength bolted connections. This ultra-fast assembly allowed structural handover 30 days ahead of schedule.
| Location | Singapore |
| Application | Hyperscale Data Center |
| Scale | 48,000 sqm Floor Area |
| Structure | Heavy Steel Frame |
| Load | High Capacity (>= 15 kN/sqm) |
| Vibration | Engineered Dampers |
| Corrosion | ISO C4 Epoxy |
| Assembly | 100% Bolted Dry Erection |
| Compliance | BCA Green Mark |
| Delivery | Completed 30 Days Early |
Heavy Mechanical Support
The robust steel skeleton is engineered to bear the extreme loads of massive rooftop cooling towers essential for AI.
Vibration Isolation
Strategic dampening systems prevent intense mechanical vibrations from transferring into sensitive server rack environments.
Ultra-Clean Erection
Fully prefabricated bolted connections eliminated hazardous welding sparks and concrete dust, ensuring a pristine site for parallel server deployment.
Tropical Durability
Advanced multi-layer industrial epoxy coatings relentlessly resist Singapore's year-round equatorial humidity, guaranteeing structural lifespan.
Turning Site Challenges into Engineered Certainty
Proven technical interventions to keep your project on spec, on budget, and on schedule
AI computers require colossal rooftop cooling, creating severe vibrations and massive point loads.
Implemented heavy wide-flange beams with tuned elastomeric dampening nodes to safely absorb stress.
Singapore's exorbitant manual labor costs and strict regulations regarding construction dust.
Deployed an off-site fabricated system, enabling rapid, dust-free bolting to drastically reduce labor.
Deploying an AI-ready hyperscale data center in Singapore requires absolute precision and speed. Concrete construction generates too much dust and takes too long to cure. Shijie Heavy Industry transformed our strategy. Their steel framework arrived engineered to perfection, slotting together without field modifications. The rigidity is phenomenal; we have massive chiller arrays running at maximum capacity on the roof, yet zero vibration transfers to the servers. Their clean assembly method allowed our teams to begin fit-outs weeks earlier. By topping out 30 days early, Shijie saved us a fortune in labor and let us bring cloud services online a month early. A truly world-class structural engineering partner.
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Pre-assembled in our factory and 3D-nested for containers to cut ocean freight and site delays
Fabricated strictly to CE EN 1090-1, AISC, and ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001 with full NDT traceability
Work directly with senior structural engineers from Tekla 3D modeling to on-site erection
Frequently Asked Questions
What was built for this Singapore data center?
A 48,000 sqm hyperscale AI computing facility on a high-precision structural steel frame, designed to carry the concentrated floor and rooftop plant loads that dense GPU halls impose rather than the loads of a conventional warehouse.
AI halls concentrate enormous weight on a small footprint. What capacity is provided?
The structural frame carries floor loading of 15 kN/sqm and above, with the roof structure sized separately for the cooling plant. Point loads from racks and from rooftop units are the governing case, not average distributed load.
Rotating plant transmits vibration into server racks. How is that isolated?
Tuned elastomeric dampening nodes are built into the heavy wide-flange framing, so mechanical vibration from chillers and air handling is absorbed at the structure instead of propagating into the hall. Servers and their cabling dislike continuous micro-movement more than they dislike load.
Why build this in steel rather than concrete?
Concrete brings curing time, formwork cycles and dust – none of which suit a project chasing cloud revenue. Off-site fabricated steel with 100% bolted dry erection keeps the site clean enough for parallel server deployment and removes the waiting.
Singapore's humidity attacks steel. What coating is used?
A multi-layer industrial epoxy system to ISO C4, appropriate for a tropical indoor environment with year-round condensation risk. Coating maintenance access in a live data center is difficult, so the barrier has to be right at installation.
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