Liquid Cooling Retrofit Schedule Risk Analysis
Two live data halls converting to liquid cooling, with a tenant asking for a date the owner could commit to.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Mid-Atlantic
- Market
- Data Centers
- Our role
- Schedule risk analysis
- Size
- 2 halls · 40 MW
- Delivery
- Design-Build
- Duration
- 18 months
- Status
- In progress · 2026
What is at stake.
Coolant distribution units, piping and rack changes have to happen around equipment that stays in service. Vendor lead times are uncertain and outage windows are short. The owner needed a date with a stated confidence level before signing the tenant.
What we are doing.
Beck Franklin's role: schedule risk analysis. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Risk workshop
We ran a risk workshop with the design-builder and operations to set ranges on key durations and lead times.
Monte Carlo model
The schedule was run through a Monte Carlo model to produce P50 and P80 dates.
Top drivers
The analysis ranked the risks that moved the P80 date most, so mitigation went where it mattered.
Update each quarter
The risk model is rerun each quarter as procurement firms up.
Where it stands.
A single date hides the risk. A P80 date tells the owner how confident they can be before they sign.
Risk analyst, Beck Franklin
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