AHA is a recognized expert in delivering innovative, reliable, and scalable solutions for enterprise and co-location clients.
The demand for resilient, high-performance mission critical facilities continues to accelerate due to proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and industries increasing reliance on uninterrupted access to digital infrastructure. Reliable mission critical infrastructure requires data center engineering systems design that provides the highest standards of reliability, redundancy, efficiency and flexibility to ensure seamless 24/7 operation.
With decades of experience, AHA has become a recognized expert in the data center engineering services market for enterprise to co-location clients nation-wide. AHA collaborates with Owners, Developers, Contractors and Architects to deliver data centers with scalable air-cooled and AI supported liquid cooling systems as a part of new construction to renovation/expansion projects. As a building performance consulting firm, AHA offers comprehensive data center engineering services including data center MEP engineering services, fire protection engineering services, technology systems consulting, CFD modeling services, energy modeling for buildings, energy and sustainability consulting, as well as arc flash and short-circuit coordination studies services. AHA’s Team of data center engineering services professionals continue to deliver proven expertise in scalable systems integration, redundancy planning and innovation to support the ever-evolving needs of the mission critical market.
Market Leaders
Jesse Foley, PE, LEED AP
Managing Partner
Location: Atlanta, GA
Experience: 20 Years
Joined AHA: 2010
Fun Facts:
- My favorite quality in a person... Reliability
- I am motivated by... Winning and Growing
- My top bucket list item... Ski the alps
Jennifer Mitarotonda, PE, LEED AP
Associate Partner | Project Executive
Location: Ashburn, VA
Experience: 30 Years
Joined AHA: 2024
Fun Facts:
- I can’t live without... Penn State football!
- Most proud accomplishment outside work... Finishing the Baltimore Marathon
- My personal mission statement is... Don't stop learning
Jonathan Cristino, PE
Partner | Mechanical
Location: Burlington, MA
Experience: 12 Years
Joined AHA: 2013
Fun Facts:
- I can’t live without… Family
- I am motivated by... Challenging and complex projects that require strategic thinking and collaboration
- My personal mission statement is... Do the best you can and be yourself
Steven Roberts, PE
Partner | Project Executive
Location: Atlanta, GA
Experience: 45 Years
Joined AHA: 2011
Fun Facts:
- My professional goal/dream is... Passing along my experience through mentoring younger engineers
- My bravest act outside work... Backpacking in New Mexico for 2 weeks
- My personal mission statement is... Leave everything better than I found it
Related Projects
Arizona
Confidential Client
Arizona
This new 36cMW co-location data center is 2-stories with central air-cooled chiller plant with redundant distribution. The project includes HMA analysis for ESS battery permit approval and flexible tenant fit-out design.
AHA is providing BREEAM Energy Modeling; Internal and External Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling; Telecom, and MEP/FP Design services.
Certifications
- BREEAM Interim Design Certificate
Arizona
Confidential Client
Arizona
This new 36cMW co-colocation data center is 2-stories with central air-cooled chiller plant with redundant distribution to the high density Liquid Cooled (LC) tenant fit out. The project includes high density LC rack deployment and secondary fluid network design as well as design considerations for extreme ambient conditions
AHA provided LEED MEP Documentation, LEED Energy Modeling, Internal Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling, Telecom, Security, and MEP/FP Design services.
Certifications
- LEED Certified CS (target)
Hammond, IN
Digital Crossroads Lake Michigan
Hammond, IN
This new mission critical complex coverts a former, the world’s largest, coal-fired power plant into a new 1+ million SF, 100 MW data center campus. The first building is approximately 100,000 SF, scalable to 20 MW, takes advantage of the climate of the southern coast of Lake Michigan.
AHA provided Consulting, Master Planning, MP/FP Design, 3D Visualizations, and Renewable Energy services. Featuring cooling systems that utilizes Lake Michigan as a water cooling source and as cool ambient air, an ultra-low PUE that minimizes the environmental impact. The primary cooling system uses both air and water to manage the temperature inside the data hall, utilizing free cooling from both the lake water as well as indirect airside economizers to deliver and maintain server inlet air temperature requirements. The design is robust and flexible to allow varying configurations and rack densities within the data hall without the use of a raised access floor. Engaged by Digital Crossroads during the project’s early planning phase, AHA’s Advisory services included site master planning services.
Phoenix, AZ
eBay Mercury
Phoenix, AZ
This new, free-cooled, 12 MW modular data enter utilizes 8,000 SF of raised floor space for high density racks, and accommodates multiple high density server filled containers on the roof.
AHA provided MEP/FP Design services. The design concept included “hot water cooling” to support the requirement for year-round use of free cooling, despite the temperatures in Phoenix.
South Jordan, UT
eBay Quicksilver
South Jordan, UT
This new 16MW, 2 story data center included Day 1 loads of 4 MW expandable to 30 MW of concurrent maintainable high density racks up to and above 30 KW per rack.
AHA provided MEP/FP Design services. The design utilized 8 MW of fuel cells as the primary power source, and met eBay’s flexibility and reliability requirements with low PUE and free cooling, reliability, using both air cooling and liquid cooling in different parts of the facility.
New York, NY
DataGryd
New York, NY
The 240,000 SF, 24 story building with a basement and subbasement was built in the 1930s. This project for the property was multi-phased and accommodated for high density power and cooling and structural needs of generations, cogeneration plants and UPS systems. As a historic building, careful consideration and coordination with the Landmarks Preservation Commission was needed to ensure the exterior work conformed to the required standards.
AHA provided MEP/FP Design services. Our BIM model was crucial in explaining our design solutions to the Commission.
Phoenix, AZ
CyrusOne
Phoenix, AZ
The new 182,000 SF complex combines a 10 MW, 100,000 SF data center with an 82,000 SF three-story office building.
AHA provided MEP/FP Design, and Energy & Sustainability services. The building’s infrastructure includes a below-grade duct bank from on-site substation to 15 kV switchgear. There are also multiple levels of redundancy available within the same footprint (e.g. N, N+1, 2N), 110 MW onsite substation, 300 kVA dual input PDUs with automatic transfer switches, scalable 2.25 MW Detroit Diesel dedicated generators pre-wired for additional capacity, and a 3,300 gallon belly tank each plus an added 6,000 gallon external tank for every two generators.
Mission Critical Markets
- Enterprise Data Centers
- Co-location Data Centers
- Hybrid Data Center Design Services
- Build-to-Suit Data Center Design Services
- Data Center Tenant Fit-Out Design Services
- Data Center Retro-Fit Design Services
- Data Center Engineering Services
- Data Center MEP Engineering Services
Representative Clients
- ACS Infrastructure
- Apple
- Corescale
- CyrusOne
- DataGryd
- Digital Crossroads
- Digital Realty
- eBay
- Fidelity Investments
- Georgia Institute for Technology
- H5 Data Centers
- Iron Mountain
- Menlo Digital
- Microsoft
- NNT
- Paypal
- QTS
- Stack Infrastructure
- TA Realty
- Worldwide Mission Critical
















