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Risk Management for Hyperscale & Mission-Critical Data Centers

Protecting Uptime, Budget, and Compliance Across the Data Center Lifecycle

What Sets Us Apart

  • Engineered Resilience by Design – Our lifecycle integrated approach reduces rework, limits schedule impacts, and improves ROI by engineering risk out early.
  • Regulatory Confidence – Reduce permitting uncertainty and insurance liability through early-stage hazard quantitative analysis.
  • Schedule-Driven Risk Strategy – Actionable insights delivered at decision gates—from land acquisition to commissioning.

Risk Mitigation Experts for Mission Critical Data Centers

Risk-Informed Site Selection 

 Avoid costly rework and permitting delays.

  • Facility Siting Studies (FSS) optimize site layout and reduce liability by assessing proximity of chemical hazards
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) to support land acquisition and due diligence
  • Natural hazard modeling (seismic, flood, wildfire, wind) to meet insurance and ESG needs

Blast-Resistant and Resilient Structural Design 

 Don’t compromise safety for speed…build for both.

  • Blast load modeling using Baker-Strehlow-Tang (BST) method and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Progressive collapse prevention designs to blast-resilient precast concrete systems
  • Validated through large-scale blast testing at our proprietary 160-acre facility, our designs ensure real-world performance under high-consequence events

Fire Protection & Hazard Modeling 

 Protect critical assets, meeting code may be just the starting point.

  • Performance-based fire protection for white space and UPS/switchgear rooms
  • Risk-informed fire protection system design
  • Modeling is supported by our proprietary SafeSite® and CFD tools to provide precision scenario planning, code compliance, and mitigation design

Security Risk & Insurance Readiness 

 Stay audit-ready and business-continuity compliant.

  • Security Vulnerability Assessments (SVAs) across physical, operational, and cyber-physical threat vectors
  • ESG, insurance, and underwriter support documentation
  • Code-aligned, layered protection design for greenfield and brownfield sites

Emergency Response & Forensic Support 

 Minimize liability when incidents strike.

  • Emergency Response Program (ERP) development and drills tailored to hyperscale configurations
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA), incident forensics, and litigation support
  • Led by certified fire/explosion investigators and structural engineers with litigation experience, our forensic services provide data-driven insights trusted by courts, carriers, and engineering boards
  • Real-time lab access for attorneys, insurers, and investigators

Who We Support

  • Hyperscalers expanding campuses in high-risk or regulated areas
  • EPCs requiring integrated risk modeling during fast-track schedules
  • Developers/Operators seeking reliability during retrofits or ESG audits
  • Insurance Teams needing blast/fire design validation and ERP readiness

Overview of Data Centers

Today’s data centers face unprecedented risks from emerging fuels and regulatory complexity to fire and explosion risks, and cyber-security concerns. As a global leader in explosion analysis and structural risk mitigation, BakerRisk partners with hyperscalers, EPCs, developers, and operators to integrate resilience from day one by reducing redesigns, avoiding permitting setbacks, and protecting business continuity. Our end-to-end risk mitigation services evolve with your data center from concept through operation.

Our Specialists

Meet our Data Center experts.

Peter Diakow - Headshot

Peter Diakow, CFEI

Charles Oswald

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Thomas Mander, PE

Travis Holland, PE

Jay Idriss, PE, CFEI

Brian Norrie
Roshan Sebastian

Roshan Sebastian, CFPS, EIT

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