Data Center World is part of the Informa Connect Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

April 20-23, 2026
Walter E. Washington Convention CenterWashington, D.C.

2026 Event Schedule

From Kits of Parts to Market Ecosystems: A Systems View of Industrialized Construction

Amy Marks  (SVP, Innovation, Compass Datacenters)
Marc Paolicelli  (Chief Customer Officer/SVP, RK Industries, LLC)
Shahab Ahmed  (Senior Technical Manager, Siemens)
Location: 202A
Date: Wednesday, April 22
Time: 10:00 am - 10:45 am
Pass Type: AFCOM Solution Provider, All Access Conference, Industry Conference, Standard Conference - Get your pass now!
Track: Data Center BUILD
Session Type: Conference Session
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All Audiences

For more than a decade, industrialized construction has been framed as a story of prefabricated components and repeatable kits of parts. While that approach has delivered meaningful gains in safety, quality, and speed, it represents only the baseline of what is possible. Join Amy Marks, SVP, Innovation & Sustainability at Compass Datacenters, and their partners in a session that reframes industrialized construction through a systems thinking lens. Drawing on real-world owner experience, it explores how value creation, risk, and predictability change at each layer of integration, why many industrialization efforts stall despite widespread prefabrication, and how people and culture, not components, are the true constraints. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for understanding where their organization is today, where value is being left on the table, and what it takes to move from parts optimization to durable, market-shaping industrialized construction.