The majority of the focus within the telecommunications sector is on building data centers, the power-hungry, industrial-strength warehouse buildings with sophisticated MEP systems that house racks of servers and network switching gear. While the sector was impacted by the economic meltdown last year, with its share of project cancellations and lingering funding problems, it is poised to recover quickly and continue strong for the foreseeable future, say contractors and industry analysts, who paint a picture of a dynamic, rapidly evolving construction market with high growth potential.
Think of it as the equivalent of building out the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s, except there is no end point. The demand for “bigger pipes” to handle everything from millions of Youtube videos to millions of cell phone calls to moving terabytes of business data across the globe is still in its infancy.