The fabricated metal on the cooling and mechanical side of a campus — pipe spools, manifolds and headers, pre-piped skids, pipe racks and supports, ductwork, equipment dunnage and fuel-system steel — shop-built, pressure-tested and shipped to the sequence the halls come online.
The electrical chain gets the attention, but the cooling plant, the technology-cooling loop and the generator yard carry just as much fabricated steel: thousands of feet of chilled-water pipe cut and welded into spools, the manifolds that split flow to each hall, the skids that CDUs and pumps sit on, the racks and trapezes that carry it all overhead, the ductwork and plenums in the air-handling galleries, and the dunnage under chillers, dry coolers and cooling towers. Liquid cooling for high-density racks has multiplied that scope, and most of it is still welded in the field by the mechanical contractor.
FabTek moves that work into the shop. At four production sites in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, we cut, fit and weld carbon and stainless piping to ASME B31.1 and B31.3 with Section IX qualified welders, hydrotest it before it ships, mount it on skids with the structural and sheet-metal work done in the same building, and powder-coat or galvanize the supports that carry it. The electrical-room steel and enclosures on Data Center Steel come from the same plants, so a developer, GC or mechanical contractor can buy the mechanical metal and the electrical metal on one schedule from one domestic source.
Chilled-water, condenser-water and TCS spools, hydrotested and tagged.
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Distribution manifolds, plant headers and CDU connection assemblies.
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Pre-piped skid packages, tested as a unit before they ship.
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Pipe racks, trapezes, stanchions, anchors and guides.
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Heavy-gauge duct, plenums, transitions and damper frames.
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Dunnage, platforms and frames for chillers, towers and dry coolers.
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Day-tank skids, saddles, fill stations and fuel spools.
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Multi-trade racks and utility corridor modules.
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Hyperscale and colocation campuses, enterprise and edge sites, and the central utility plants that serve them. Mechanical contractors buy spools, manifolds and supports to pull welding off the site; developers and GCs buy skids and prefab assemblies to compress schedule; equipment integrators buy skid bases and piping to complete their packages. Our data center guides cover the power and cooling chain end to end.
| Piping materials | Carbon steel (A53, A106), stainless (304/304L, 316/316L); copper and alloy on request |
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| Piping codes | ASME B31.1 and B31.3; welders qualified to ASME Section IX |
| Testing | Hydrostatic and pneumatic testing per code and specification; visual and NDE as specified |
| Structural materials | ASTM A36 / A572 Gr. 50 shapes and plate; A500 HSS; galvanized strut |
| Structural welding | AWS D1.1 (steel) and D1.3 (sheet) by certified welders |
| Finishes | Powder coat in-house; hot-dip galvanizing (ASTM A123) through finishing partners; primer-only for field paint |
| Documentation | Material certs, weld maps, hydrotest records, dimensional inspection; ISO 9001:2015 |
Representative capabilities — exact ranges, ratings, and finishes are confirmed per project. Send drawings and a spec for a firm quote.
A campus does not need every spool on day one; it needs the spools for Hall 1 before Hall 1's chillers set, and nothing for Hall 4 taking up laydown. FabTek releases mechanical scope by area and by hall, tags every spool and support to the isometric and the room, and stages shipments against the construction schedule. Our guide to sourcing pipe spools for a data center covers how that sequencing works.
Built at four production sites in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
ISO 9001:2015 quality management, AWS-certified welding, OSHA-compliant facilities.
In-house powder coat backed by an IEEE 2000-hour salt-spray certification.
Reserved-line capacity and the automation to grow with your volume.
Yes. We cut, fit and weld carbon and stainless pipe spools, manifolds and headers to ASME B31.1 and B31.3 at our Mississippi plants, hydrotest them and ship them tagged to the drawings.
FabTek Industries fabricates pipe spools, skids and manifolds alongside pipe racks, platforms, electrical-room steel and enclosures at the same plants, so one supplier can carry the mechanical and electrical metal scope.
Yes. CDU, pump and chiller skids ship with piping, valves and instrument taps installed and tested, ready to set and connect.
By area and hall against the construction schedule. Each spool and support is tagged to its isometric and room, and shipments are staged to the energization sequence.
Explore related lines: Data center steel · Equipment skids & platforms · Cable tray supports · Bus ducts & busways · E-Rooms & electrical houses
Further reading: Data Center Sourcing Guide (17 buyer's posts) · Sourcing pipe spools for a data center · What a hyperscaler GC buys from a metal fabricator · Inside the data center electrical room
Have a mechanical package to quote? Send the isometrics, the skid drawings and the support schedule — we'll come back with a fabrication plan and a firm price, typically within one business day.