Design of a Digital Interactive Collaboration Facilitator in a Datacenter Development Context

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

B.J.M. Mol Civil Engineering & Geosciences
D.M.C. Schriever Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Contributors

R. Binnekamp Real Estate Management - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
G.A. van Nederveen Integral Design & Management - CEG (graduation committee member)
Hans Ramler Integral Design & Management - CEG (graduation committee member)
K.G. Heijne Creative Processes - IDE (graduation committee member)
Nienke Ris (mentor)
Nils Schmeling (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Civil Engineering & Geosciences
Copyright: © 2024 Boudewijn Mol, Marieke Schriever
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Published Date

14-03-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Abstract

This thesis aims to design an interactive tool that facilitates collaboration between Microsoft’s teams in the datacenter development design process. Current datacenter development strategies of Microsoft do not sufficiently take into account socio-technical aspects which is causing project delays. Such socio-technical aspects are internally represented by different teams at Microsoft, such as the Community Affairs team and the Environmental team. Incorporating the preferences of all the relevant teams during the design, results in enhanced collaboration through increased mutual insights, which can be used to develop new design solutions. Such new design solutions inherently incorporate more socio-technical aspects...