El Segundo · Long Beach · San Diego · Palmdale
33.9192° N · 118.4165° W · Southern California advanced-manufacturing corridor
Decision Construction is the owner-side utility strategist for defense, aerospace, robotics, and data center campuses — integrating electric gas water sewer telecom into one phased plan so multi-megawatt facilities get energized on the production schedule.
Figures reflect Decision Construction's service scope and typical program range.
01 — The Problem
Standing up an advanced-manufacturing facility is not just a construction problem. It is a coordination problem. An owner can hold a signed lease, a design team, committed capital, and a full plan set — and still be unable to energize.
Most stakeholders focus on the building and the equipment. We focus on the invisible critical path beneath it — the utility service that decides whether the campus can actually run.
Ready to install lines — stalled on transformer capacity, service voltage, meter location, and long-lead switchgear that was never ordered in time.
Crews ready to mobilize — but LADWP, SCE, SDG&E, SoCalGas, water, sewer, and telecom scopes and schedules are not aligned.
Wants to fund the project — but lacks confidence in the true energization timeline and whether the site can carry the load on schedule.
Sees a strong industrial thesis — but cannot underwrite the hidden infrastructure cost and utility risk that decide site viability.
Owns the production ramp — but can't hold utilities, agencies, equipment vendors, and contractors together across a multi-year buildout.
This is where the campus stalls — and where we begin.
02 — Core Services
Owner-side utility strategy and program management for defense, aerospace, robotics, and data center campuses — run as a live service catalog. Explore the full scope the way we manage it — an interactive board with Kanban, lifecycle Gantt, and grouped table views.
03 — Who We Serve
You are ramping to rate. Your utilities have to ramp with you.
Rate-production load models, phased energization, hangar and clean-assembly utilities, and coordination with LADWP, SCE, and SDG&E — so infrastructure tracks the production ramp.
Model your ramp →Mission-critical production cannot wait on the grid.
Secure-facility utility coordination, standby generation, dual-feed feasibility, and continuity planning — managed so infrastructure work never threatens contract performance.
Protect continuity →A construction loan is only as strong as its path to energization.
Independent utility diligence, capacity evidence, cost and schedule risk, and readiness scoring — for sharper underwriting, structuring, and early warning on troubled projects.
See the intelligence layer →Automation multiplies load faster than the service can grow.
Robotic-cell and factory-replication utility standards, demand modeling, and repeatable site-adaptation playbooks — so every new site comes online the same way.
Standardize your sites →Compute is contracted in months. Power is delivered in years.
See data center services →Three scopes on one accountable schedule: full facility design, utility power delivery from capacity screen to energized bus, and the OT security architecture tenants and insurers now require before turnover.
04 — Coverage
Southern California · excludes San Diego (SDG&E)
05 — The Intelligence Layer
Every engagement produces structured knowledge: agency timelines, utility requirements, load and routing constraints, equipment lead times, delivery friction. Over time, that work becomes proprietary infrastructure intelligence.
Site-level readiness scoring, utility delay risk, CapEx forecasting, and program dashboards — for owners, EPCs, construction lenders, investors, and insurers.
Request an intelligence briefing06 — Field Work
A manufacturer scaling to rate faced open questions on service voltage, transformer strategy, and long-lead switchgear. We built the load package, led the SCE application, and sequenced procurement against the energization date.
→ A known path to power, and a schedule the team could commit to.
A developer with several concurrent buildings faced different service conditions and critical-path risk on each. We centralized the utility workflow, tracked every site, coordinated meter and service, and surfaced stalled agency actions early.
→ PMs stopped chasing utilities; buildings stopped sitting finished but dark.
A robotics operation adding production cells discovered its service could not carry the new load. We modeled the demand, coordinated the SDG&E upgrade, and staged energization so production kept moving throughout.
→ Expansion without a shutdown, and a repeatable standard for the next site.
A lender needed to see utility-related risk across a portfolio of industrial collateral. We provided site-level readiness, capacity evidence, bottleneck analysis, and delivery risk beyond what any appraisal shows.
→ Sharper underwriting, and earlier identification of at-risk projects.
A compute operator held a signed offtake against a service that could carry a third of it. We phased the load into three interconnection stages, released the transformer and switchgear orders against the real critical path, permitted bridge generation with storage to turn the first hall on early, and designed the OT zones while the electrical package was still at 60%.
→ First hall revenue nine months ahead of permanent service, and a security package the tenant accepted at turnover.
07 — The Ask
We are seeking strategic conversations with partners who can help scale this field position into an industrial infrastructure-intelligence platform — while continuing to solve urgent utility problems for manufacturers, developers, and program teams.
08 — Contact
We respond with a grounded read: what your utility path looks like, where the risk is, and what has to happen next.
Walk through our short project review — who you are, where the site is, and what's blocking you. We come back with what your utility path actually looks like, where the risk sits, and what has to happen next.
No commitment · reviewed by a consultant, not a botCore Services
The complete owner-side utility scope for defense, aerospace, robotics, and data center campuses — strategy, service, permitting, construction, commissioning, and turnover. Browse the catalog as a Kanban board, a lifecycle Gantt, or a grouped table.
How we run it
Built for
Secure-facility coordination, standby generation, and mission-critical continuity.
Rate-production ramps, hangar and integration-facility utilities, phased energization.
Clean-assembly power, environmental control, gases, vacuum, and resilient backup.
Robotic-cell standards, factory replication, and demand that scales with automation.
Interconnection, substation delivery, full facility design, and OT security.
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The Data Center Challenge
The design team optimizes the hall. The utility runs a study. Procurement fights a 92-week transformer. The security team arrives after the controls are already installed. Each group is competent and each is working from a different schedule — and the ready-for-service date is the one thing none of them owns.
The Data Center Intelligence Hub
Contracted load against energized load, interconnection stage, design completion, long-lead equipment, cyber authorization, and the ready-for-service date — one row per campus, rolled up for the board.
What We Deliver
Civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, fire, security, and controls — managed as one coordinated package from siting through as-builts, with density and redundancy decided before they become change orders.
Owner-side interconnection from the first capacity screen to the energized bus — applications, studies, LOAs, substation and duct bank scope, long-lead equipment, and the phased energization that protects the RFS date.
The building systems are the attack surface. We architect segmented zones for BMS, EPMS, and SCADA, control vendor access, and carry the evidence through commissioning to an authorization tenants and insurers accept.
Rack density, cooling method, and redundancy tier set the electrical service, the generator yard, the water demand, and the permits. We hold all seven disciplines against one model so a density change shows up as a schedule and capacity consequence the same week it is proposed — not at 90% CD.
Screening, application, system study, letter of authorization, substation, switchgear, energization — each with an owner, a date, and the equipment order that has to release to protect it. We also model the bridge: temporary generation and storage that turn the first hall on while the permanent service is still being built.
Chillers, switchgear controls, EPMS, BMS, access control, and every vendor laptop that touches them. Security designed at 60% CD costs a fraction of security retrofitted after turnover — and it is now the item that holds up tenant sign-off. We architect the zones, control the access, and carry the evidence into commissioning.
Platform Capabilities
Consulting Behind the Software
Utility planning meetings, AHJ reviews, factory witness tests, commissioning scripts, and security audits — we sit on your side of the table and bring the record back into the platform.
Value by Stakeholder
Which campuses hold their RFS date, and which need a bridge-power decision now.
Sellable capacity by hall, with the utility path behind every commitment.
Density changes priced in megawatts and weeks before they are committed.
Complete, consistent submittals and a single counterpart across the campus.
Draws tied to energization and commissioning evidence, not percent complete.
Documented resiliency and OT security posture ahead of binding.
One coordinated design intent and a clear long-lead release calendar.
A defendable delivery date and a security package they can actually accept.
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LADWP, SCE, SDG&E, municipal utilities, and SoCalGas — compared side by side on service area, capacity outlook, customer obligations, time-to-power, and delivery pathway.
Electric, gas, water, sewer, telecom, and fiber corridors mapped across every candidate parcel — with a readiness verdict for each site at a glance.
Every candidate scored and weighted across seven utility categories — paired with an executive recommendation, a red-flag memorandum, and a full risk heatmap.
Capacity, readiness indicators, network routing, and an overall score for each site — in one dashboard your team and capital partners can act on together.
Who we bring to the table
What we do for your review
Loads, plans, and data packaged the way your team needs them — fewer rounds of corrections.
A single accountable coordinator across the owner, builder, and every other agency.
Every condition logged, answered, and closed — nothing lost between departments.
Work is ready before the inspector arrives, so trips aren't wasted and dates hold.
The path we manage
Three things in one deal
Every hard-tech deal is a real-estate asset, a utility platform, and an operating company stacked together. Each layer needs its own evidence — conflating them is where capital gets surprised.
How sure are we the power is real?
What we weigh most
+ lease clarity 5% · entitlement risk 5% · operating utility cost 4% · each factor scaled by evidence confidence
What usually goes wrong
The listing says “powered site,” but no capacity was ever reserved for this project.
The utility line and construction can run 18–36 months — long after the building is finished.
Transformers, on-site wiring, off-site work, and deposits that aren't in the building budget.
The building is done, but the meter, fire water, or final inspection isn't — so nothing runs.
The operating company's plan leaves out the utility money it actually needs to open.
Custom, tenant-specific systems the next buyer can't use — so the value walks out the door.
What we check
How a deal moves
The questions we answer
Is the power actually there — and reserved for this deal?
How long until the site can really turn on?
What's the true, all-in utility bill to get it running?
Who pays for what — landlord, tenant, or you?
Can the tenant afford the utility work their plan needs?
If the deal goes sideways, can someone else use the site?
Is there room to grow later?
When it's time to sell, is everything documented and transferable?
Right-sized capacity, phasing, redundancy, and corridor strategy across the whole campus — a phased utility roadmap from master plan through predevelopment, with dry and wet utility matrices.
Electric, gas, telecom, fiber, and spare pathways coordinated into one composite corridor and joint trench — conflicts resolved in 3D before backfill, with an inspection-ready handover.
Substation capacity, feeder plan, and phased energization from initial service to full buildout — tracked on a live readiness dashboard so power arrives when the schedule needs it.
Critical utility path, responsibility matrix, permitting path, long-lead tracker, and construction sequencing — utilities aligned to the build so nothing waits on an unowned scope.
The gap we close
Your building date is one path. The operational date depends on utilities, agencies, long-lead equipment, easements, and inspections outside your direct control. We manage that whole chain as one critical path — so the facility can actually run on the day you hand it over.
Who we work with
Scope clarity, a real energization schedule, and fewer utility change orders.
Utility criteria built into design; load forecasts aligned to applications.
Utility governance, a unified dashboard, and executive readiness reporting.
Site screening, utility-ready product, and tenant-attracting infrastructure.
Production plans translated into phased, financeable capacity delivery.
MV, substation, generation, storage, and microgrid integration.
Approved standards, inspection sequencing, and clean cutover coordination.
Base-building capacity, shared infrastructure, and utility-ready suites.
Delivered gate by gate
Engagement packages
RFP pursuits, design-build competitions, GMP prep.
Early design, build-to-suit, existing-facility expansion.
Complex campuses, new sites, major service upgrades.
Greenfield, campus infrastructure, joint trench, relocations.
Delayed projects, missed milestones, failed inspections.
Active defense, aerospace, and robotics facilities.
National builders, repeat clients, portfolio developers.
Tell us where the project stands — we'll scope the right package.
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The Institutional Challenge
A fund backs a company whose factory is years from powered. A lender advances a draw before the fab is truly buildable. A developer commits to a delivery date the utility cannot support. Buildout information lives scattered across agencies, builders, permit portals, utilities, spreadsheets, and field notes — and that creates blind spots exactly where hundreds of millions are committed.
The Hard Tech Intelligence Hub
A secure, map-based command center that brings site data, power and utility readiness, agency milestones, builder activity, documents, field updates, and risk indicators into one shared environment — a single source of truth from site selection to operational.
Platform Capabilities
Portfolio sites, financed and insured facilities, power and utility constraints, interconnection corridors, and completed builds — layered over the parcel fabric. Institutions see not just their own sites, but the whole hard-tech corridor around them.
Power, permit, infrastructure, schedule, environmental, funding, builder capacity, entitlement, commissioning, and documentation risk — scored per site and rolled up per portfolio, so risk teams see which facilities need attention and which are moving normally.
Loan draws, equity tranches, and grant releases tracked against verified milestones — site verification, power readiness, construction, commissioning, operational. Funds move when the facility is actually ready, and holds surface before they become losses.
Consulting Behind the Software
Data is only useful when someone knows what it means on the ground. Our consultants verify conditions in the field, coordinate utilities and agencies, and turn platform signals into recommended actions.
Value by Institution
Buildout readiness, draw risk, collateral value, and time-to-revenue.
Build progress, field conditions, documentation, and completion timelines.
Spinout and lab facility readiness, power, and buildout risk.
Whether a portfolio company's facility will actually be ready on plan.
Develop-to-suit readiness, tenant timelines, and power delivery risk.
Readiness, power risk, and contractor performance across a portfolio.
Which committed investments are landing — and which need help to close.
Investment coordination, infrastructure sequencing, and program reporting.
The CRE Challenge
A broker knows demand, but not service capacity. A lender knows exposure, but not the interconnection queue. An investor sees the basis, but not the transformer upgrade beneath it. And a defense or robotics tenant may be ready to sign while occupancy still depends on power, process water, hazmat clearance, fiber, and commissioning.
The CRE Hard Tech Intelligence Hub
Building data, service capacity, agency milestones, documents, field observations, and schedule blockers — consolidated per asset and rolled up per portfolio, so leadership sees power readiness the way they see rent rolls.
Platform Capabilities
Service capacity, life-safety, fire access, fiber entrance, ductbank restoration, final utility release, commissioning, certificate of occupancy — tracked as one power-readiness path, with the date risk quantified for owners, tenants, and brokers.
Service capacity, required upgrades, entitlement barriers, hazmat and access issues, corridor buildout trends, and coordination complexity — quantified before acquisition, refinancing, or repositioning decisions are made. The price is only a deal if the utility path is in the basis.
Consulting Behind the Software
Our consultants walk the sites, coordinate the utilities and agencies, verify conditions, and turn platform signals into decisions your asset team can execute.
Value by Stakeholder
What’s blocking each asset — and the steps to construction, power, or occupancy.
Portfolio-wide capacity exposure, readiness, and buildout sequencing.
Better diligence before buying, refinancing, or repositioning in hard-tech markets.
Grounded intelligence for listings, tenant conversations, and corridor capacity analysis.
Collateral value, construction readiness, draw risk, and occupancy timing.
Documentation and field visibility into buildout progress and infrastructure barriers.
Access, utility service, tenant communication, and site readiness in one view.
Reliable power dates, utility capacity, and occupancy readiness.
