Friday5 – October 16, 2026

QTS’s Suwanee, GA, data center campus is home to some of their largest customers with 100+ MW current planned critical campus capacity. The 52-acre campus offers ample customer amenities such as secure parking, a break room with fresh market café, conference rooms and a Wellness Room. MillerClapperton fabricated and installed 4,300 square feet of Metal Composite Material (MCM) panels.

On October 15, 1979, my dad and Dave Clapperton started this company at the kitchen table in our home. Forty-seven years later, we have a lot to celebrate and even more to be thankful for.

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The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International recently released its “2026 Market Study: The Economic Impact of U.S. Commercial Real Estate,” which highlights significant changes that are reshaping commercial real estate in the U.S.​In 2025, data centers accounted for nearly 46% of U.S. office construction spending, up from less than 5% a decade ago. Traditional office construction, not including data centers, totaled approximately $48.4 billion last year.

By: Robert Ivy, Cathleen McGuigan, and Peter MacKeith

“Out There” reproduces projects by 50 U.S. architecture firms who work spans America’s regional cities and small towns. Looked at together, it provides a portrait of the current state of architecture practice that emerges away from traditional cultural and economic centers like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.