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With traditional office tenant improvement workpainfully slow, San Francisco-base d Skyline has been beefing up its critical facilities and infrastructurse group, growing revenue in that area to $22 milliom last year from $8 million in 2007. The San Francisco companh expects revenue in the divisiomn totop $20 million again in 2009. The critical facilities and infrastructure group focuses on building and expanding data both for individual companies andat co-locationj facilities where multiple customers locate their network, server and storagee gear. In the past year, Skyline builtt a new $3.3 million data center for Hosting.com’sa co-location facility at 630 Thirc St.
; a $3 million coolingh tower for 555California St.; and a $3 millio n data center for . The divisiomn is building a $2.1 million data centefr expansion for RHIDeer Park. It has also built data centerssfor , and . Jumping into critical facilities is somewhat unusual fora mid-sized generall contractors like Skyline, which had revenue of $105 millionj in 2008. This is largely because buildinhg critical infrastructure carriesenormous risk, according to Randy senior vice president and head of Skylins Construction’s critical facilities and infrastructurre group.