Kodiak Fabrication
our shop
Fabricated to print in-house from a full cost-up bill.
28–42 day lead
Screen the site first
Price the data hall before you pour the slab.
Rackflow screens a parcel for power, water, and permitting risk before you commit to a formal study. Score the site, design the hall, and price it against three OEM paths, then hand the utility the packet it asks for. One model, from the parcel to the drawing.
Floor area608
IT load202 kW
Budgetary$248.6K
Power by county
Find the power before you buy the land.
We mapped the public grid record for every United States county: transmission voltage, substations, interconnection queues, carbon, water, and the industrial rate. It is free, needs no account, and reads the same whether you screen one county or fifty.
3,091Counties profiled
77,945Substations mapped
2,931Utility service territories
51States and jurisdictions
6 to 10 weeks
for a budgetary number from a manufacturer rep.
One vendor
per quote, so nothing is comparable without starting over.
Zero visibility
into what any of it actually costs to make.
Every line, down to the steel.
The price is not a list number marked down until it wins. It is built up from what the thing is made of: pounds of steel at the day's rate, hours on the shop floor, square feet of powder coat, the bought-out casters and locks and rails, then crating, freight, and the burden that keeps the lights on.
Because it is assembled rather than discounted, every figure is traceable to a physical quantity times a rate. Nothing hides in a round number. This is what an open-book estimate looks like when you can see all the way down.
42U Server Cabinet (24" x 42")CAB-42U-24X42
MaterialSteel 265 lb @ $0.62/lb$194
Shop labor4.5 hr @ $78/hr$351
Powder coat96 ft² @ $1.85/ft²$178
Bought-out hardware$139
Crating$45
Freight$93
Direct cost$999
Shop burden (14%)$140
G&A (9%)$90
Cost$1,229
Margin (22%)$270
Sell price$1,499
One design. Four ways to build it.
Value OEM
Tripp Lite class
Catalog-grade OEM equivalent, modeled as a market factor.
42–56 day lead
Premium OEM
CPI, Vertiv class
Premium branded OEM equivalent, modeled as a market factor.
56–98 day lead
Import White Label
offshore direct
Offshore white-label equivalent, modeled as a market factor.
84–140 day lead
Non-fabricated classes are modeled as market factors against in-house cost. They are budgetary indications, not manufacturer quotations.
It ends as a drawing and a document.
| Item | Qty | Unit | Extended |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42U cabinet (24x42) | 12 | $1,499 | $17,991 |
| Vertical cable manager | 14 | $342 | $4,795 |
| Patch panel (48-port) | 12 | $145 | $1,740 |
| Horizontal cable manager | 12 | $110 | $1,319 |
| Cat6A copper (pulled, in-zone) | 11355 | $0 | $4,769 |
| OM4 fiber backbone trunk (HDA-MDA) | 648 | $4 | $2,495 |
| Overhead ladder rack | 32 | $315 | $10,066 |
| Blanking panel (1U) | 72 | $32 | $2,280 |
| Fabricated materials subtotal | $45,455 | ||
Under the hood
Six engines, one source of truth
The landing page you are reading, the configurator, and the estimate all call the same pure functions. Change an assumption and every number downstream moves with it.
Floor geometry
Hot and cold aisles, service clearances, and containment placed to real dimensions, then summed into a room that rounds up to the next foot.
Per-rack thermal
Every cabinet gets a heat load and a cooling ratio. The model distributes cold air bottom-up and flags the exact node where it runs out.
Power & PUE
IT load, cooling overhead, and redundancy roll into a facility draw and a PUE that moves the moment you change a cooling method.
Cable runs
Average run length is measured, not guessed, Manhattan paths from every cabinet to the MDA, plus drops and slack.
Parametric cost
Fabricated steel is costed up from material, labor, and burden. Bought-out parts pass through. Nothing is a magic number.
Lead time & labor
Install hours come from first-pass labor standards; the longest-lead line item sets the schedule the whole project waits on.
Start a project
Bring us your load and your lot.
Send the shape of what you are building, rack count, power target, cooling preference, and we will come back with a dimensioned plan and an open-book estimate, not a mystery quote.
- A floor plan drawn to real clearances
- A line-item cost-up you can audit
- Four sourcing paths, priced side by side