Construction Magazine July 2016 | Page 44

CYRUSONE SHATTERS KNOWN DATA CENTER BUILD RECORDS
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commence in the near future .
“ In Northern Virginia , CyrusOne made an educated decision to go with an all-precast structural concrete building , with modular power and cooling units ,” Dorris explains . “ This enabled us to set up advanced supply-chain operations to manufacture or pre-fabricate the components we needed for the data center , which gave us significant savings in time and costs .
CYRUSONE SHATTERS KNOWN DATA CENTER BUILD RECORDS
107
DAYS
BIGGER
180
DAYS
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CHANDLER II DATA CENTER ( Completed October 2014 )
• 107 day completion
• 120,000 square foot building
• 30,000 square feet of data hall
• 6 megawatts of critical power
STERLING II DATA CENTER ( Completed June 2016 )
• 180 day completion
• 220,000 square foot building
• 120,000 square feet of data hall
• 30 megawatts of critical power
“ For example , a normal data center building has tilt-up concrete walls , which are cast on-site at the construction site . But for the Sterling II data center , we set up a separate off-site facility where we could cast pre-fabricated concrete wall panels . We then brought those panels to the construction site on trucks and used them to set up the data center building . It saved time because we didn ’ t have to stop work at the building site while the concrete walls were being cast .
“ Also , we decided to use prefabricated concrete supports in the data center building , which we could also cast off-site . This saved additional time and money because we didn ’ t have to buy a reinforced steel framework for the building or wait for it to be delivered to us . Using pre-cast concrete walls and supports shaved a couple of months off our time to market for Sterling II .”
The Northern Virginia data center campus is also part of CyrusOne ’ s National Internet
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