Northlake Data Center
Northlake, Illinois
Hill Mechanical Corp. is installing the mechanical (piping, ventilation, and plumbing) for this new 665,000 square foot data center. The data center portion of the facility is a two-story structure with Collocation, Power Distribution Unit rooms, Main Distribution Frame rooms (MDF), and mechanical room spaces. The Chiller Utility Building is a three-level facility with a basement that consists of the lower level central plant while the first and second floors are Unit Sub Station (USS) rooms, Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) rooms, Hydrogen Battery rooms, and mechanical rooms dedicated for ventilation. There is also a two-story administration support are in the Chiller Utility Building.The project has two complete central plants which will supply each half of the building with a total cooling capacity in excess of 15,000 tons each (30,000 total installed tons of refrigeration). The two plants consist of a total of 24 chillers, 24 cooling towers, 24 plate and frame heat exchangers that will be used for water slide economizer, 24 condenser water filtration systems, 48 vertical inline type pumps, 24 vertical turbine pumps and 12 air handling systems. Data Center spaces include over 120,000 square feet of raised floor and the UPS/USS/MDF rooms that are served by over four hundred 35-ton Computer Room Air Conditioning Units. Eight indoor air handling units provide ventilation and twelve systems provide required exhaust capabilities. Four thermal energy storage tanks with a capacity of over 1,600,000 gallons of chilled water provide cooling operation capabilities in the event of electrical power outage. If the city water supply is interrupted, the chilled water storage tanks can by used as emergency make-up water for the cooling tower systems. Main building system power is delivered using two 60 Megawatt sources (one primary, one redundant). Back-up electrical power is prvided by twenty-eight 2.5 Megawatt generators. The fuel oil system incorporates 240,000 gallons of underground fuel oil storage tanks, twenty-eight 400 gallon day tanks, and two complete fuel polisher systems. Architects:
Mitchell Hugeback Architects St. Louis, Missouri Engineer:
EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc. Construction Manager:
Turner Construction Company Complete:
2009 |
