Showcase Projects
Verio Data Center

Client/Owner
Verio Data Center

Location
Sterling, Virginia

Architect/Engineer
Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott

General Contractor
Holder Construction Company

Contract Amount
$6,400,000

The Project
Verio, a data communications provider, sought to build a new facility that would enhance their 24/7 support operation. The Verio data center is an 88,000 square foot data center, which houses over 60,000 square feet of computer rooms.

PK Role
Poole and Kent installed the mechanical systems on this project, including: (4) 500 Ton Chillers with Plus One Redundancy (Full occupancy rating), (4) 500 Ton Cooling Towers with Plus One Redundancy (Full occupancy rating), (2) Outside Air Handling Units, (9) Corridor Air Handling Units, (80) Data Aire Computer System, and an 84,000 Gallon Fuel Oil System. Poole and Kent also provided design assistance on all mechanical and BAS Systems.

Highlights/Challenges
The challenge of this important high-tech project was to form an integrated team with the Owner, Engineer, and General Contractor to design and build this 88,000 square foot Data Center by the completion date. The Poole and Kent Corporation accepted the challenge. The Owner, Engineer and General Contractor recognized Poole and Kent’s strengths from the on, as schedules critical for success were based on our coordinated effort to transform a shell of a building into the flagship center for Verio. The 88,000 square foot shell building houses over 60,000 square foot of computer rooms generating 150 BTU's per square foot.

The Poole and Kent Corporation ensured the successful completion of the project by taking the coordination lead and actively pursuing the most competitive final completion costs for the owner. All mechanical systems were re-designed in-house from the original contract documents. This was achieved with the concurrence of the Engineer and Owner, keeping a careful eye on the critical and aggressive time frame that the construction project entailed. The re-design philosophy focused on system performance as well as system redundancy for this state-of-the-art Data Center, where 24/7 sustainability is critical.

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