Capital One, Knolls Data Center 3

Location:                         Richmond, VA
Size:                                 24,000 SF of Raised Floor
Cost:                                 $30M
Engineer of Record:      EYP MCF
Prime Contractor:         Project Solutions Group
Start Date:                      September 2008
Date of Completion:     On-Going
Project Type:                 Data Center

Project Description and Scope:

Primary Integration is currently completing commissioning services for the Knolls Data Center 3 project. 

This project is the third separate mission critical data center within the existing mission critical facility. The project added approximately 23,000 square feet of raised floor and utilize approximately 20,000 square feet for utility system infrastructure to support nominally 125 watts per square foot of conditioned electrical power. The support infrastructure addition will include all aspects of electrical, mechanical, fire suppression; BAS control system, etc. to provide a 2N level of reliability. Installation of exterior site mechanical cooling components, fuel tanks and fuel delivery system required the addition of a new courtyard at the South end of the building over an existing parking lot.

As the 3rd Party Commissioning Agent, Primary Integration performed a detailed review of system design and sequence of operations for this project.  This included the project drawings and specs and submittals for critical equipment. PI Solutions attended factory witness testing of critical infrastructure systems, including UPS systems, Static Switches, Generators and Paralleling Switchgear, Chillers and Building Automation Systems. PI performed site arrival inspections of the critical MEP equipment and perform periodic site inspections for installation QA/QC during the equipment installation by the contractors. PI Solutions prepared the Functional and Integrated Systems Test Scripts.  PI performed the testing of critical equipment and systems (Level 3, 4 and 5) and prepared Integrated Systems Test (IST) procedures and IST Plan with participation of the project team.  PI executed the IST testing and prepared and submitted a final commissioning report for the client.  PI developed site specific operational procedures for normal, maintenance and failure modes of operation for critical electrical and mechanical systems.  PI created a customer training program and performed oversight of the contractors and vendors training. 

The project commissioning has been broken down in to 5 levels.

• Level 1 –  Factory Testing
• Level 2 –  Component Verification
• Level 3 –  System Construction Verification
• Level 4 –  Individual System Operation Verification
• Level 5 –  Integrated System Operation Verification