New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) enlisted Syska Hennessy and LS3P to provide a viable solution to expand its critical facilities portfolio to support existing functions and foster future growth.

The new data center and critical facility infrastructure system was constructed in existing unfinished shell space located in the service level of the new Surgery Pavilion. The program includes:

• Raised Floor space to support up to 80 IT cabinets including typical server racks, storage racks, and network distribution racks.
• Industry Standard Tier 2+ with concurrent maintainability features
• Mechanical/Electrical infrastructure to support up to 410 kW of IT load
• Network Operations Center (NOC) for up to 12 operators
• DEMARC rooms to support relocation of the existing fiber providers to the data center
• Receiving, storage and set-up (burn-in) areas to support refresh operations

All of the infrastructure (CRAHs, PDUs, etc.), with the exception of the Remote Power Panels (RPPs), is located outside of the computer room space.

The integrated project team delivered this fast-track project in less than nine months. Working closely with NHRMC IT stakeholders they mapped out the technology deployment and size and specified the corresponding power and cooling infrastructure to support Day 1 load with the expansion capabilities to ramp-up to the ultimate load.