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Location: Westminster, MA

Type: Data Center decommissioning and rooftop demolition

Scope: Removal all equipment in the data center; demolish and remove the roof top chilled water system

Duration: 2 weeks

Client: CBRE

One of the CBRE projects we worked on was in April 2019 with Gina Zastrow, a Project Manager for CBRE in New England.  At the time, Gina was part of an account team dedicated to Johnson Controls International, (JCI for short) and assigned to decommission the JCI data center on Simplex drive in Westminster Massachusetts.  The data center had exceeded its useful life, due to its age, and JCI decided to demolish it. JCI did not have in-house capabilities to do the demolition so Gina hired Quantum Technology who did the asset recovery and interior demo of the data center, and the demolition of a large cooling tower on the roof.

Project Details:
9,000 SF Raised Floor
6- Liebert Chilled Water units
1- Exide UPS and batteries
22- Dell server racks
6- Liebert condensing units
1- Gargantuan Cooling tower on the roof
All of the feeders and conduit

Quantum was responsible removing 9,000 SF raised floor, the UPS’s, CRAC units, batteries, Racks, and other miscellaneous equipment, including the roof top cooling tower.  Gina’s GC pulled the demo permits, did the electrical shut off, and drained the chilled water system. Quantum provided the crane, riggers, steel roll-offs, rigging equipment, materials and labor.  Mark Hussey was the CBRE facilities manager on the project and had direct hands on supervision. As far as I can tell, the project took 4 months to plan, and the decommission and demolition took about 4 weeks.  As Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”  The data center was taken down to bare floor and walls- “broom swept condition”. Quantum put down material to protect the roof in order to dismantle and remove the cooling tower without causing damage. The cooling tower frame was disassemble and removed as well.

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