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Location: New York, NY

Type: Data Center Decommissioning

Scope: De-energize all electric, disconnect and remove all equipment from 7 floors, pull over a half million pounds of feeders and over 600,000 lbs of batteries and recycle.

Duration: 3 months

Client: A “Global High Tech Information” company. Their privacy policy restricts advertising their name. However, they will provide a reference and recommendation of Quantum upon request.

A “Global High Tech” company made the decision to relocate their 400,000 square foot Data Center on West St. in Manhattan to Orangeburg NY. Their lease at West Street  required them to dismantle and remove almost all of the infrastructure that supported the old data center.  The company received recommendations from several different sources to engage Quantum Technology to execute the decommission, and monetize the assets.  Quantum ran a 30 – 40 man crew for 16 weeks.  At the end of the operation, the company received substantial revenue and was extremely satisfied with the work.

Project Details:
Size of space: 400,000 square feet, 4 floors and partial roof, 15 mW facility.
Quantum was responsible for de-energization and verification of electrical systems, safe off, lock and tag out
Decommission, removal, sale or recycling of the following material:

1680 Jars (667,200 lbs) of wet cell lead acid batteries plus their supporting battery disconnects and racking
541,981 pounds of feeder cabling and wire
92 Liebert PDU’s
27- Liebert UPS Systems
All associated Switchgear lineups, breaker cabinets, electrical panels and lineups
Furniture from offices and common spaces, DC plants and rectifiers
1800 Data cabinets, several thousand PDU strips
295,240 pounds of steel scrap

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Location: Ashburn, VA

Type: Data Center Decommissioning

Scope: Dismantle 100K SF of data center space. Remove all equipment, pull all feeders, prepare the space for new data center build out.

Duration: 10 weeks

Client: DPR Construction for Informart Data Centers

When Infomart Data Centers, a national data center provider, wished to open up operations in Ashburn, VA, they identified the old AOL Data Center building as an ideal location, and hired DPR Construction to do the design and build out.  DPR Construction, a national construction firm booking around $4 billion in new builds per year, contracted with Quantum Technology to decommission the old data center and purchase the assets.

Project Details:
The job consisted of decommissioning over 120,000 square feet of data center spaces including:

6 Main data centers of 15,000 square feet each containing:
96 CRAC units, (48) Cyberex PDU’s, (168) RPP’s, electrical panels and server racks
3 UPS Rooms with (15) UPS Systems and associated Switchgear
3 Battery Rooms with approximately 800,000 lbs. of wet cell lead acid batteries
A Chiller plant with (5) chillers and an Inergen Fire Suppression System

In addition to the equipment decommission, Quantum also recycled approximately 328,000 lbs of non ferrous metal and 443,000 lbs of scrap steel.
The project took approximately 10 weeks, running a 30 – 40 member crew.
Quantum completed Pre-task checklists each day identifying the day’s tasks, crew assignments, possible hazards and ways to avoid them.
The hazards were identified by all members of each team, so as to encourage full participation in creating a 100% safe working environment.
Crew members operated under Osha regulations with forklift and fall protection certification.
The client was extremely satisfied with the work, and the building became a major Data Center for Infomart.

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Location: Greensboro, NC

Type: Building Clean-out including data center and electrical room

Scope: Prepare the interior for build out and relocation of Christ Church

Duration: 2 weeks

Client: Christ Church

Christ Church in Greensboro had located a former Data Center building that they wanted to remodel and use as their new church. Buddy Turner and his team solicited a number of quotes from local construction companies to do an interior demolition of the site, but the numbers they got back were very high. They needed everything to be removed before they could convert the space into a place of worship. That’s when they found Quantum Technology. We were able to pay Christ Church for the assets we took out of the building. They used that money towards the purchase of new Church flooring. All the labor was done for free, including the disconnect and removal of UPS equipment, the electrical room, remediated R22, raised access flooring — all while leaving their partitioning walls intact. We even left a stage of raised flooring for them to use for their pulpit.

Project Details:
The data center contained raised floor, cooling units, PDU’s, UPS’s and other equipment. All equipment was disconnected and removed. The console was dismantled and removed. Data center furniture like this is often available from Quantum at the 200K SF warehouse in Shippensburg PA. The space was transformed into a beautiful place of worship.

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Location: Reno, NV

Type: Data Center Decommissioning

Scope: Disconnect all equipment, remove, return to original condition

Duration: 4 weeks

Client: Renown Health

Quantum met with Matt Grimes of CBRE in December 2014 to inventory the old Oracle data center in Reno NV.  Matt’s goal was to sell the building or find a new tenant who would utilize the data center assets.  If no buyer or tenant materialized, Matt was prepared for Quantum to do a complete decommission and market the building as office space only.  Within the next few months Renown Health purchased the property.  Matt referred Quantum to Renown, and their GC, Lindsey York sold Quantum the surplus assets and used Quantum to do the decommission and removal.

Project Details:
3516 SF raised floor including understructure and all conduit and cable beneath the floor.
183 Data Cabinets
7 Liebert CRAC units
4 Roof mounted condensing units
14 Transformers
40 Liebert XDO16DK-0 Air Conditioners mounted in ceiling
5 Electrical room switchgear line ups and panels
We visited the data center in December, several months before the project started. A Walk through is helpful in determining scope, forming a proposal, and identifying any unexpected conditions that may have been overlooked. The Air conditioners had to be removed through the windows on the second. Quantum hired a window contractor to remove and replace the windows. Quantum is certified in fork lift and telescopic fork lift operation. The roof top units were removed with a crane. Quantum personnel did the rigging and used a local crane company to pick the units. A pick plan is generally submitted to the owner prior to pick, insurance documents are filed, and permits are secured for road closures and nearby airports if applicable.

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