GlaxoSmithKline Data Center - Collegeville, PA
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Scope: Electrical Construction
Contract Amount: $28,000,000.00
Completion Date: 6/1/2009
GSK Data Center is a 200,000-square-foot building consisting of two floors and an enclosed electrical/mechanical yard. The underground electrical installation includes 125,000 feet of 4 inch and 5 inch conduit, 26 large precast vaults, 57,000 tons of stone, and a building grounding system and lighting protection system.
The building electrical system, in addition to the normal power and lighting, has a very sophisticated redundancy due to the purpose of the building. It has two incoming 35KV services, with two service entrance buildings each having Power Con switchboards with the ability to tie the two together.
There are two 15MV transformers 35KV/13.2KV and two Indoor 13,2KV switchboards, which feed ten 13.2 KV-480/277 indoor sub stations consisting of a 15KV switch, 3000KVA transformer and secondary section with various sizes of draw out circuit breakers.
Emergency power for the building consists of eight 2 megawatt generators with the required paralleling switchboards and loadbanks.
The building has twenty main distributor panels, thirty lighting and power panels, nine uninterruptable power panels, 13 relay lighting panels, 45 small transformers of various sizes, and 32 automatic transformer switches (for mechanical equipment). We installed approx. 2500 lighting fixtures, 250 OCC sensors, 71 site lighting poles, 9000' of cable tray, a fire alarm system with 260 A/V's, 2000 detectors, a security system of card access and a number of cameras.
There are sixteen 1000KVA UPS with four battery rooms, each having 480 batteries, 4 - 2500AMP switches and a battery monitoring system, connected through six switchboards to 24 static transfers switches, 24-5001 < VA 600-120/208 transformers, 24 power distribution switchboards and 90 remote power panels fed from two sources.
All of the large circuit breakers were calibrated and tested. All of the cable was tested and all equipment was commissioned.
