Technical Real Estate - Property Investments and Data Centres for Lease

GORE HILL – Sydney - Australia

Location

The site is located at Gore Hill in Sydney and the data centre is under construction with a completion date expected 4th Qter 2011. The data centre is appropriately set back from the Pacific Highway towards the rear of the 5 hectare site. The Gore Hill location is 6km from the city CBD and provides an ideal position to support active / active computer systems between Gore Hill and the CBD based production systems of the tenant.

Description

The data centre is a 3 ½ level building providing an overall building area of 11,273 sqm. The building provides a half floor of office, 2 floors of data halls and associated plant and equipment areas. The two data hall floor levels each provide a floor plate size of approx 3100sqm and approx 2000sqm of computer placement area. The initial design of the facility was based on TRE’s DC 4000 design.

Specification

S/No	Service	Designation	Specification/ Proposal
1	Building	Data centre floor space	2000-3000m² contiguous floor space seperated into 3 distinct rooms
2	Building	Structure floor loading	12kPA
3	Building	Clear ceiling height	4.0M
4	Utility Supply	Incoming HV feeds	Dual redundant source A+B (2N)
5	Utility Supply	Transformers	2N
6	Electrical	Emergency power generator	2N
7	Electrical	UPS system configuration	2N
8	Electrical	UPS battery autonomy	15 minutes autonomy at load
9	Electrical	Final circuits to cabinets	2N (32A circuits) including branch circuit monitoring
10	Electrical	DC power system	2N (2000A, -48V) 4hrs of autonomy at full load
11	Electrical	Cabinet requirements	500-600 cabinets (600x1200x2200)
12	Electrical	Power capacity for cabinets	4.5 kVA average (Maximum of 12 kVA)
13	Mechanical	Cooling (CRAC) units	N+1 unit redundancy
14	Mechanical	Heat rejection (Chiller) units	N+1 unit redundancy
15	Mechanical	Cooling reticulation	Ring perimeter served from dual risers. No single point of failure.
16	Mechanical	Fluid leak detection	To all Colocate cabinet areas along pipe work routes
17	Fire Protection	Alarm and detection	Convential and VESDA
18	Fire Protection	Suppression	Pre-action sprinkler (offices). Gas suppression (cabinet area).
19	Security	Intruder detection	CCure 800+ system (Chubb) to comply with local regulations
20	Security	CCTV	All entrances and exits, all cabinet aisles, external areas.
21	Security	Access control	All entrances and exits
22	BMS/ FM	Building management system	Monitoring and control of all E&M services
23	Telecom	Telecom riser	Dual access and dual risers for major local carriers

Artist Impression

Canberra Technology City

Under Construction

Canberra Technology City

Data centre under construction. Date 19th July 2011.

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