Data Center Decommission and building Gutting

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Data Center Decommission and Building Gutting
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Case Studies
Viacom Data Center NJ
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In 1988 Viacom built a 107,000 square foot data
center facility in Secaucus NJ.  Eventually the
building was purchased by CPR, a real estate
investment company, who hired Quantum Technology
to gut the data center and bring the building
back to a point where it could be repurposed and
re-leased.  Quantum claimed we could do the job
for free and use the assets to pay for the labor,
trucking, warehousing, rentals, machinery, admin
time, insurances, etc. and make a profit.
 Chesky, the owner, said afterwards (loosely
quoting).. you have a great talent where you can
turn almost anything into money. I dont know how
you do it. I know how to buy properties and turn
leases and sales into money. But I would love to
learn how to do what you do.  Cheskys terrific,
and a good friend.  We did 3 more projects for
him after that, hopefully more to come.
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Project details We brought in our electricians
to trace all of the wiring. It was a 4 day job.
Viacom had layered and layered the wiring over a
number of years and we werent able to find any
blueprints. This is sometimes the case with older
data centers. Once we had the wiring mapped out
we were able to do the disconnects. We could have
brought in a glycol tanker to pull the glycol out
of the building, but instead we drained it into
255 gallon totes for refining and reselling. Our
crew tore out the entire data center, including
floors, ceiling, piping, cabling, equipment.
Everything was resold or recycled. We sold 3
generators from the property. Two of them were
13,200v Caterpillar generators that we sold to a
cement company, along with the medium voltage
switchgear and controls.
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We had to open up the side of the building to
remove them. We drained the underground tank, and
did all of the research to have the tank dug up
and certified removed. The crew removed glass
partition walls and drywall, including brick
walls. We subcontracted with a company to re-pipe
the air handlers of the building. A previous
vendor had taken a generator on the side of the
building, but left the base tank and enclosure.
We could not find a home for them, so we cut them
up and scrapped them as metal. All the dry
coolers were resold, as well as the many UPSs,
switchgear, cabinets, and other data center
related items.
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