IU Data Center – Big Red
Category: Data Centers
Customer: Indiana University
Three 11,000-square-foot computer equipment rooms are the highlight of this 82,700 square foot facility. The IU Data Center houses critical computing, networking and storage equipment, including IU’s Big Red and Quarry supercomputers to serve all Indiana University campuses throughout the state. The new facility is the largest data center among higher education institutions in the state of Indiana, and among the largest regionally. Typical Liebert Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) units were not the best method to cool this powerful computing system, so HFI provided an in rack cooling system with hot aisles and cold aisles, and a new mechanical room with heat exchanges and pumping to deliver 550 tons of cooling directly to the front of the computer racks via welded piping as large as 10”. The piping and equipment provide N+1 redundancy.
IU wanted to efficiently utilize valuable square footage and control extreme dust, under critical schedule constraints. HFI’s project team developed a 3-D model of the project to meet these concerns. HFI’s AutoCad model demonstrated that the mechanical room was constructed in the smallest space possible. The model also uncovered an unforeseen condition to which HFI proposed a new pipe configuration before construction began, avoiding an expensive change order. To eliminate the dust HFI completed as much welding as possible offsite in our pre-fabrication shop. HFI utilized a complete line of HEPA filtered drills, vacuums, and weld smoke air filters to eliminate dust from work done on site.
“We met or exceed the customer’s expectations on this complicated and critical project.” – Dave Mood, Vice President/Project Manager.
HFI Leadership on this Project Include:
Project Manager: David Mood
Assistant Project Manager: Dustin Carter
Superintendent: Nathan Hagerty
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