Data Centre Solutions
Case Study: Maersk
The Client
Established in 1904, Danish shipping and logistics giant, Maersk, has grown into a global company employing 110,000 people in 125 countries worldwide.
The Challenge
Maersk took out a lease on floors 11 and 12 of The Plaza, a prestigious office building on Liverpool’s Old Hall Street, offering the city’s largest commercial floorplate. The building’s owners had refurbished the two storeys but had created a ‘blank canvass’ office space for the new tenant to fit out to its own requirements.
Amongst those requirements was a completely new data suite to provide all the IT services to Maersk’s new offices. This area had to be kept at a constant and precise temperature to ensure the smooth running of the client’s IT systems and prolong the life of the hardware.
The Solution
Offering the client a joined up approach and single point of contact, Kimpton Building Services worked alongside Trustland Construction and The Rosebery Group as TKR to tackle the £2 million refurbishment project.
The two 27,000 sq ft floorplates were converted into manageable work spaces, meeting rooms and offices with the installation of glazed partitions. Walnut flooring was installed throughout and the existing air conditioning system was stripped out and replaced with the client’s own specification.
For the data centre, TKR created an air tight, pressurised room within the office area, with its own air conditioning system, designed to keep the data centre at a constant temperature of 21°C. The air conditioning system is accurate to +/- 0.5°C and the atmosphere is controlled at 50% humidity, accurate to within +/- 5%. The team also installed complex cabling requirements to ensure the fit out was futureproofed.
