Tier III+ Polaris Data Centre - Springfield
Springfield Land Corporation in conjunction with a number of partners including Suncorp Metway Ltd and Strategic Directions, is finalising lease commitments for the Tier III+ Polaris Data Centre recently completed at Springfield in South East Queensland.
Completion Announcement:
Thiess Pty Ltd successfully achieved Practical Completion on 30 January 2009 on the Polaris Data Centre. Strategic Directions in association with Coffey Projects witnessed all interdependency and integrated systems tests across the facility, and all Project Requirements, to enable awarding of the Certificate of Completion on Friday 30 January. Tenants including Suncorp, Queensland Government, NEC Australia and Ipswich City Council will now commence transition into the facility.
Leasing Announcement:
- Limited raised floor remaining
- Average power and cooling capacity from 800W/sqm to 1500W/sqm available from under $3,200/sqm per annum
- Capable of supporting high density racks up to 60kW
- Tier III+ data centre featuring N+2 redundancy
- Customer occupation from 1 February 2009
- Contact Mike Andrea for more information (Mobile: 0410 551 080)
The Strategic Directions Group has been engaged by Springfield Land Corporation to provide CIO Services, Strategic ICT advice, ICT Master Planning services, ICT industry facilitation, project management services, data centre design and marketing support services.
The Polaris Data Centre delivers a key component of the ICT Master Plan for the Springfield CBD.
The Polaris Data Centre is presented to the market as a simple Data Centre Realty solution - offering raised-floor or 'co-location' space to customers. Many organisations that have traditionally built, owned and operated their own data centres have realised that managing and maintaining the building (property) and infrastructure (water, power, air conditioning) components are not core business.
Overview
- Purpose designed and built Tier 3+ facility
- 14,000m2 building over 5 levels
- 6,999m2 of raised floor Data Centre area over 3 levels available for customer use
- Scalable, redundant power and cooling capacity ranging from 800W/m2 to 1500W/m2
- 1600kg/m2 slab floor loading capacity across all floors
- 1500kg/m2 raised-floor loading across all data centre floors
- Onsite storage of diesel and recycled water delivering 48 hours sustainability
- 24x7 manned security and facilities management
- Biometric man-traps on each Data Centre floor
- Secure loading dock with vehicle trap
- Full security camera monitoring
- Located in a safe location over 25km radial distance to Brisbane CBD
- Linked through a diverse dark-fibre network connection to Brisbane CBD, and local fibre-optic connections across Springfield CBD
- Configured to act as a Carrier Interconnect Exchange for Springfield CBD tenants
- Multi-carrier enabled
- High-speed Internet backbone connectivity
- Designed in consideration of new generation blade server and data storage technologies
Timeframes
(Polaris Construction is Complete and is now Operational)
- Construction commencement: October 2007
- Construction completion: November 2008
- Practical Completion: January 2009
- Operational readiness: 1 February 2009
Project Team
- Springfield Land Corporation (Joint Venture Owner and developer)
- Suncorp Metway Ltd (Joint Venture Owner)
- Strategic Directions (Design Authority)
- Thiess Pty Ltd (primary contractor to design and construct)
- Diecke Richards (Architect)
- Multitech Solutions (mechanical, lifts and fire consultants)
- Webb Australia Pty Ltd (electrical, communications and security consultants)
- Coffey Projects (Project Sheriff)
