State Street Data Center | Tradeline, Inc.

The $29-million data center is the first new building undertaken from the ground up in 25 years by State Street, a leading global custodian of mutual funds with assets that exceed $4.4 trillion. Because the facility handles the flow of $2 billion in daily transactions and nearly 20 percent of all New York Stock Exchange transactions, as well as storing critical information, the building relies on stringent computer back-up systems. In addition the Data Center features complex electrical, mechanical, and security infrastructure systems. Through a redundant-systems design--in effect, the duplication of all electrical and mechanical systems--the facility provides for "failsafe operation" and safeguards against crises such as utility failures, internal failures, vandalism, or severe weather.

The building is organized with the redundant infrastructure and office space on the first floor and the data center above. Designed to optimize the interrelationships of infrastructure components for efficiency and reliability, the plan allows for their adjacency to raise the floor areas. The construction of the building also meets rigorous standards for reliability in all of its systems. The exterior skin exceeds code compliance and can withstand 120 mph winds. The roof is pitched in one direction, has no penetrations, and drains avoid the computer rooms. Windows are in non-critical areas only. In addition, there are two complete UPS systems with corresponding generators, fuel tanks, and paralleling gear, and two chiller plants with respective pumps, cooling towers, and piping distribution.

Taking advantage of the visibility of the ten-acre site from all sides, the design reinforces long views and concentrates the required service access to one side of the building. Landscape elements and pre-cast site walls respond to security requirements of keeping vehicles 100 feet from the building. Bridging the 100-ft space between the parking area and the entry is a covered walkway.

Approaching the security lock, the ceiling height lowers. Passing through these doors, one enters a tightly controlled space, leading either to the left office area, the infrastructure straight ahead, or on the right to the elevator and stairs to the 40,000-sf "Command Center" on the second floor. The Command Center, with tiered seating for unobstructed viewing, also has 30 ft-high raised flooring to accommodate the main computer rooms, print room, tape room, and a "war" room.

Project Management: To facilitate communications between team members in Boston and Kansas City, a project Web site was initiated to provide a secure communications vehicle and central source for up-to-date estimates, schedules, owner authorizations, CAD drawings, meeting minutes, RFIs, and other important documents for the team's use. This included real-time monitoring of construction progress for State Street through the connection of an on-site digital camera.

Project Information

Building Owner:

State Street Corporation

Owner Contact:

Robert J. Kirslis, Vice President

Building Location:

Kansas City, MO UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Data center

Project Delivery Method:

Construction Management

Project Timeline

Mar 1997	Planning Start
Apr 1997	Design Start
Sep 1997	Construction Start
Dec 1998	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$29,000,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$290

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Data Center
Office

Total GSF:

100,000

Building Population:

Special Equip:

Round-the-clock operation with six 1,250 kw generators, four 750 kw UPS (uninterrupted power service) systems, four 450-chillers, four 1,000-ton cooling towers, and a 3,600 point building management and integrated control system which enables the system to operate self-sufficiently for up to five days. Generator capacity to supply enough power to light 500 houses. Electromagnetic wave shield for building which protects computers from any potential disruption (pagers will not work in computer room). Embassy-level security standards including vehicle barriers, advanced surveillance systems, security access technology such as biometrix platforms for handprints, and an elaborate alarm system.

Office Size:

10'x15' / 8'x8' NSF

Power Req:

Total 40 w/sf over 50,000 sf

HVAC Req:

900 tons of cooling dual path design

Structure/Foundation:

Braced-frame steel with concrete spread footings

Project Team

Architect

Carlson Associates

Construction Management

GBH Macomber Company

Contractor

J.E. Dunn Construction

Supplier - Ceiling

Armstrong World Industries

Supplier - Elevators

KONE Inc.

Supplier - Exterior Skin

Viracon

Supplier - Flooring

Tate Access Floor

Supplier - Flooring

Armstrong World Industries

Supplier - Insulation

Johns Manville

Supplier - Insulation

Celotex

Supplier - Materials

Weyerhaeuser

Supplier - Materials

Sargent

Supplier - Roofing

Johns Manville

Supplier - Roofing

Carlisle

Supplier - Roofing

Carlisle SynTec

Profile Created 11/01/1999

Last Updated 04/04/2006

About the Reported Cost Figures

The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.

Fig. 1

Exterior View

Landscape elements and pre-cast site walls respond to security requirements of keeping vehicles 100 feet from the building.

Fig. 2

Interior View

The $29-million data center is the first new building undertaken from the ground up in 25 years by State Street, a leading global custodian of mutual funds with assets that exceed $4.4 trillion.