IMEG’s San Francisco structural team provided engineering design and services for two of Oracle Peoplesoft’s five-story office buildings. Each building features a mechanical penthouse, a two-story data center, and one 33,890-sf commons facility with multiple roof levels and a truncated, cone-shaped roof feature. Structural steel construction was used for the office building complex. Also included
Project Market: Data Centers
New Supercomputer
Argonne National Laboratory’s former supercomputer, Mira, was an IBM BlueGene/Q system ranked the #3 supercomputer in the world when it was in use. Mira performed at 8.15 petaflops or 8.15 quadrillion floating-point operations per second and could conduct 10 quadrillion calculations per second. Argonne’s goal was to have Mira handle more than 5 billion computations
New Commuter Rail Facility
IMEG provided design and construction services for the new Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility in Denver, CO. This 230,000-sf facility provides commuter rail vehicle maintenance for the Denver regional area. The facility incorporates a large multi-track multi-tier vehicle maintenance bay, support spaces, warehouse, training facilities, administrative offices, data center, and systems control operation center. Six 900-foot commuter rail tracks run through
New LEED Platinum Office Building
Wellmark consolidated operations into its first corporate-owned headquarters and has been awarded LEED Platinum for its design. It is the largest commercial office building in the world to receive this rating for new construction. The five-story office building includes a full-service kitchen with servery and dining room, a 16,000-sf conference center, several training rooms, a 6,500-sf data
Data Systems Upgrade
IMEG provided design for upgrades to the Port of San Antonio’s existing facility and signal reference grounding systems for a 100,000-sf data center. The design installation complied with Military Handbook 419A (Grounding, Bonding, and Shielding for Electronic Equipment and Facilities). The design allowed for a phased installation and cutover approach to minimize impact of the
LEED Platinum Data Center
ACT’s new data center project kicked off with an assessment and feasibility study. Three options were considered in the assessment: upgrade the existing building which included an extensive review of the infrastructure and routing spaces available, build a new external facility, or build a new data center within the existing facility. The detailed report determined
New Corporate Headquarters and Data Center
Athene USA, (formerly Aviva USA) the world’s fifth largest insurance group, built a new U.S. Corporate Headquarters in West Des Moines, Iowa. The building accommodates more than 1,200 employees and is LEED Gold certified. The building features an open floor design for flexibility in arranging office layout and also includes a fitness center, print room,