Bell BCI Company, LLC completed the Mechanical and Plumbing scope of work on a new secure data center and generator building for the Verizon – Terremark Network Access Point (NAP) campus located in Culpeper, VA. This 60,000 SF, high-capacity data center, which features multiple layers of redundancy for facility operations, networking, security, power and HVAC, meets Uptime Institute Tier-III Requirements. The new facility is designed with security features to help customers satisfy FISMA criteria and has a power capacity of 160 WPSF.
This project marks another successful mission-critical project for Bell in the Mid-Atlantic’s burgeoning Data Center industry. Hitt Contracting Inc. selected Bell from the area’s highly competitive mechanical contracting field, taking advantage of multiple value engineering initiatives to improve performance, reduce schedules, minimize cost, and mitigate risk. Bell’s extensive use of BIM enabled the construction team to meet Terremark’s aggressive schedule: the data center was commissioned and delivered in less than a year. Both Data Center D and the Generator Building were complete and open for business by the end of October 2015.
Maximizing the prefabrication of piping systems contributed to the successful on-time completion of this project. Equipment installed included (3) Chillers, (6) Dry-coolers, (1) Systecon Pump Package, (1) OAU, (1) ADU-1, (27) CRAC Units, (1) CUH, (2) Exhaust Fans, (4) Fuel oil storage tanks, (18) Unit Heaters, (5) Sump Pumps.
Bell Constructors, LLC was selected to perform the mechanical and plumbing scopes of work for long-time industry partner Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) for their new advanced testing and development laboratory in Shrewsbury, PA.
VCU Health opened its new 18-story, 604,000 SF Adult Outpatient Pavilion on December 6, 2021. The $384 million building features clinical space, including lab and imaging services, as well as a retail pharmacy. It also houses a 475,000-square-foot parking deck with more than 1,000 spaces. Hourigan was the project’s general contractor. Bell served as the Mechanical and Plumbing design-assist subcontractor.
