Global Data Center Big Book

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Table of Contents

01 Team Organization

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About Us

03 Overall Services

04 Relevant Projects

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International experience and expertise in overall project / construction management and engineering design of mission critical facilities

01 AlfaTech Global Data Center Organization Chart

AlfaTech Team Leaders

Tim Chadwick Rich Garrison Bill Launikitis

Principal-in-Charge

Jeff Fini

Chris Lawson Ricky Hunt Derek Siu Europe Team Leaders

Asia Team Leaders

United States Team Leaders

Middle East & North Africa Team Leaders

Jihad Sadiq

Kevin Hall

Rajesh Samarth

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Jose

UK

France

Germany

UAE

Egypt

Saudi

Singapore

China

Indonesia

Our Team AlfaTech

TIM CHADWICK, PE, LEED AP PRE S I DENT Mech a n i ca l P ri n ci p a l

JEFF FINI, MBA, PE C EO P ri n ci p a l i n Ch a rg e

RICH GARRISON PARTNER T echno l o g y P ri n ci p a l

BILL LANIKITIS

MANAG I NG PRI NC IPA L Ov era l l PM

EDUCATION BS, Construction Management University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Honor Graduate - Cum Laude College of Architecture Dean’s List Graduate United States Air Force Association Scholar Florida Academic Scholar Cornell University, S.C. Johnson School of Management deferred acceptance

EDUCATION Related courses in: Project Management, Network

EDUCATION BS, Mechanical Engineering, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

EDUCATION MBA, Somerset University, England BS, Electrical Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA BS, Mechanical Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Architecture, Voice Systems, Cabling Infrastructure, Data Center Operations

AFFLIATIONS ASHRAE

AFFLIATIONS ASHRAE 7x24 Northern California Chapter Chairman of the Board ISPE

Voting Member, ASHRAE Energy Standard For Data Centers And Telecommunications Buildings - T-STDS-SPC 90.4

REGISTRATION Electrical Engineer: CA, NV, AZ, Oregon, UT, MN, NJ, MA

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 1986 - Present

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 1996 - Present

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 1994 - Present

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 1980 – Present

As a Senior Principal in AlfaTech’s Technology Division, Rich provides Project Management and Consulting Services to a wide variety of clients, specializing in the design, procurement, and implementation project management of technology and infrastructure. He has previously held IT Management and Director level positions in Data Center Design and Operations, Telecommun- ications, Network Architecture and IT Management. Rich now specializes in mission critical infrastructure design, project management and strategic management consulting. • Adobe OR1, Hillsboro, OR • VMWare, Wenatchee, WA • Symantec, North America • Apple Data Center, Confidential Location

Bill is a Project Controls and Construction Manager with the firm. He is a dynamic senior leader with proven track record in operations, management, and development. He has over 23 years of experience in data center development and renovation. Bill brings expertise in management of large complex projects, innovative execution and strategic operational initiatives for several million SF of data center space throughout the US, Europe and Asia Pacific.

As a President of Design for AlfaTech, Tim brings expertise in project management, consulting engineering and construction administration to the projects leads. His breadth of experience has provided exposure to a myriad of engineering challenges.

Jeff has over 25 years of experience in the engineering design, development, and execution of projects totaling over $13 billion worldwide. As founder of Alfa Tech Consulting Enterprises, Jeff has successfully grown the firm to its current staff size and expanded its location from the Silicon Valley to offices in Northern California, Asia and Australia. • Apple Data Center, Confidential LocationFacebook Data Center, Prineville, OR • VMWare, Palo Alto, CA • SAVVIS SC9, Santa Clara, CA • Adobe OR1, Hillsboro, OR

• Digital Realty, Santa Clara, CA • Equinix SV5, San Jose, CA • Equinix SV2, Santa Clara, CA • VMWare, Wenatchee, WA

• Confidential Client, Santa Clara, CA • Adobe OR1, Hillsboro, OR • Equinix DC5, Ashburn, VA • Equinix LA4, El Segundo, CA

• Apple Data Center, Confidential Location • Facebook Data Center, Prineville, OR • Facebook Data Center, Forest City, NC • Facebook Data Center, Lulea, Sweden • Cisco Systems, Mountain View, CA • Savvis SC9, Santa Clara, CA • Symantec, North America

• Advent Software, San Francisco, CA • Ebay North Campus, San Jose, CA • Nortel Networks, Santa Clara, CA

02 Locations

US San Francisco, California San Jose, California Los Angeles, California Atlanta, Georgia Edison, New Jersey

EUROPE Vienna, Austria Le, Denmark Paris, France Berlin, Germany

MIDDLE EAST Baghdad, Iraq Amman, Jordan

Bochum, Germany Frankfurt, Germany Hamburg, Germany Munich, Germany Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany

Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Doha, Qatar Abu Dhabi, UAE

Rostock, Germany Stralsund, Germany Wiesbaden, Germany Cologne, Germany Athens, Greece Madrid,Spain Zurich, Switzerland Istanbul, Turkey Birmingham, UK Bishop’s Strotford, UK Croydon, UK Edinburgh, UK Exeter, UK Leamington Spa, UK Leeds, UK London, UK Luton, UK

Al Ain, UAE Dubai, UAE Madiant Zayad, UAE AFRICA Beau Bassin, Mauritis Cairo, Egypt

ASIA Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh Dhaka, Bangladesh Dehradun, India Delhi, India Gandhingar, India Mumbai, India New Dehli, India Pune, India Rajkot, India

Maidenhead, UK Manchester, UK Nottingham, UK Stockport, UK Sunderland, UK Wakefield, UK

Visakhapatnam,India Manilla, Philippines Singapore, Singapore Bangkok, Thailand

Our Team McBains

CHRIS LAWSON P ro j ect D i rect o r Co s t Ma n a g emen t

RICKY HUNT P ro j ect D i rect o r L ea d Co s t Ma n a g er

DEREK SIU P ro j ect A rch i t ect

QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Association for Project Management Diploma in Surveying

QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture Masters in Architecture

QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS Bachelor of Science Degree (with Hons) in Quantity Surveying Postgraduate Certificate in Mechanical and Electrical Quantity Surveying Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Member of the Chartered Institute of Building Member of Association of Cost Engineers

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 2013 - Present

SUITABILITY FOR THE ROLE Experienced Cost Manager Experienced Employers Agent Proven effective working with proposed Strategic Lead and full team

Derek has over 7 years experience in multi- disciplinary teams delivering projects across a range of sectors, scales and locations across the globe He has been focused on the Mission Critical sector in the past 3.5 years, delivering data center projects across UK and Europe. Involved in all work stages. Architecture lead and multi-disc design coordination experience. Derek has recent resident architect experience on site in Sweden. PROJECT EXPERIENCE • AWS Data Center, Sweden* • AWS Data Center, Spain* • AWS Data Center, Frankfurt, Germany* • Equinix Data Center LD4.2, LD11, Slough, UK* • Equinix Data Center ZH4, Zurich, Switzerland* • Equinix Data Center ML5, Milan, Switzerland* • Confidential Cloud Data Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands* • VISA Data Center, Basingstoke, UK*

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 2002 - Present

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 1993 – Present

Ricky has over 18 years of experience in Cost Management, with project experience spanning science, research, laboratory, social housing, commercial, healthcare and industrial sectors. Ricky has delivered projects using single and two- stage traditional and design and build procurement arrangements. He has extensive experience of cost auditing, validation of actual cost and interrogating contractor purchase ledger and accounting systems. Ricky worked for many years within a dedicated health, science and education team and has extensive experience of delivering complex projects. • North Hertfordshire College • Biomedical Research • University of Oxford & ORH, Acute Vascular Imaging Building (AVIC) • Education and OMI • Culham Science Park • John Radcliffe Hospital, Level 7 Laboratories

Chris has over 27 years broad experience having worked in areas including office, industrial, education, banking, retail, leisure, residential, urban regeneration and airports. Chris has experience with most of the widely used standard forms of contract and procurement methods including traditional, design and build, measured term, as well as the more innovative, such as the T5 Agreement. In addition to the usual aspects of cost consultancy, he has experience in Project Monitoring for major financial lenders and the development of Supply Chains with BAA. • 234 Bath Road, Slough: Demo and construction of new 73,000 SF 3 story office building • Segro, Winnersh Triangle, Phase 1a: 195,000 SF office space in 2 four story buildings • Staples Warehouse, Corby: Alteration and fit- out works to existing 550,000 SF warehouse unit and offices • 13 Liverpool Rd, Segro: 112,000 SF Data Hall shell with plant gantry and ancillary offices.

*Individual’s past personal experience

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About Us

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AlfaTech

For over 30 years AlfaTech has built its reputation on providing the most innovative and sustainable engineering solutions from master planning through construction administration. We provide intelligent and innovative strategies at project inception in order to provide maximum benefit to our clients during the entire process. Our engineering design solutions are highly efficient and cost effective and promote the greatest possible return on investment for our clients. Our goal is to lasting relationships, be attentive to the needs of our clients and partners and be true team players. Our clients include numerous large multi-national firms, many ongoing clients we’ve been serving for years. AlfaTech is a leader is mission critical data centers on the international scale. Our data center experts have successfully delivered numerous data centers over the past fifteen years for several high-profile tech clients, many as ongoing clients today. The firm is regularly sought after for our expertise in these critical projects. AlfaTech is part of a larger network of experienced companies that provide relevant services across the globe. These firms possess the most innovative and brightest talent which promotes cutting edge solutions that pave the way for workplaces and workplace standards of the future. These companies operate from numerous offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Now with over 6,000 staff members worldwide and in over 30 countries we can serve all of our clients needs. Collectively, the expertise of AlfaTech and RSBG provides engineering solutions that augments the vision of our clients and enables the most groundbreaking workplaces that go beyond current trends and enable all future-of- work strategies.

McBains is a leading, inter-disciplinary property and construction consultancy providing a bespoke range of services to ‘blue chip’ corporates and public bodies throughout the UK and internationally. McBAINS

As one of the longest established consultancies in the UK, McBains provides a broad range of services to meet the unique and constantly changing requirements of our clients. With projects ranging from minor works to major contracts in excess of £1 billion, we cover all major sectors, from education to retail, custodial to residential, health to commerce, infrastructure to transport and industrial to conservation. Whether working as part of an externally sourced team, or as an entire in-house inter-discipline team, we offer an enthusiastic delivery-led service to achieve our clients’ objectives and, in many cases, improve upon their expectations. McBains is always striving to innovate, progress and succeed. We take routine tasks and with resolute reliability create something special. From our internal resources, whether an individual specialism or a inter-discipline service, we build the project team bespoke to each of our clients’ demands, saving time and money by capitalizing on the broad and diverse skills, knowledge and expertise that exist within the Group.

The Company has built its service offering to extend the range of services available to include:

Project Management

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Architecture

Cost Management Engineering Services

Civil and Structural Engineering

Building Surveying Asset Management FM Outsourcing.

McBains has differentiated its service range from that of a multi-disciplinary consultancy by operating an inter-disciplinary model. By integrating the processes and operational programming of the professional disciplines, the Group is able to enhance both the value and quality of the service provided. This creates cost savings across its projects throughout the design and construction process, as well as the underlying funding costs.

DORSCH GRUPPE

For nearly 70 years, the companies of the Dorsch Gruppe have been respected consulting and engineering partners for industrial clients, private investors, and public institutions.

With about 2,000 employees, the Dorsch Gruppe is one of Germany's largest independent planning and consulting companies. The companies and divisions are well-positioned in their markets, characterized by their wide range of engineering services and strong references in cooperative development.

Our employees serve people in all regions of the world with attention to quality, and orientation to the future. With locations in over 40 countries, we deliver all services for airports, transport and infrastructure, architecture, water and environment and industrial engineering.

Thus the companies of the Dorsch Gruppe are able to plan and competently oversee projects in all stages, both in Germany as well as abroad.

PELL FRISCHMANN

Pell Frischmann is one of the UK’s most influential and highly respected firms of consultant engineers.

Formed in London in 1926, we have a long history of challenging engineering and business conventions. Both are equally important to our success, and our high value clients trust us to help them achieve their ambitions.

Along with our remarkable history and the trust of our clients, we are backed by an investment trust with a long term environmental focus. This patient capital allows us to invest in growth at a human-speed comfortable with our culture of aiming to be the best and work with the best – not to be the biggest and work with everyone. In achieving that ambition, we have established ourselves as a hub for a diverse range of specialist firms across UK PLC, allowing us to bring the very best specialists in any field into our work, while remaining specialist at the things we do best.

We are pleased to say that the outcomes our clients seek are highly diverse.

We work with public bodies to generate local, regional, or national growth, and with utilities aiming for a more sustainable future. We collaborate with a range of agencies attempting to make infrastructure safer to use and easier to finance, and with property developers to make their property portfolio prosper.

This diversity of work is possible because of Pell Frischmann’s unique position in the industry.

Qvest Media is a world leading systems architect in the fields of broadcasting and media technology, specializing in the television, media and telecommunications industries. QVEST MEDIA

The company has locations in Cologne, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Madrid, Munich, London, Dubai, Zurich and Singapore with a team of over 200 employees. With a powerful spectrum of services consisting of consulting & development, systems integration and service & support, Qvest Media offers 360° expertise in the design, development, implementation and operational support of media technology infrastructures.

Qvest Media has specialized in the selection and distribution of AV and broadcasting IT products. Its partner network in this field includes the most innovative and important hardware and software manufacturers.

For its Box Sales business the company operates a well-equipped online shop for professional media technology. Qvest Media is also one of the biggest suppliers of dry-hire equipment and systems solutions for live broadcasting of events, sports and entertainment.

DESCO

Desco is an award-winning MEP consulting engineering practice with offices in the UK, Middle East and Far East.

Established in the UK in 1998 the practice has the critical mass and importantly, the caliber of people, design tools and effective support systems that allow it to compete with the very best in the industry and work on projects of all sizes.

Forming an exceptionally strong management team, the seven directors of the business each have over 20 years consultancy experience, working in the UK and international marketplace.

The business has developed an excellent reputation for delivering a high quality, professional service, and as a result, enjoys long term relationships with an established client base.

03 Overall Services

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PROJECT / CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN Heating Systems Water and Gas HVAC Cooling Systems/ Chilled Water Dehumidification Systems Contamination Sensitive Areas

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN Low Voltage Design Security Design Audio Visual Design Wireless Design & Modeling Strategic Consulting Relocation & Migration Project Management

Pre-design Site Analysis Site Selection / Master Planning

Project Delivery Method Design Team Selection Conceptual Design / Estimates / Schedules Entitlements

Industrial Hygiene Systems Low Tolerance Temp Control Title 24 Analysis and Design Heat Recovery Systems Central Utility Plants Air Handlers HVAC System Controls PLC Programming Fire Protection and Plumbing Process Engineering Building Information Modeling

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING DESIGN Lighting and Controls

Design Programing Review Schematic Design Review Review Design Development Constructability Reviews Estimates Master Schedules Utility Company Coordination Municipality Coordination Construction Bid Advertising Contractor Prequalification Bid / Contract Analysis Construction Management Project Controls

Customized ROI Calculations Sustainable Lighting Design Energy Savings Analysis Custom Lighting Fixtures Design

COMMISSIONING | ENERGY SOLUTIONS Early Quantifiable Energy Study Energy Star® Assessments Retro-commissioning (RCx) Monitoring Brand Continuous Commissioning (MBCCx) ASHRAE Level 1, 2 and 3 Energy Audits Measurement and Verification (M&V) of installed projects Energy Modeling Net Zero Energy Budgeting HVAC/Chilled Water Plant Optimization SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability Planning (Organizational/Infrastructure) LEED / Green Building Consulting Master Planning Life Cycle Cost Assessment Occupant Wellness and Comfort

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN Power Systems Emergency/Standby Power Systems Lighting and Lighting Controls Security Systems

24 / 7 Power Systems (UPS) Power Monitoring Systems Toxic Gas Monitoring Graphic Control and Alarm Panels Grounding and Bonding Energy Management Building Information Modeling Fire Alarm Systems Public Address Systems

Budget Management Schedule Management

Close Out Commissioning Validation Move-in Coordination Telecom/Data Coordination Operational & Maintenance Documents Training Coordination Final Lien Releases & Payments

Façade Engineering CFD / Wind Studies Thermal Stratification Studies Energy Concept Studies

Our Partner Services

McBAINS Project Management Cost Management Building Surveying

DORSCH GRUPPE Construction Engineering Airports Transport & Infrastructure

PELL FRISCHMANN Civil Engineering Deep Basement Engineering Environmental Impact Assessment

QVEST MEDIA Consulting Approach Business Consulting Operational Consulting

DESCO Consulting Services Design Consultancy Engineering Consulting

Employer’s Agent

Water & Environment

Environmental Modelling

Technology Consulting

MEP Design

Project Monitoring

Renewable Energy

Façade Engineering

Development

Building Physics

Master Planning & Urban Design

Project Management Construction Supervision

Fire Engineering Flood Engineering

Consultancy Services Systems Integration

Environmental Assessment Low Carbon Consultancy

M&E Engineering

Interdisciplinary Services

Geotechnical Engineering

Room Planning & Furniture

Building Information Models

Structural Engineering

Urban Development

Masterplanning

Managed Technology

Water Design

BIM

Industrial Engineering

Project Management

Transforming Media Landscape

Sustainability

Marinal Engineering

Structural Engineering

Rental Solutions & Services

WELL Building

Transport Planning

Product Management

04 Relevant Projects

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FACEBOOK – LEED GOLD Fort Worth, TX

Type: Data Center Size: Confidential

AlfaTech provided site selection support services and continues to provide overall design team project management as well as MEP, Architectural, Structural, Civil, Fire Protection, Controls, Wind Study, LEED Consulting, and Life Safety services for this extremely energy efficient Data Center project. Key design changes to this data center include a redesign of the building arrangement from single data center facilities with support office to a single facility with an office space bridging the equivalent of 2 data center facilities in past projects. In addition to the layout revisions, another major revision to the Core IT spaces was made to address current needs as well as future proofing the space for anticipated technology changes. The MEP system design includes a highly energy efficient design concept divergent from past data center cooling techniques at other project sites. This project represents the fifth data center site (in addition to the Prineville site in Oregon, Forest City site in North Carolina, Lulea site in Sweden, and the Altoona site in Iowa) which were also under AlfaTech project management and design services). The Client achieved LEED Gold Certification for this building.

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FACEBOOK – LEED GOLD Prineville, OR

Type: Data Center Size: Confidential

AlfaTech provided overall design team project management as well as site master planning, architectural, structural, civil, telecom and communications, paging systems, MEP, fire protection, controls, wind study, substation design, LEED consulting, and life safety services for this data center project.

This mission critical data center has direct evaporative cooling and N+1 block redundant electrical topologies.

This project involved the site master plan as well as design and construction of two main data center facilities on the site that include a single story with penthouse air handling equipment and outdoor standby diesel generators. The site also includes a cold storage data center facility managed and designed by AlfaTech to provide data storage services to meet the project goals to archive storage at reduced capital costs.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER | AC AC1 - Cupertino, CA

Type: Office, Data Center Size: 50,000 SF Data Center / 2,000,000 SF Total

AlfaTech completed design development documentation and design-build specifications to support bidding of a data center design-build project within a 50,000 SF office campus tenant improvement project. Innovative cold aisle containment design was described in bid documents by AlfaTech which ultimately was incorporated into final design.

AC2 - Cupertino, CA

Type: Office, Data Center Size: 80,000 SF

AlfaTech provided overall design and project management as well as comprehensive mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering services, acoustical, architectural, structural, civil, telecom and communications paging systems, controls, wind study and life safety services for this data center facility for this technology company.

AC3 - Newark, CA

Type: Data Center Size: 120,000 SF

AlfaTech provided overall design team project management as well as acoustical, architectural, structural, civil, telecom and communications, paging systems, MEP, fire protection, controls, wind study and life safety services for this confidential project. The overall plan included new central and cooling plants. Engineering services including master planning, central utility plant, engineering evaluations for various design options and ultimately design of shell/core and TI.

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VODAFONE (FORMERLY EXODUS)

Various Locations Worldwide

Type: Data Centers Size: 1.5 million+ SF Seattle, WA 500,000 SF; Irvine, CA 115,000 SF; Santa Clara, CA 300,000 SF; Chicago, IL 400,000 SF; Austin, TX 75,000 SF; Dallas, TX 160,000 SF Singapore 50,000 SF; Paris 35,000 SF; Amsterdam 45,000 SF; Sydney 50,000 SF; Toronto 400,000 SF; London 100,000 SF; Frankfurt 130,000 SF AlfaTech served Exodus in several projects worldwide providing project management, architecture, and engineering design including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services developing corporate data center design standards and implementing detailed designs for well over 2 million SF of data center facilities both nationally and internationally. These projects are 7/24 fully redundant raised floor data centers with complete UPS and generator backup systems. All projects consist of approximately 80% raised floor and 20% support facilities.

NORZETTA DATA CENTER

Rjukan, Norway

Type: Data Center Size: 380,000 SF

AlfaTech provided comprehensive site selection and conceptual design as well as engineering design for this 140MW project in Norway for two major US corporations and two European companies. The project scope includes state-of-the-art MEP design and is projected to comply with 1.14 PUE.

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EQUINIX LA 1 IBX FACIL ITY Los Angeles, CA

Type: Data Center Size: 61,000 SF

This $31 million project was completed in one phase and consists of approximately 51,000 SF of collocation space, and 10,000 SF of storage area.

The colocation area contains a proposed 530 cabinets, and was designed with stand-alone mechanical and electrical systems with interconnections to the existing 6th floor collocation where necessary for reliability or where indicated in the initial single line and flow diagrams.

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EQUINIX SV5 – LEED GOLD San Jose, CA

Type: Data Center Size: 170,000 SF data center with 40,000 SF support space.

AlfaTech has provided full project management and MEPT design services for this greenfield data center project.

The project includes 25MW of total power 18MW of critical power as well as parallel path designs for 5,000 ton chilled water plant utilizing pre-packaged modular chiller plant and full air side economizer air handling solution and an alternate, proprietary, refrigerant based cooling system. This project achieved LEED Gold status.

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ADOBE NA1 DATA CENTER

Hillsboro, OR

Type: Data Center Size: 70,000 SF

Adobe Systems selected AlfaTech to perform design services for its DC1 data center project located in the State of Oregon. This project is a greenfield design of a LEED Certified 70,000 SF steel and precast or tilt-up data center. The data center consists of approximately 30,000 SF of “data hall” space for IT/Server equipment, electrical, mechanical, and mezzanine rooms for critical infrastructure, office space, loading dock, and equipment storage. The design included 7,500 kW of critical IT power to the data hall, which was fed from 12kV main switchgear, new transformers and new UPS modules, new PDU’s and new distribution. HVAC is evaporative cooling plus supplemental direct expansion cooling. Design of hot aisle and cold aisle containment was also included. The construction included the complete building shell and a single 3MW POD with accommodations for expansion of the remaining 4.5MW.

ADOBE DATA CENTER (PHASE 2)

Hillsboro, OR

Type : Data Center Size : 100,000 SF

The firm provided full project management services for over 100,000 SF of mission critical data center infrastructure. This includes configuration of 5+1 block redundant electrical topology with RTU indirect evaporative cooling. Phase II expansion consists of 1.8Mw block and addition of supporting IDEC units, multiple UPS units and generator.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER Lulea, Sweden

Type: Data Center Size: Confidential

AlfaTech provided overall project construction management including on site observation and project tracking and reporting services. In addition to providing overall management of the design build team and on-site project tracking services, AlfaTech provided the project basis of design and peer review of the design build team construction documentation to ensure a complete, and consistent design. This peer review effort included MEP, telecom and communications, architectural, structural, civil, fire protection, controls, LEED consulting, and life safety services for this extremely energy efficient data center project.

This project represents the client’s third data center site also under AlfaTech project management and design.

CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER All locations for this client are confidential

Type: Data Center Size : Confidential

AlfaTech provided site selection support, overall design, and provided project management. The full range of services included: site master planning, MEP, telecom and communications, architectural, structural, civil, fire protection, controls, wind study, LEED Consulting, and life safety services for this extremely energy efficient data center project which has direct evaporative cooling and n+1 block redundant electrical topologies. Multiple standby generators and over 30MW of critical load. This project represents the second data center we were involved in with this client. This project achieved LEED Gold Certification for the three buildings on this site.

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PATHL INE

Sunnyvale, CA

Type: Data Center, Mixed Use Size: 7,000 SF Data Center / 350,000 SF Total

The firm provided full mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services for this campus project.

The project consisted of four buildings, warm core and shell, with labs, 7,000 SF data center with server load and UPS 1,500 kW, amenities building, fitness center, cafeteria, office space, meeting areas and a parking garage.

CHARLES SCHWAB

Various Locations

Type: Data Center, Mixed Use Size: 1,750,000+ SF

AlfaTech provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing engineering services as well as technology design for several projects totaling over 1.75m SF for this client. These projects included campuses, tech and data center evaluations, TI’s, feasibility studies, computer room upgrades and retail branches, at locations across the country. The newest retail branch location achieved LEED Gold certification for its sustainable features such as PV as a renewable energy source, low-flow water fixtures, and low-VOC finishes.

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EQUINIX SV2 – LEED CERTI F IED Santa Clara, CA

Type : Data Center Size : 60,000 SF

AlfaTech provided full mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection engineering, technology design services and overall design project management for tenant improvement to this existing operational collocation facility. This $41 million project includes two separate 22,000 SF build-outs with necessary utility infrastructure upgrades. Electrical design includes live conversion of 2N Data Center spaces to a 3+1 block redundant design and redistribution of existing loads. Mechanical design includes payback analysis for rooftop air handlers with air side economizer and central plant chiller upgrades to optimize system efficiency and reliability. AlfaTech acted as the LEED NC program coordinator and developed design and construction strategies to obtain it’s recently awarded LEED Certified Level status. The firm managed the entire application and appeals process without the use of a LEED consultant, including online documentation of sustainable measures implemented for certification. In order to meet the high data center demand in California’s Silicon Valley, Equinix targeted a rapid expansion/ conversion of their existing SV2 facility located in Santa Clara. AlfaTech led the design team and completed the MEP design for this fast-paced project. We were able to complete the project ahead of schedule, reduce the overall project costs, and incorporate sustainable construction practices. This project was awarded the 2008 Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine’s Gold ARC Award for renovation and the Silicon Valley Power Energy Innovator Award in the “Energy Efficiency Partner” category at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Energy Summit.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER All locations for this client are confidential

Type: Data Center, Office Size : Confidential

AlfaTech provided site master planning, building design and construction administration services for this project which contained eight single story data halls connected by an administration building with penthouse level direct evaporative cooled air handled equipment, rooftop condensing units and outdoor standby diesel generators to accommodate approximately 4,000 cabinets/32 MW critical IT load.

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Singapore SAVVIS

Type: Floor Plan Data Center Size: 53,000 SF

AlfaTech delivered turnkey design and construction management services for CenturyLink’s Singapore data center facility. This Tier 3+ data center is a 53,000- square-foot facility, which includes 32,000 square feet of raised floor space and an IT capacity of 3.6MW. The facility will offer enterprise-class co-location, managed hosting, cloud computing and network

RAYCOM DATA CENTER Daquin, Chuangzhi Island, China

Type: Data Center Size: 130,000 SF

AlfaTech was hired to provide recommendations on current data center trends and technologies for incorporation into a new data center facility development in Northern China. The Tier 3 level data center was designed to accommodate six 2- MW critical load modules plus redundancy, for a total of 12 MW critical load. The goal was for a highly energy efficient data center with an annualized PUE of 1.4 or less. The estimated total load for the facility is 16.8 MW. As a result of AlfaTech led workshops, a basis of design and schematic level design documentation was created to serve as the guidelines for the local design and development team.

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DIGITAL REALTY

Santa Clara, CA

Type: Data Center Size: 41,800 SF Data Center / 54,250 SF Total

The facility consists of two stories, 54,250 SF which houses a 41,800 SF data center white space with an outdoor electrical equipment yard on the east side of the building. The facility uses direct exchange cooling unit Liebert DSE equipment, with Liebert DSE condensing equipment located on the roof. The equipment yard comprises five 2,000 kW diesel generators, pad mounted switchgear and pad mounted transformers. The building is designed for 24” raised access floors throughout the data center suites.

VMWARE

Wenatchee, WA

Type: Data Center, Strategic Planning and Programming Size: 85,000 SF total / Central Data Center

AlfaTech supported both the initial build and multiple expansion phases for VMware’s 20K SF of Tier II Data Center space. During the initial construction, AlfaTech provided project management and technical design peer review. AlfaTech was then retained for the full design and construction management of the first expansion, adding 10K SF of Tier II data center space.

AlfaTech was also retained for full design and construction management of the second expansion, adding 25k SF of Tier III data center space.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER All locations for this client are confidential

Type: Data Center Size : Confidential

We are providing master planning for this project which consists of five single- story buildings connected by a common administrative area with penthouse level direct evaporative cooling with outdoor air. This also includes general electric rooms cooled with split DSE system.

This project was designed for a 90mph wind load and sand shield for outside air intake.

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NXTVN DATA CENTER PARK Virginia Beach, VA,

Type: Data Farm Size: 250 Acres

The firm provided global mission critical strategic planning and support for this large data center park provider. The company is also currently supporting a new proposed 22-building campus in Virginia Beach with new dedicated substations, underground fiber infrastructure, new undersea cable landing station, and data halls capable of supporting 336mW of critical load.

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Santa Clara, CA CORES ITE

Type: Data Center, Offices Size: 72,000 SF data center, 18,000 SF office

AlfaTech provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design and engineering services for this fast-track project completed in 2011. The project consists of the replacement of an existing single story concrete tilt-up building with a new 2-story building including 72,000 SF of Tier III Data Center space and 18,000 SF of building common, core, and office. The design incorporates hot and cold-aisle containment strategies and is intended to obtain LEED Gold level certification.

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LUCASF ILM DATA CENTER

Singapore

Type : Data Center Size : Central Data Center

The client required a data center to be collocated within new office space in Singapore. The data center supported a combination of several high density racks to accommodate equipment load for network, storage and lower density servers, and was segmented to support the collocation of multiple groups.

While the majority of design and construction oversight was performed by local resources, AlfaTech assisted in the development of program requirements, schematic level design and to then provide peer review.

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VANTAGE MCLAREN Santa Clara, CA

Type: Data Center, Office Size: 217,200 SF Data Center / 413,000 SF Total

This project included master planning, product development analysis, and schematic design documents of two four-story buildings including a new substation with three 50 MW transformer sections. IT was designed for a new 69 MW critical IT load data center project.

SYMANTEC DATA CENTER

Tucson, AZ

Type: Office, Data Center Size: 40,000 SF Data Center / 120,000 SF Total

AlfaTech provided project management, architectural, MEP design, civil, and structural engineering services for the design of the a new data center in an existing shell. The project included 25,000 SF of data center rack space with 4MW of IT load, infrastructure for an additional 15,000 SF future data center space, 4MW of IT load, and a 46kV electrical substation on site. This included the main equipment and components of certain systems such as HVAC for support rooms and offices, building management systems, life safety and fire alarm systems. The project included an N+1 design concept with chilled water and air handling units providing cooling under a raised floor.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER | RSC

Santa Clara, CA

Type: Data Center Size: 160,000 SF

The firm provided full project management for 160,000 SF multistory mission critical data center in Silicon Valley.

This is a fully base isolated steel and concrete structure and the project included full buildout of electrical and mechanical infrastructure. The project configuration is multiple N+2 block redundant electrical topologies with standby generators and over 16MW of critical load.

CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER All locations for this client are confidential

Type: Data Center Size : Confidential

AlfaTech provided site selection support including multiple designs for alternate sites in the Midwest area of the US, followed by overall design team project management, as well as site master planning, MEP, telecom and communications, architectural, structural, civil, fire protection, controls, wind study, LEED consulting, and life safety services for this extremely energy efficient data center project. The site included design for the on-site substation as well as innovation design adaptations to support critical core IT spaces, addressing the ongoing changes in the client’s requirements.

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A*STAR

Singapore

Type: Data Center Size: 10,000 SF

Alfa Tech VestAsia was engaged for turnkey design and project delivery of a new high-performance combined resource computing center, rejuvenation of legacy systems and critical data center relocation for the Singapore Government. In addition to this, AlfaTech designed and built 6000 SF of support office space. AlfaTech is in charge of the Facility Operation for A*Star.

VIAVIA SOLUTIONS

China, Malaysia

Type: Data Center, Mixed Use Size: 50,000 SF

Formerly known as JDS Uniphase, Viavi Solutions has engaged AlfaTech as its capital projects partner since 2011. In total, AlfaTech has helped build and redesign ~150,000 SF of data center, laboratory and support office space in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

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L INKEDIN

Singapore

Type: Data Center Size: 40,000 SF

AlfaTech was engaged for cabling infrastructure management and turnkey project delivery of Linked-In’s 40,000 SF data center in Singapore over three different phases.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT

Singapore

Type: Data Center Size: Confidential

AlfaTech provided full procurement and construction management support for the design and execution of a 6MW purpose-built data center with approximately 1000 custom cabinets. In addition to the base infrastructure, Alfa Tech also helped design and execute their intricate and advanced low voltage cabling network and rack and stack for all their gear. Post completion Alfa Tech provided technical operations support for the duration of the project’s lifecycle with fiber and cable technicians managing the efficient and service level achievement of the data center to support its intended use. Alfa Tech was also responsibility for facility operations supporting ongoing maintenance, move-add-change work for the customer and soft services for the ancillary office a workforce spaces associated. Once the data center was deemed redundant by the customer Alfa Tech was turnkey contractor for reinstatement to the satisfaction of the landlord.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER All locations for this client are confidential

Type: Data Center Size: Confidential

AlfaTech provided site selection support and overall master planning and building design and project management.

The project contained eight single story data halls connected by an administration building with penthouse level direct evaporative cooled air handled equipment, rooftop condensing units and outdoor standby diesel. This is the second campus for this client in this location and will ultimately expand to over 1,000,000 SF of data center space.

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CONF IDENTIAL CL IENT DATA CENTER | ASC Santa Clara, CA

Type: Data Center Size: 400,000 SF

The scope of work for this project included preliminary engineering design in support of the planning and other local jurisdiction approvals for a new master planned core and shell data center facility to be located on a 15 acre site in Santa Clara, CA. Subsequent phases included design and construction administration services for the full tenant improvements of the data center. The facility will have an approximate floor area of 400,000 square feet and will be a two ‐ story building with approximately 120,000 square feet of data center white space with an outdoor electrical equipment yard on the side of the building. The facility will use row mounted overhead cooling units constructed in a 2N configuration. Chillers and other support equipment will be located on the building roof. The equipment yard will house electrical infrastructure equipment and standby generators to support a Tier 4 generator with electrical service distributed at 13.8 kV with 13.8 kV UPS supporting the entire facility. The full design of the tenant improvements included design details to the extent required for Uptime certification.

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VIAVI

Pudong China

Type: Office, Data Center Size: 55,000 SF

AlfaTech was engaged to design and build VIAVI’ s new office in China. At-risk turnkey design and build. This included permitting, commissioning and construction. We provided a complete interior design, IT infrastructure, relocation and setup including mission critical servers.

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BAIDU DATA CENTER

Taiyuan, China

Provided detailed load analysis and equipment vendor bidding and review services for pilot plant data center installation to explore cooling strategies and technologies before full scale deployment to product data center spaces.

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LUMENTUM

Various Locations Worldwide

Type: Data Centers, Clean Rooms, and Manufacturing Size: 640,000 SF

For over a decade, members of our team have provided services for a variety of projects for Lumentum (formerly JDSU) in the United States and internationally totaling over 640k SF. Projects have ranged from class 100 clean rooms, manufacturing facilities, and office spaces to data centers and server rooms.

Other Locations include San Jose, Colorado, Scotland, Beijing, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, Thailand, India, and Brazil.

LUMENTUM Gurgaon, India

The project comprised of 5,600 SF of office space in the InfoTech Centre, third floor. AlfaTech having turnkey responsibility completed the tenant improvements of this facility for the purpose of a new regional sales office. The space includes offices, huddle rooms, conference rooms, Open office area, reception, lobby, pantry, storage, mechanical rooms, and IT closet with UPS back-up.

LUMENTUM Pune, India

The project includes 6,200 SF on the sixth floor of the Rainbow IT Park. AlfaTech having turnkey responsibility completed the tenant improvements of this facility for the purpose of a new regional office. The space includes offices, huddle rooms, conference rooms, Open office area, reception, lobby, pantry, storage, mechanical rooms, and IT closet with UPS back-up.

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