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NewsBeat UH to Get $42M IT Center The University of Hawaii at Manoa held a groundbreaking ceremony on Feb. 3 for its $41.7 million Information Technology Center. Honolulu-based dck pacific construction, LLC, a dck worldwide company, is the general contractor for the six-story, 74,000-square-foot building. The building will provide a centralized facility for the university’s system-wide Information Technology Services (ITS) division. It will include a data center featuring an 8,000-squarefoot machine room for enterprise servers, storage and communications, an emergency situation room to support UH disaster response, a help desk, media development capacity, meeting and training rooms with teleconferencing capability, and a modern workspace for ITS staff. To meet LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) silver critera, the concrete structure will be clad with an aluminum-and-glass wall on its exposed facades and painted concrete where it faces an existing five-story concrete building to the west. An exterior sun-shading system and catwalk will help to control direct sunlight and solar heat gain. Outdoor lanai and landscaped roofs will be installed at the intermediate floors, and a steel-andglass canopy will shelter the building entrance and pedestrian arcade. “Information technology is critical to any organization, and dck pacific is delighted to have been selected to create a center that will help the University of Hawaii make the most of this vital resource,” says Eric Tessem, dck pacific’s senior vice president and general manager. Work also includes site demolition, clearing and earthwork, as well as all asphalt and concrete pavements, site utilities and landscaping. The project is expected to take 15 months. The architect for the project is Ferraro Choi and Associates, Ltd., and the construction manager is Bowers + Kubota Consulting. Expected completion is May 2013. “By consolidating our IT systems, which are currently scattered throughout various buildings on campus, into one facility specifically designed to support these systems in an efficient manner, we will achieve substantial gains in energy efficiency for IT,” adds David Lassner, UH vice president for information technology and chief information officer. “We’ve imagined a building like this for our university for many years and we’re excited to see it becoming a reality.” Top: The Information Technology Center at UH Manoa, being built by dck pacific, will bring the university’s IT services all under roof when completed next year. Bottom: Rendering of the lobby of the new IT center, which will serve all 10 UH campuses statewide • Lift Anywhere you need! • work indoors/outdoors, 110 volt operation, no emissions. • fits through standard single doorway. • up to 10,000# capacity & 80’ tip height. 2023 Republican St. • (808) 843-2400 MARCH 2012 | BUILDING INDUSTRY | 29

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Building Industry Magazine - March 2012

Sitework
Residential Construction
Guam
GCA Celebrates 80th Anniversary at Installation
Carpenters Name ‘Builder of the Year’
BIA Home Show Draws 20,000-plus Attendees
$12M Grant Funds New Chaminade Parking
Construction Begins on Kawailoa Wind Farm
St. Francis to Build Multifamily Center
ACECH Spotlights Best in Engineering
UH to Get $42M IT Center
Datebook
Contracts Awarded
Best Practices: Without Working 80-Hour Weeks
Spotlight on Success: Kroc Center Hawaii
Architects Corner: AIA Welcomes New Year with New Board
Concept to Completion: Safeway Beretania
Low Bids
News Makers
New Products
Cover March 2012

Building Industry Magazine - March 2012