Project Brief
Commercial, Data Centres, High Rise, Industrial
Structural Engineers: Griffith Engineers Australia
Area
m2
client
End User
Builder
Contractor
Architect
Consultant
Complete
2015
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NextDC P1 – Data Centre Malga
Client:
FDC Construction & Fitout
Architect:
GreenBox
Location:
Malaga WA, Australia
Value:
A$20 million
Completion:
2014
Our team was commisioned to provide engineering design for the construction of the NextDC – P1 DataCentre in Malga, Perth. Three storey 9,600m2 building designed for 14.4kPa loadings. This is Perth’s first UTI Tier III certified facility.
NextDC’s data centre at Malaga just 13km from Perth’s CBD. NextDC – P1 is a three storey structure of 9,600m2 in total.
The building boasts:
- Raised floors in data halls and service corridors to facilitate cable runs.
- 3,000m2 of technical space
- Two main data halls of 1,200m2 and 1,400m2.
- Office and common areas of 2,800m2.
The design of this innovative structure presented engineering challenges similar to those of a hospital.
Griffiths Engineers has designed numerous Data Centres, including NextDC – S1, Nexus Data Centre, Fujitsu Data Centre, Fujitsu Data Centre Expansion,
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