Project: 8500 sq.ft. Data Center

Project Value: $ 2,144,000.00

Scope of Work: Design, engineer and provide construction administration for a new 8500 sq. ft. Data Center and ancillary facilities.
Challenge: The customer wanted maximum flexibility to wire, cable, set, and move equipment with the ultimate amount of seismic capacity within the Data Center.
Engineering: To that end, RSFT developed an understructure that the computer racks could sit on top of - actually floating above the raised floor.
Construction: A heavy metal structure was created that could hold the equipment, yet be flexible enough to move in the event of an earthquake. Along with a structural engineer, a sliding grid system was developed that would move in an x and y axis to accommodate all Moves, Adds and Changes. The raised floor was built around this grid and built to meet all seismic criteria. The customer also required a monitoring system that would allow them to view and control each installed device-so that processes could be controlled from a remote location. This Data Center had to be up and running while the actual building was also going up. Construction was completed on time and RSFT assisted with transition and move planning.

Technology

Project: 3500 sq.ft. Data Center

Project Value: $ 648,000.00

Scope of Work: Design, engineer and build three new Data Centers in Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Jose, including interior design and space planning for computer operations rooms, printer rooms, and communications rooms.
Challenge: Build a Data Center from which Internet Service Providers could "rent" space, so that each individual ISP could capitalize on standby generation, access control, central monitoring and fire suppression--without making an investment in their own facility.
Construction: The customer had made commitments to move customers into these facilities in three cities (Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Jose) within a 16 week timeframe. Each facility was in a high-rise building, which was a challenge, especially for fire suppression. RSFT built all three facilities on time and each is now 80% occupied, including one of the major Internet Search engines.

Project: Three 3500 sq.ft. Data Centers

Project Value: $ 3,210,000.00

Scope of Work: Design, engineering and construction to install a mission-critical internet co-location facility.
Challenge: To build a new Data Center in 16 weeks. In order to meet this tight time line, RSFT was given the authority to move forward without much customer contact.
Construction: RSFT had to design and build, as well as obtain approval from the city of Scotts Valley - concurrently--in order to meet this very aggressive timetable. In addition, the fire suppression system required needed to be upgraded. RSFT worked closely with the fire department and the fire Marshall to obtain approval and meet the delivery date.

Manufacturing

Project: 30,000 sq.ft. Data Center

Project Value: $12,500,000.00

Scope of Work: Data Center consulting and engineering services to 34 campus data centers and design and construction of one 30,000 sq. ft. facility with 2x redundancy.
Challenge: RSFT was contracted as a consultant to help them understand what their deficits were within their thirty-four distributed data centers across the Intel campus.
Consultation: Over an 18 month period each data center was audited and recommendations for changes and corrections were made, and a central monitoring system was put in place.
Construction: Intel decided to consolidate these data centers and requested a plan for a 30,000 sq.ft. facility that would be built in one of their existing buildings. Intel mandated 2x redundancy (for example, three generators providing one function), for each system (fire suppression, power distribution, all transmission media, etc.). This was a very complex infrastructure to protect their vital information. The customer had calculated that if their data center went down it would cost them $1 million per minute. This facility was completed and supports a fabrication plant in Santa Clara.

Project: 2,500 sq.ft. Data Center and Cold Site

Project Value: $ 670,000.00

Scope of Work: Design and construct a computer disaster recovery center which featured a 600 sq. ft. "hot site". Design and construct a 2,500 sq. ft. Data Center/Cold Site.
Challenge: The customer's "Recover-all" program required an operational data center to be constructed in a remote location that was safe from earthquake or fire damage. This Data Center would then be offered to their customers in the event that the customer had a disaster and needed to relocate to a safe facility. This facility had to be robust enough to handle any kind of hardware, software, or personnel.
Construction: RSFT built this facility with a number of offices for personnel relocation, as well as the capability to handle any kind of hardware -- and be up and running within a 24 hour period.

Design and implementation of an AT&T structured cabling system for the customer’s new consolidated headquarters ---a three building, multiple floor complex. Connect three buildings and multiple floors via fiber optic cable to create one Local Area Network for more than five hundred and seventy five (575) work stations. Include a paging network in the design and implementation of structured cabling system. Complete design and implementation of the structured cabling system in conjunction with the compressed five month master construction and relocation schedule. Design and implement a structured cabling system to support the customer’s voice and data requirements for two Colorado and one Texas office. Provide a five (5) year Performance Warranty for completed installations.

Project: 7000 sq.ft. Data Center

Project Value: $ 1,268,000.00

Scope of Work: Design, engineer, complete construction documents and build a 7,000 sq. ft. Data Center Processing Facility and ancillary facilities.
Challenge: Bring multi-function operations into one central location in the basement of the hospital.
Discovery: The project began with analyzing dependency, adjacency, personnel access and work flow requirements to develop a variety of designs that would meet the customer's needs.
Engineering: The Data Center was designed to include a Situation Room for personnel to meet in the event of a disaster; a Printer and Document Reproduction room, where a high volume of paperwork would flow including all patient records; a Mail Box Transition Area to keep the Document Room secure; a Tape Library and back-up room which would be secured by a two hour environment in the event of a fire; a Staging Area for new computers and software that allowed access from the data center, as well as vendors.
Construction: Both noise abatement and dust control were carefully addressed. RSFT worked with the hospital engineering staff to ensure the existing infrastructure did not have loss of utility to the rest of the hospital. The move of all computer equipment to the new data center was planned to occur within a 2 hour timeframe - since the computer equipment monitored patient functions as well as critical records. RSFT trained the facilities department on the new Data Center and continues to support them with moves, adds and changes as the Center evolves.

Project: 12,000 sq.ft. Data Center

Project Value: $ 1,025,000.00

Scope of Work: Design, engineer, complete construction documents and build a 12,000 sq. ft. Data Center and ancillary facilities. This included interior design and space planning for a computer operations room, CPU room, printer room, media distribution room, situation room and communications room.
Challenge: Move from an in-hospital Data Center to an off-site Data Center. An in-hospital Data Center is bound by ASHPOD, which can almost double the cost of construction due to seismic requirements. However, an off-site computer room creates media transmission issues between the Data Center and the remote hospital. This Data Center was built with redundancy of transmission media in order to ensure an uninterruptable connection with the hospital. It is extremely robust and includes a Standby Generator as well as underground fuel tanks. RSFT designed it to operate indefinitely, regardless of outside influence or events.

Project: 600 sq.ft. Data Center

Project Value: $ 225,000.00

Scope of Work: Design, engineering and construction of a 600 sq. ft. Data Center. Challenge: This very unique Data Center required that it be built with no raised floor, and with everything distributed overhead with racks-into cabinets and relay racks.
Construction: This data center needed to be able to handle any kind of equipment, in either racks or cabinets. All data communication would run overhead in a grid system. The Data Center also had to be able to run as a remote facility. RSFT created a rack and cabinet environment with a remote monitoring system.

Health Care Administration

Project: 3000 sq.ft. Data Center and 1200 Data Communications Stations

Project Value: $ 590,000.00

Scope of Work: Complete design, engineering and construction of a 3,000 sq. ft. Data Center.
Challenge: To move from a 1,000 sq. ft. computer room space into a new building. The original computer room was highly disorganized, had cables everywhere, computers stacked, and was at high risk for disaster. This was primarily due to very rapid growth and lack of planning.
Consulting: RSFT provided a planning, transition and growth model for a 3,000 sq.ft. Data Center with a wiring and management scheme that allowed for Moves, Adds, and Changes without recreating the disorganized, high-risk environment they had started with.

Government

Project: 2,800 SF Data Center

Project Value: $ 360,000.00

Scope of Work: Design and construction of a 2,800 sq. ft. Data Center.
Challenge: RSFT was tasked with building a room that would house equipment that tested micro chips to military specifications. This equipment (Trillium Units), had to be in a cleanroom environment, as the environment itself could not affect test results.
Construction: This was a fast track project that required design, construction and submissions for project approval to happen simultaneously.

As the preferred communications vendor, furnish multiple services to support information systems requirements at more than twelve administrative and industrial sites. Create an "island of automation" for more than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) six-plex work stations. Modify customer’s design to implement a structured cabling system that links a four (4) building campus with single- and multi-mode fiber optic cable, voice trunk cable, and an IBM Type I redundant Token Ring system. Design and construct cable pathways to comply with EIA/TIA specifications and support over 1 million feet of horizontal cable. Create a "quality program" to test and certify the structured cabling system so the customer could relocate more than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) work stations without failure. Produce soft copy "as-built" information that allows customer to administer and perform adds, moves, and changes cost effectively for the various information platforms. Communications services included installing electrical, conduit, fiber optic cable, IBM cabling, Category 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP), and coax cable.

Coordination of network equipment delivery and disbursement to approximately one hundred and fifty (150) branches and thirty (30) real estate loan offices throughout Arizona. Project responsibilities include the coordination of circuit installations, circuit verification, and trouble resolution with local common carrier. Installation of DSU/CSU equipment and performance testing of network in preparation of Teller POS and ATM platform cut-over. Cutover POS and ATMs to new digital network. Provide central site and remote site technicians for cut-over and certification of the Teller and ATM platforms to the new digital network.

Major Northern California Bank, Acquisition

Major Northern California Bank, ATM Network Conversion

Participate in the project to implement and complete the cut-over of more than two thousand (2,000) ATMs to the new OSPF network within a six month period. Technical implementation included the configuration and deployment of the 3Com201 Branch Boundary Router for redundancy and the installation of the Hypercom equipment for Protocol conversion. Cut-over the entire population of bank ATMs to the Open Net platform in four (4) months. The conversion of the ATMs involved programming and installing Protocol conversion equipment, cabling, and the cut-over of Boundary Routers and ATMs.

Design a structured cabling system, including recommended installation criteria, for the future implementation of the 43,500 square foot facility. Responsible to furnish all material, labor, installation, testing, and project management for project. Design and implement an AMP Netconnect System. Includes providing Category 5 patch panels for the 10-Base T connectivity, Category 5 horizontal data cabling installation, Category 3 horizontal voice cabling installation, installation of copper voice and fiber optic data backbone system, administration for station terminations, labeling, validation, and warranty.

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