Datacenter Metro Campus Zurich, Dielsdorf
| Program | 3 datacenter with emergency power systems and cooling, 3 commercial buildings, underground car park, park<br> |
| Client | Green Data Center AG |
| Planning and realization | 2020 - 2024 |
| Project costs | N/A |
| SIA phases | 31-53 (without construction management) |
| Status | in progress<br> |
| Services | Overall management, general planning construction, architecture |
The Zurich Metro Campus is being built in Dielsdorf (ZH), consisting of three high-performance large-scale data centers and a business park with three office buildings. The data centers will accommodate 27 power supply systems and 24 cooling machines when fully expanded, which will provide a total capacity of 33MW for the server rooms with an area of 15,000 m2 of whitespace.
The building complex is located in an area with challenging subsoil conditions and a high groundwater level. To create the excavation pit, a groundwater lowering system was installed using the wellpoint method and nailwalls, frictionwalls and sheet piling were used to secure the excavation pit.
The complex building services require extensive installations that strongly affect the supporting structure.
In addition to the planning and dimensioning of the pure supporting structure, the planning and coordination of the works lines for the entire plot of land made up a significant part of the civil engineering services in this property. The coordination of works pipes and sewerage, with more than 75 km of cable protection pipes laid among other things, as well as the requirements of cantonal requirements and the municipality regarding drainage was a challenge.
The building envelope of the data centers was realized as a sandwich system with a stretch metal cladding as the outermost layer, so that the very large volumes can be integrated into the environment in a meaningful way. The materialization of the buildings reflects their technical content and enables an optimal interaction with the needs of the building technology.
Glass facades were implemented in the office buildings, which form the face of the area towards the public.
MBA planned and implemented this project as general planner for shell and core and overall General Manager across all departments in close cooperation with proven planning partners from the preliminary project to the handover of the keys.
The project organization provided for a general contractor each for the construction of the building envelope (shell+Core) and for the building technology expansion. The resulting interfaces were managed by MBA through the entire tender, the construction site organization and cost accounting.
The first construction phase – DataCenter M – was handed over to the end user on time. The other stages are currently under construction.
The team of engineers from Emch+Berger, which specialises in data centre construction and special construction tasks, carried out the planning and execution as sub-planners of MBA Projektmanagement AG. This team of engineers switched to MBA during execution due to internal restructuring at Emch+Berger. The know-how about such special structures is now directly available at MBA Projektmanagement AG.
