British Petroleum Project Bright Lights Trading Floor & Data Center Support
Located in the historic Chicago Mercantile Exchange building in Chicago, IL, BP constructed a new 220,000 SF LEED Platinum Certified trading floor, office, and data support center. This project was in support of BP’s mission to establish Chicago as a strategic hub for the oil business in North America, and as such was expected to attract top industry talent to the facility. BP’s information technology department relocated its trading operations from its current suburban location in Warrenville, IL to the new location in 2010. The project consisted of an extensive renovation of 3 office floors on two separate office towers, a new 3-story open trading floor consisting of 550 workstations, and associated mechanical spaces on 3 other floors.
Systems and equipment consisted of a new Air-cooled Central Chilled Water Plant, Associated Pumping, Computer Room AC, and Air Handling Systems, along with a 30,000 SF raised floor Air Distribution Plenum supporting the data center. Electrical systems included an extensive and complex system of custom gear, distribution and UPS battery power for optimum redundancy and backup. Following a thorough and comprehensive design and construction phase commissioning process, E Cube and the project team conducted a 3-day facility-wide Integrated Systems Test, which included multiple power failure scenarios, and fire/life safety system testing. Post-occupancy Cx services including seasonal and warranty-phase services. Key services included:
- Owner’s Project Requirements and Basis of Design Review
- Design assistance review
- Commissioning documents including: Cx Spec and Plan
- Targeted Submittal Review
- Pre-functional (installation) review of equipment and systems
- Oversight and review of contractor testing and startup procedures and documentation
- Oversight of Test & Balance contract, procedures and performance
- Functional (operational) review of equipment and systems
- Integrated Systems Testing
- O&M manual coordination and review
- Owner training oversight, supervision and review
- Commissioning Report and Systems Manual
- Warranty Phase Review