{"id":3941,"date":"2012-02-03T18:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T04:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T01:41:01","slug":"information-technology-center-groundbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/03\/information-technology-center-groundbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"University breaks ground for information technology center"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Performing the ceremonial ground breaking are, front row from left UH<\/abbr> Regent James Lee, Governor Neil Abercrombie, former Computing Center Director Walter Yee, President M.R.C. Greenwood, Representative Calvin Say, Congressional Chief of Staff Jennifer Sabas; back row from left, UH<\/abbr> Associate Vice President Brian Minaai, Chief Information Officer David Lassner, dck pacific construction executive Eric Tessem, UH<\/abbr> Regents Eric Martinson and Carl Carlson, architect Joe Ferraro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new six-story, 74,000-square-foot Information Technology Center<\/a> on the Mānoa campus will be the first facility designed and constructed anywhere in the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System<\/a> to properly house the university’s enterprise information and communications technology systems.<\/p>\n

Governor Neil Abercrombie<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> President M.R.C. Greenwood<\/strong> and UH<\/abbr> Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner<\/strong> spoke at a ceremony held Friday at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa to celebrate the groundbreaking for the center.<\/p>\n

“This center will provide the foundation for our mission-focused efforts and move us a giant step forward in our quest to be a model 21st-century university with excellent facilities,” said Greenwood.<\/p>\n

Building features<\/h2>\n
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Artist’s rendering of the new center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Located immediately east of Bilger Addition, the Information Technology Center will provide a centralized facility for the university’s systemwide Information Technology Services<\/a> division. It will house a state-of-the-art and energy-efficient data center featuring an 8,000-square-foot machine room for enterprise servers, storage and communications.<\/p>\n

It will also be the site for the university’s first emergency situation room, which will provide space with available power and communications suitable for UH<\/abbr> administrators and emergency personnel to manage disasters and other crisis situations.<\/p>\n

“The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> learned many lessons from the 2004 flood that caused extensive damage to the Mānoa campus and threatened our main data center, which provides Internet access for all UH<\/abbr> campuses statewide and our state government offices, including Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Civil Defense. It’s those lessons and our goal to provide a quality learning and research environment for our students, faculty and staff that have inspired this building,” said Greenwood.<\/p>\n

The center will also include meeting and training rooms, the university’s information technology Help Desk, modern workspace for ITS<\/abbr> staff, facilities for faculty to develop and produce engaging digital media content for education and research and advanced teleconferencing and collaboration environments for members of the UH<\/abbr> community to work with colleagues and peers around the world.<\/p>\n

Green design<\/h2>\n
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Artist's rendering of reception area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The building will be designed to support LEED<\/abbr> certification, which is considered rare for a building with a data center. Sustainable green design strategies will include energy-efficient building orientation, daylighting strategies including horizontal light shelves, displacement ventilation to reduce energy consumption, a water catchment system, vegetated roofs and lanais to mitigate storm drainage, healthy indoor air quality, systems commissioning, conservations of resources and recycling.<\/p>\n

“By consolidating our IT<\/abbr> 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<\/abbr>,” said Lassner. “We’ve imagined a building like this for our university for many years and we’re excited to see it becoming a reality.”<\/p>\n

Building partners on the project include Ferraro Choi and Associates<\/a> as project architect, dck pacific construction as general contractor and Bowers + Kubota Consulting<\/a> as construction manager.<\/p>\n

View more photos<\/a> and watch the Information Technology Center website<\/a> for construction updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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