AMS 11 – Data Centre
Specialist civil contractor for execution of all Civil Works external to the AMS 11 Data Centre Campus and Structural Foundations
and Floors internal within the building
What we delivered
- The AMS 11 project was a complex project undertaken in challenging ground conditions on a compact site whereby an existing industrial structure has been redeveloped into data center. These works were undertaken adjacent to a recently completed data centre which was live during the works.
- Project specifics below: –
- Cut out existing slab and cast new foundations for superstructure
- Cast internal fire walls.
- Install new fibre ducting utilising trench boxes and fibre chambers which required sheet piled temporary works due to depth and ground conditions.
- Sheet pile cofferdam structure, drill soil anchors, dredge and cast 1,000m3 underwater concrete slab for fuel tanks for Data Centre Emergency generators fuel storage tanks
- Cast 20,000m2 floor screed on 1st and 2nd floors
Works Executed Underwater
- Blind excavation and suction dredging to formation maintaining water levels
- Careful placement of stone blinding layer
- Disassembly of anchors and installation of plates (underwater diving works)
- Pouring of a 650m3concrete plug underwater to seal the base of the excavation
- Pumping down water over a controlled period
