{"id":1004070371,"date":"2013-04-10T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=116480"},"modified":"2022-12-08T23:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:10:50","slug":"compass-completes-leed-gold-datacenter-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/compass-completes-leed-gold-datacenter-in-record-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass Completes LEED Gold Datacenter in Record Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Eliza Theiss, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Standalone data center developer Compass Datacenters has announced completing its <a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/04\/compass-datacenters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-116482\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/04\/compass-datacenters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>first facility in suburban Nashville. Located 20 miles from Music City\u2019s downtown, in Franklin, Tennessee, the 21,000-square-foot data center has finished construction, as well as commissioning. The 1.2 MW standalone data center is leased to a sole tenant, expected to take control of the facility by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The Franklin facility is a record breaking one due to Compass\u2019 patent-pending Truly Modular Architecture <sup>TM <\/sup>construction and structuring methodology. The usual one or two years it takes to develop such a facility has been reduced to a much smaller six-month time frame from groundbreaking to custumer handover. The company\u2019s data centers are also geographically independent and as such can be located wherever a customer has the need of them.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of the Compass design and construction approach is its CompassPod <sup>TM<\/sup>, a patent-pending design innovation that offers 10,000 square feet of columness 36-inch raised floor space supported by 1.2 MW of electrical power with 2N power distribution and delivering a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.2 -1.5 or less at lower loads. The pods themselves are the basic building blocks with which Compass creates its facilities\u2014if the need arises, then another 10,000-square-foot pod can be added at any time. The pods are protected by, and located within, the hardened, secure and energy-efficient CompassStructure <sup>TM<\/sup>. Facilities are built to withstand Class 4 Hurricanes and have the 1.5 seismic importance factor applied by structures such as hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the 10,000-square-foot data center pod, the Franklin facility also features a 1,000-square-foot CompassSupport module comprising office space, security center, lobby, loading dock and break area to meet the needs of data center logistics and operational staff. The Tier III-certified modular facility is LEED Gold certified for energy efficiency, using such techniques as free air cooling by synchronizing rooftop air handlers.<\/p>\n<p>The Franklin facility will be taken over by communications and technology services provider and adviser Windstream Communications, a company working with four out of five Fortune 500 companies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Compass Datacenters\u2019 Facebook page<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standalone datacenter developer Compass Datacenters has announced completing its first facility in suburban Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36077,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004070371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nashville-knoxville","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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