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PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS
The ownership group of the Bryant Building, 1102 Grand LLC, with the help of the current tenants, has completed the architectural, engineering and implementation plans to develop the Bryant Building to be a complete carrier hotel facility with the ability to service the needs of any size telecommunications company. Our plans include the following improvements:
Primary Power:
The Bryant Building has the unique position of being located on two separate KCP&L power grids. What this means is that the Bryant Building primary power is supplied from two separate KCP&L and diverse power grids and if one of the KCP&L power grids fails the other power grid will automatically start supplying power to the building. The Bryant Building is only one of a few buildings in the downtown KC area to be configured on two separate power grids.
The current primary power system servicing the building will be replaced through the combined efforts of KCP&L and the Bryant Building. The new primary power system, configured and supplied by KCP&L, will consist of two separate 4000 amp 480 volt 3 phase system combining for a total of 8000 amps of 480 volt 3 phase power. The power will be distributed throughout the building by 2 bus risers that will run from the basement of the Bryant Building up through a new shaft to be built from abandoned elevator shaft to the 25 th floor of the building. Connecting to the power bus will simply be a matter of connecting to the riser bus through a bus plug and then either using the power directly for 480V 3 phase equipment or transforming down the power to 208/120 panels. Since the bus runs the entire length of the building, existing and future tenants will be able to access and locate the power with minimal expense and configuration.
Backup Power:
The Bryant Building's plans includes the installation of the 2000KVA backup generator. This generator will be used two fold. First the Bryant Building will use a portion of the capacity of the generator to provide backup power services to critical systems such as HVAC cooling and pump systems, so that in the event of a power outage, cooling systems vital to the operation of telecommunication equipment will remain functioning.
The remaining capacity will be available to tenant spaces. A third bus riser will be installed from the basement of the building to the 25 th floor. Those who desire generator services will simply connect to the bus riser through a bus plug. An automatic transfer switch will be installed to energize the bus riser in the event of a primary power outage. There will be no need for each tenant to provide a transfer switch as it will simply be a matter of which bus is energized at any given time.
Uninterruptible Power:
The Bryant building has tentative plans for Uninterruptible Power services on selected floors in support of small to medium size data suite spaces and co-location areas.
HVAC Upgrades
The Bryant Building currently has a central HVAC system consisting of 2 very old towers that are in various stages of failure. The cooling tower capacity of the existing system is about 400 Tons. Of the 400 tons available about 100 tons of cooling support the common areas, retail spaces and professional office spaces. The remaining capacity about 300 tons are used to cool existing telecommunication tenants in the building.
The existing cooling towers will be replaced by two new Evapco cooling towers with a combined capacity of 1100 tons of cooling. This will be supplemented by a new cooling riser loop system, 3 new pumps, and a micro filtering system to keep the cooling towers running at peak performance. The rider loop will have multiple take off valves at each floor so that the cooling capacity can be dispersed to any location in the Bryant Building.
The cooling towers and pumps will be connected to the Bryant Building primary and back power systems to support the critical nature of cooling the telecommunications equipment.
New Building Controls System:
Monitoring Tenant resources
The building upgrade project will include a new Honeywell building control system. The system will support many building functions and is designed to be expandable and flexible to accommodate many different building systems and controls.
The system will be used to monitor and report resource usage such as electricity and BTU utilization through EMON/DMON electric meter and inline BTU meters. The system will allow the building administrator to accurately bill back for resources used and will allow tenant operation technicians to view power and BTU utilization and consumption in real time and report over time.
The system will also be utilized to manage, monitor and control the building cooling towers and pumps, and to alarm maintenance staff if the are any problems with these critical systems. The same system will be used to monitor critical indicators for the backup generator system installed in the Bryant.
LonWorks Equipment Monitoring Network
The building controls system expansion will create a building wide controls network, using LON open system equipment protocol, that can will allows tenants to connect, monitor, control and receive alarms on equipment in their spaces. The building controls system is an open protocol system that will interface directly with equipment designed for LON protocol or will work through controller boxes with other legacy equipment. The controls system software is web based and can be developed so that each tenant can control and monitor their equipment over the internet through web-browser based applications.
Bryant Building Meet-Me-Room
The Bryant Building Meet-Me-Room (MMR) was developed as a building service where tenants can cross-connect with other copper and fiber providers. The room is design as a carrier-neutral facility.
The room is under the control of the building and is provided as a building service under the guidance of a committee of MMR users who will govern the practices and policies of the MMR.
The MMR was strategically placed on the 6 th floor so that from any location in the building both fiber and copper connections could be made without exceeding the limits of the transport medium. It is also strategically placed in that it abuts an abandon air shaft that provides adequate chase space to pull fiber and copper from any floor to the MMR with minimal effort. The chase space runs from the 2nd floor to the 26th floor.
The MMR is currently in operation with 14 participant currently in the room. The MMR is adjacent to the KCNAP and the KCNAP collocation facility.
Fiber Vault System
The Bryant Building is developing a diverse multi-route fiber vault system. The vaults are being developed to provide two exclusive points of entry into the building, one on the north side of the building (11th street) and the other on the east side of the building (Grand Ave).
The fiber vault project allows the Bryant Building to provide a controlled and secure location for companies that want to bring fiber into the building. The fiber vaults will speed the time to production and reduce the cost of installation for companies that want to bring new fiber into the Bryant Building.
Building Riser Support System
In conjuction with and in support of the many renovations to the Bryant Building a new riser support system is being developed. This is made possible by abandoning two of the six existing elevators in the building. The remaining 3 elevators have been replaced with new equipment and the last elevator, a freight elevator, remains unchanged.
The riser support system will support the new cooling loop risers, the 3 electrical bus risers, electric distribution equipment and will provide adequate space for conduit in support of telecommunication cable and infrastructure to anywhere in the building.
The riser support system is an area of about 12 ft wide by 20 ft long and the shaft will run from the basement level up to the 24 th floor. There will be a grate or docking system on every other floor. This riser support system will provide easy and low cost access to contractors for providing access to the cooling loop and electrical distribution system. It will also provide for an easy route for copper and fiber telecommunications infrstructure.
Building Conduit System
In conjunction with the building riser support system, the Bryant Building will install a building conduit system to provide ready to use conduit for telecommunications infrastructure with access from the fiber faults to the Meet-Me-Room on the 6 th floor or other locations in the building.
This infrastructure again is being developed to increase the speed to production for potential telecommunication companies and to allow for a managed solution for the building.
Video Surveillance Network
The Bryant Building has developed a comprehensive video surveillance network that will allow building management and tenants to view and monitor critical areas of the building. These area include but are not limited to the exterior of the building, access doors, lobby areas, critical access areas.
This service will be expanded to allow tenants in the building to place cameras in their tenant spaces and monitor and record as necessary. The cameras and system play back can be controlled and monitored with web-based software over the internet.
Proximity Card Access Control
The Bryant Building is implementing a proximity card access system to control critical access areas of the building including the elevators, stairwells, building entry doors, and critical access points in the building. The system in conjunction with the surveillance system will be able to record and monitor the movements of people in the building. It will also limit access based on individuals and time schedules to only those individuals that have access to those areas.
Again this system can and will be expanded to allow the tenants to integrate and implement proximity access to their spaces. The system will allow the tenants to issue and revoke assess to doors under their control. It will work in conjunction with video systems to record door entry and access. Tenants will be able to monitor, issue and control access over the internet using web-based software and will have complete control of only the doors under their control. The system logs the movements of people through the entire system to keep a complete instance and video record of access.
On-Demand Custom Data Suites
The Bryant Buildings vision for the sum of the various improvements is to support the existing tenants that we have and to attract new companies to the building. To make it is as easy as possible for prospective tenants to locate a POP in the Bryant building we have developed the concept of an on-demand data suite. A data suite is a room that varies in size from 80 sq/ft to 350 sq/ft. The room is striped to the shell and redeveloped with access to as much power and as much cooling as is required by the prospective tenant.
The electric is configured so that primary, backup and UPS power is all readily available to any configuration in the suite. Again it is a matter of connecting to the bus risers from bus plugs and then transforming the power down in to panels for usable 208/120 power.
The cooling is provided by a heat pump connected to the cooling loop and can be sized and installed to the estimated cooling demand. Heat pumps come in all sizes ranging from 1 ton to 30 tons generally in 1 or ½ ton increments. The heat pump is implemented so that the tenant can monitor and control the use of the heat pump equipment through the building LONworks equipment monitoring system that can be remotely access with a web-based software.
Access to the room will be provided by the proximity card system that again is controllable by the tenant with web-based software. This can be used in conjunction with optional video surveillance to monitor the room.
The tenant has a an array of bandwidth providers available in the building including access to the KCNAP. Purchasing bandwidth from existing providers is as simple as getting the desired medium to the MMR and then making cross connections in the MMR.
There are also a multitude of third-party service providers in the building to manage and monitor unmanned data suites.
This give telecommunications companies a very quick time to production with a solid set of service readily available and an array of bandwidth providers.
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