Sited in Cyberjaya, a city with aspirations to be known as the Silicon Valley of Malaysia, this 16MW data centre was designed to sit proudly as a beacon of technology within the Multimedia Super Corridor of Malaysia.

Sited adjacent to the heritage-listed Goldsbrough Mort & Co Woolstore warehouse in West Footscray, the Perri Melbourne Data Center was designed by Greenbox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Woolpert, as a modern interpretation of the heritage facade to the rear.

Since designing their first data center for Digital Realty in APAC in 2010, Greenbox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Woolpert, has been instrumental in developing Digital Realty’s data center building standards, brand, and design guidelines. The project team has designed data centers for Digital Realty in Melbourne, Osaka, Seoul, and Singapore, and was appointed to this project as part of the continued evolution of Digital Realty’s data center campus in Sydney.

Representing a new era in data center design, Equinix Syd 4 boldly expresses the functions contained within.

This data center was awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Silver Certification, as all materials, including recycled elements, are LEED certified.

An increasing reliance on technology in our lives has accelerated the evolution of a new type of energy-efficient and resilient data center. NEXTDC S2 represents this new class of data center. Sitting proudly within an urban environment, rather than camouflaged within an industrial estate, this Uptime Tier IV building gives back to the community by its proximity to customers and our innovative design, providing sustainable energy-efficient storage and cooling solutions for servers.

The iconic Melbourne City Baths, which first opened in 1860, provides health and fitness facilities and maintains the largest swimming pool in the Melbourne CBD. Although it is a beautiful building, it is showing its age. In response to the need to proactively manage the site, the City of Melbourne has demonstrated leadership in heritage documentation by commissioning a “digital twin” of the building.

Deteriorating pavement conditions prompted the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to select Woolpert to survey and collect mobile light detection and ranging (lidar) data for approximately 15 miles of interstate along the high-volume I-64/I-264 corridors. Woolpert combined conventional lidar technology with an innovative collection technique—the mobile mapping system (MMS)—to collect the data needed to repair and rehabilitate the busy roadways.

Murphy Geospatial, a wholly owned subsidiary of Woolpert, executed a comprehensive motorway junction survey project for the Colas Joint Venture, a leading civil engineering consortium responsible for motorway maintenance across Ireland. The survey targeted junctions 13 and 14 of the M18 motorway, focusing on delivering detailed and accurate topographical drawings of two sections of the double carriageway road and its associated infrastructure.

Originally budgeted at $962 million, the Ship Channel Bridge Program is the biggest infrastructure project Harris County has ever undertaken. It includes the replacement of a single two-lane bridge with twin four-lane north and south bridges over the Houston Ship Channel. The project crosses the Sam Houston Tollway (Beltway 8 East) from Texas State Highway 225 to Interstate Highway 10.

Challenge

At just more than one mile long, the south approach is the longest on the Ship Channel Bridge, and its scope of work is very complex. Underground utility lines, previously contaminated soil and over 40 support bents complicated design and execution.

Woolpert was the designer of record for the design-build new construction of a permanent air station that includes a hangar facility, administrative facility, associated utilities, site improvements, and airfield pavements. The facilities comply with antiterrorism/force protection standards and the Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings, designed to achieve LEED certification. Additionally, the project required a 4.1-acre wetland mitigation project that included restoring tidal flow to a lagoon by clearing a channel, bringing in drift sand for a new sand berm, and stabilizing the new berm with native plants.