Wachovia Securities
375 Park Avenue
New York, NY
New York Trading Facility

Wachovia Securities wanted to relocate its CIB Trading Operation from the Financial District to Park Avenue and increase the size of the trading operation to accommodate 700 trading positions. The overall occupancy incorporates 175,000 rsf. The proposed facility required the resiliency afforded by a redundant building-in-a-building infrastructure. Complicating matters was the Landmark status of 375 Park Avenue (AKA the Seagram’s Building). While infrastructure components could be installed on the roof, equipment had to be set back from the perimeter of the building so as to be not visible from the street.

Electrical Systems
Two 2.8 MW standby generators were installed in a 2N redundant configuration. One generator in a walk-in housing, the housing containing paralleling switchgear, and a load bank were placed on the roof. The second generator was mounted in a mechanical level below the roof, also in a walk-in housing. The generators support the entire facility, including the standalone air conditioning system.

Base building service switchgear was tapped at four locations to provide power to the critical infrastructure. Vertical distribution of normal power, generator power and UPS power was accomplished through the installation of MI cable in the decommissioned fire tower court.

Two 2N isolated redundant UPS systems (four modules at 750 kVA each) were provided to support trading and the critical infrastructure.
Desktop equipment on the trading floors was limited to flat screen monitors. Clear cube blade technology was utilized to backrack all trader P.C.’s into super-IDF’s. Each trading position is supported by four blade P.C.’s.

Mechanical Systems
Rooftop mounted air cooled chillers (three modules at 235-tons each) provide chilled water for all comfort cooling, supplemental cooling and mission critical (Data Center, super-IDF and IDF cooling). Chilled water air handlers are capable of providing supplemental cooling when base building systems are operational, after-hours cooling when building systems are shutdown and total environmental control in the event of a power outage.