dck pacific construction to Build $41.7 Million UH Information Technology Center

Honolulu-based dck pacific construction, LLC, a dck worldwide company, has been awarded a $41.7 million contract to build an Information Technology Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Construction has begun on the six-story, 74,000-square-foot building.

The building will provide a centralized facility for the university’s system-wide Information Technology Services (ITS) division. It will include a data center featuring an 8,000-square-foot machine room for enterprise servers, storage and communications, an emergency situation room to support UH disaster response, a Help Desk, media development capacity, meeting and training rooms with teleconferencing capability, and a modern workspace for ITS staff.

“Information technology is critical to any organization, and dck pacific is delighted to have been selected to create a center that will help the University of Hawaii make the most of this vital resource,” said Eric Tessem, dck pacific’s senior vice president and general manager.

LEED Silver certification will be sought for this concrete structure, which will be clad with an aluminum-and-glass wall on its exposed facades and painted concrete where it faces an existing five-story concrete building to the west. An exterior sun-shading system and catwalk will help to control direct sunlight and solar heat gain. Outdoor lanais and landscaped roofs will be installed at the intermediate floors, and a steel-and-glass canopy will shelter the building entrance and pedestrian arcade.

As general contractor, dck pacific’s work also includes site demolition, clearing and earthwork, as well as all asphalt and concrete pavements, site utilities and landscaping. The project is expected to take 15 months. The architect for the project is Ferraro Choi and Associates, Ltd., and the construction manager is Bowers + Kubota Consulting.

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dck pacific construction, a dck worldwide company, is one of Hawaii’s largest full-service general contractors, serving the Islands since 1939. The company’s award-winning portfolio features many of the most prominent retail, hospitality, health care and military projects in the Pacific Rim. Landmark Hawaii projects include The Grand Waikikian at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Pacific Command Headquarters at Camp Smith and First Hawaiian Center in Downtown Honolulu.

dck pacific construction’s parent company is dck worldwide, LLC, a global construction company specializing in developing, managing and building highly complex projects. As construction leaders for the last 88 years, dck worldwide provides design-build, program management, construction management and general construction services to corporations, developers and government entities. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dck worldwide operates in North America, Guam, the Pacific Rim, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

For more information about dck, please visit www.dckww.com.