Secure Federal Operations and Records Center
A hardened operations floor, secure records vaults and fully redundant power and cooling, delivered for a federal mission that could not go dark for a single day.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Federal
- Delivery
- Design-build
- Scale
- 240,000 SF
- Completed
- 2025
A hardened operations floor, secure records vaults and redundant power and cooling for a federal mission that moved in without a single day offline.
The agency was moving a round-the-clock operation and a large archive of sensitive records into a new building. The operations floor needed redundant power, cooling and communications. The records vaults needed fire suppression and environmental control that would not harm paper or media. Every worker needed a background check, construction security plans had to be approved in advance, and the mission had to cut over without a gap in operations.
The approach.
- 01
Security in the schedule
Cleared workers, escort plans and controlled deliveries were planned before mobilization, so security never became a surprise delay.
- 02
Redundancy proven, not assumed
Generators, UPS and chillers were failed path by path in pull-the-plug tests while the floor ran under simulated load.
- 03
Vaults conditioned before records
Records vaults held their temperature and humidity setpoints for 45 days before the first box arrived.
- 04
A parallel cutover
The new operations floor ran in parallel with the old one for two weeks, and the agency moved over shift by shift.
The outcome.
“We pulled the main breaker with the floor fully loaded and watched it ride through. That is the test that lets an agency move in.”
Commissioning manager, PerryWester
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