Builders and painters were relaxing today with a public holiday for Labour Day, and our Data Centre doors stayed closed.

So for an Offsite Update:

The plans for the cable tray installation are almost finalised and work on this will commence next Wednesday.

The fire suppression design is underway.

The main switchboard has been tested and is ready for delivery next week.

The six computer room air conditioners will be dispatched tomorrow and will be expected onsite late next week.

You can't tell too much by the photo but here are our builders finishing the final preparation for painting. The walls will set over the long weekend, and painting will commence on Tuesday.

Excuse the photos below, DC3 was today a dust storm. The builders continued to set the walls, plastering over the joints and corners, then sanding back the walls in preparation for a second base coat.


Looking through into the foyer area


Looking down the Western internal wall of DC3

The wall sheeting was completed first thing this morning.

Then plasterers came along to start prepping areas of the walls and ceilings.

Plasters moved out to make way for painters this afternoon, and we now have a data centre with walls and a seal coat.

Unfortunatley no pics today as someone forgot to put energiser batteries into the camera - can't wait to have the web cam up and running.

Now it's starting to look a bit more like a Data Centre. The builders had a busy day getting the sheeting about 80% complete. Our UPS and Switch Board room is completely closed in, and the entry foyer is boxed and awaiting the return of the builders tomorrow morning. We expect all sheeting to be completed tomorrow so that walls and ceiling can be prepped for painting.

Our web cam is clicking away, we’re just waiting on the DSL so that we can install it for real-time Big Brother cam action from DC3.