Project name: Telus CIDC (Calgary Internet Data Center) Project type: Special Projects Location: Calgary, Alberta  Project size: Underground data center Completion date: June 2001 Project contact: Al Miller General contractor: Tri-Build Contracting Electrical budget: $6 million Construction budget: $19.6 million Project Description: The Telus CIDC is one of the most advanced data centers in the world.  The centre provides a full suite of sophisticated Internet hosting services, integrated e-business applications and the highest standards available in security and performance for businesses across Canada. This facility is contained within the existing 130,000 sq. ft. Nova Chemicals building referred to as the “Nova Bunker”. (Canem built the Nova Bunker in the early 1980’s) The building was built to withstand a Car Bomb in the parkade with no impact to the structure. It also has exterior bullet proof glass and state of art complete with bio-metric fingerprint readers and a large CCTV system all running back to the main security room. In fact, this building was used to house the computers for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. The CIDC was designed for 100 watts per square foot for the computer rooms. It has 4 @ 4000 amp. 600 v. Utility services with a split redundant A/B buss. It has 5.5 megawatts of emergency power generation. The generators consist of 2 @ 1.6 M.W. diesel generators and a 2.3 M.W. diesel Turbine generator that existed and was refurbished. All generation is controlled by a synchronization board and with enough fuel storage to sustain a utility power failure for a week. The facility also contains a large UPS system with 1.5 KVA of capacity.