Verizon Paris
- Client:
- MCI Worldcom, now Verizon
- Location:
- Saint-Denis, Paris, France
- Calendar:
- completed 2002
- Value:
- undisclosed
- HH Role:
- Design & Tender Documents
- Team:
- HH Resilient Design
In 2001, MCI Worldcom, now Verizon, embarked on an ambitious programme of large data centres sited at key cities on their pan-European fibre network. Househam Henderson carried out the architectural design and inspection services for sites at Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Milan with a total floor area of some 500,000 square feet. Although housed mainly in existing buildings, the designs shared a common and modular approach to main plant, data hall size and power loadings.
The site in the Saint-Dennis area of Paris involved the fit-out of two two-storey light industrial units with main plant housed on the roof and in the car parks between the units. The scheme had a rapid development phase to enable modifications to the shell structure, which was already under construction at the start of the project.