The rack distribution boards were bolted to the wall earlier today - there's 8 of them in total (7 in this picture). These will feed the power to the customer racks. The cabling out to the racks has also started and is progressing very well.



More flooring went in today, with the remainder expected to be complete tomorrow.

The diverse PIPE Networks fibre was hauled into the back of the building today ready for the Tyco fibre racks to be delivered to site tomorrow.

There's a strong chance that the first of our customer racks will arrive on-site tomorrow also - although this is dependent in part on some external building works being undertaken by the landlord.

More air conditioning pipework was installed (there's a lot of work involved in plumbing these, and we had some unexpected delays that slowed work down a bit).

More air conditioning pipework today, with the run up to the roof well underway, and the cross floor runs also nearing completion. Once done, they'll be charged with nitrogen to ensure they can hold the pressure before being filled with R22 refrigerant.



A little more cable tray went down today, and the assembly of the battery jumper cables started.

We expect the floor will be substantially completed this week, as will the underfloor power distribution. The first racks should also be turning up this week.

With such recent progress here at DC3, we are confident we will meet our 60 day build target!

Invitations went out today to invite PIPE supporters to our official opening event on June 20th, 2007. Now while that's 6 days after the 60 day build will conclude, we are unable to host the event an earlier due to the building's construction of the main entrance to the ground floor tenancy (where DC3 is located).

If you are interested in coming along to the event, please email amanda.banks@staff.pipenetworks.com to request an invitation with all the details.

And some more good news... after a contractor mistakenly disconnected power to one of our webcams, we now have that back on-line and snapping away.

We didn't get any particularly exciting photos today, but you can see from the webcam shot that the flooring has been extended slightly. the guys stopped where they did so that the air conditioning guys had open access to install their pipework, and so the sparkies can get the rest of their under-floor tray work sorted.



The rack distribution switchboards turned up today - yes, more orange switchboards (another 8 in fact).

The sparkies spent more time lugging cables and connecting things up.

The fire suppression guys were in checking out the job - they should be making a start on the pipework on the weekend.

We were starting to run out of things to show you on the blog - there's a lot of work going on, but nothing that's particularly visible is happening (more visible things should start happening tomorrow). The sparkies are lugging and terminating large power cables, the floor section that's already done is having it's cut tiles put in place, the A/C units are positioned on their stands, the fibre guys have had a look at installing their fibre termination racks, and various other significant, but not hugely visible things have been happening.

...but, we took a stroll up to the roof to see how the air conditioning work up there was going. Pictured are the stage 1 outdoor units (the units for the UPS room are just to the left of these, out of the shot).

The pipework on the roof is well underway, and it's extended most of the way down to the ceiling slab of our tenancy.