Construction recently began for the University of Massachusetts Medical School new data center. 

The center will provide scalable, secure and redundant storage capabilities for UMMS’s current and future critical data requirements.

Tishman Construction Corp. of Massachusetts is serving as construction manager to the Worcester City Campus Corp. for the building the center and supporting infrastructure.

"This data center will be extremely energy efficient, utilizing new technologies such as flywheel-backed UPS systems and air side economizing," said Paul Hanbury, senior mechanical project manager at UMMS. "By removing all HVAC components from the data center box while providing complete system monitoring, we can essentially turn off the lights. We chose Tishman because of their significant expertise in the planning and building of mission critical facilities as well as their understanding of current best practices and ideas for more environmentally and sustainable mission critical facilities."