Quest Diagnostics is the nation’s leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services. Each year the company performs personal health testing on over 100 million patients, over 250 million diagnostic laboratory tests, and more than 6.5 million gene-based tests. The company has the world’s largest private database of clinical test results to help identify best practices in healthcare services across populations of patients and to develop clinical support tools.

Following its merger with SmithKline Beecham Clinical Labs, Jacobs/Wyper was asked to provide a master integration plan for all non-lab facilities involving 600,000 SF of existing office and support space in nine facilities and 3,000 employees. Based in part on that plan, all data operations were consolidated into a new data center in West Norriton, PA. This project involved approximately 25,000 SF of raised floor area for equipment, a 2,000 SF national data command center, and another 12,000 SF for support and backup equipment.

Technology

• Dual feed diverse sonet ring main data frame.
• Equipment room with 300 tons of cooling, 4 150 VA static PDU’s, subfloor leak detection, and an FM 200 sprinkler system with a pre-action back-upsystem.
• Three 1000 kW emergency generators with enough fuel to run the facility for nine days.
• Redundant 750 kV ups modules.