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Turner Entertainment
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Syska Hennessy Group enjoys a valued and successful partnership with Turner
Properties, a division of Turner Broadcasting, Inc. Turner is a leader in the
highly competitive and evolving broadcasting and entertainment industry. To
maintain their market leadership, Turner must make strategic decisions that
regularly affect their need for corporate facilities. The Turner family of
broadcasting companies shares a site in Midtown Atlanta, known as the Techwood
Campus. This property is the original birth place of CNN as well as the present
home of the Turner Entertainment Group’s well-recognized brands, including
TNT, TBS, TCM, Cartoon Network, etc.
Turner Properties is responsible for maximizing the use of this valuable site
and meeting the ever-expanding needs of the business units who call Techwood
home. In order to ensure the efficient long-term utilization of the site, Turner
Properties asked Syska Hennessy Group to prepare a 20-year utilities master
plan for the 35-acre campus. Planning for growth from the existing 300,000
sq.ft. to more than 1.5 million in the future.
To be successful, the master plan had to provide flexible support for a growing
number of business units; state-of-the-art digital broadcast systems, pre-
and post-production, studios, etc. in a mission critical 7x24x365 environment.
Additionally, the build-out of the site had to accommodate for the uninterruptable
operation of the business units currently occupying the site throughout each
phase of the expansion. Syska Hennessy Group assigned a team of system and
process experts to develop a dynamic plan for this half billion dollar planned
renovation and expansion.
The highlights of the plan to accomplish the growth of the site from three
(3) to sixteen (16) buildings included:
- Highly reliable, flexible and expandable 5500 ton central utilities
plant
- Redundant 20kV electrical feeds from diverse Georgia Power grids utilizing
a dynamic Automatic Transfer Switching (ATS) to ensure uninterrupted
supply of an expected 15MW load
- Emergency power, activated within 7 seconds
and capable of a 36 hour run time, is planned for a 8.5MW future load
- UPS
loads were planned for a future total of 5MW
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