One of Washington D.C. Area’s Largest Contractors Trusts Baltimore Technology Park to Secure Business Operations
One of Washington D.C. Area’s Largest Contractors Trusts Baltimore Technology Park to Secure Business Operations
Coakley & Williams Construction Colocates Core Business Systems at Greater Baltimore Region’s Leading Data Center
BALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Technology Park (BTP), a highly redundant data center facility that enables enterprises to achieve a scalable network presence in a secured facility, today announced that one of the leading construction/design build companies in the Mid-Atlantic, Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc., has chosen BTP as its business continuity partner. With roots in the Washington D.C. region dating back to 1926, Coakley & Williams is one of the oldest and largest contractors in the area. It is also ranked among the Top 400 Contractors and Top 100 Design/Builders in the nation by Engineering News Record.
Coakley & Williams provides general contracting and construction management services to hundreds of large public sector clients as well as institutions, private developers, real estate investment trusts and Fortune 500 companies. The company’s around-the-clock construction schedule requires employees to work remotely from client sites, which makes reliable connectivity and instant data access from any location imperative. Should Coakley & Williams’ connectivity go down, its clients and employees cannot afford to wait for traditional work hours to restore it. For the same reason, it cannot exclusively depend on local utilities to reliably power and cool its data infrastructure.
As a result, Coakley & Williams sought to entrust its core IT systems and business-critical connectivity to a local data center, even though it has built many data centers for its own clients. After a thorough review of several data center operations in Maryland and Virginia, it selected BTP due to the quality of its staff, its power and connectivity redundancies and its convenient location.
“We’ve built data centers, so we know what to look for, but we are not in the business of operating data centers,” said Patrick J. Caulfield, President, Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc. “BTP has a strong track record and vast expertise in data centers, so it didn't make sense for us to try to replicate that capability in-house when we could outsource it to experts. Moreover, security is critical to us, and BTP is much better equipped to provide 24/7 data security than we are. Using BTP means we’ll have no business interruptions, better security, and we can deploy our IT people to support our core business, rather than having them support a data center operation.”
“It is quite an honor to have a company that builds data centers select us as their provider,” said Jim Weller, president of BTP, and a 20-year veteran of the data infrastructure industry. “Businesses that cannot afford any downtime in data access, like Coakley & Williams, turn to Baltimore Technology Park.”
High demand in the Baltimore-Washington area for secure and highly reliable data center services, especially scalable power and cooling infrastructure, is why firms choose BTP. Companies with growing IT initiatives, compliance requirements and Disaster Recovery plans can implement them more efficiently by utilizing BTP. The facility also addresses the challenges of companies in need of consolidating data centers as a result of mergers, acquisitions and downsizing.
Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc.
Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc. is a privately owned firm with roots in the Washington Metropolitan region dating back to 1926. In 1961 it began providing general contracting and construction management services to building owners. This includes design/build, renovation, interior construction, architectural, engineering and preconstruction services. The company’s preconstruction services include permit research and acquisition support, budgeting and cost estimation, alternative systems evaluation, value engineering studies, constructability review and commentary, site logistics analysis, and scheduling. Coakley & Williams provides its services in the areas of office buildings, FLEX buildings, corporate interiors, residential/dormitory, hospitality, retail, health care, technology, distribution, parking structures, historical restoration, K-12, public sector, colleges/universities, and religious buildings. Our offices are located at 16 S. Summit Ave., Suite 300, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. To reach us, or to learn more, please call 301-963-5000 or visit www.coakleywilliams.com.
About Baltimore Technology Park (BTP)
BTP is a 30,000-square-foot, purpose-built facility that provides the highest level of security and uptime for businesses of all types and sizes who require reliable data center services. BTP’s corporate headquarters are located at 1401 Russell Street, Baltimore, MD 21230. For more information, send email to sales@baltimoretechnologypark.com, call 1-877-293-5615 or 410-500-4050, or visit us on the Web at www.baltimoretechnologypark.com.
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