
110 STATE STREET, OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER,
Albany, NY
Complete design services for a new sixteen story, 450,000 s.f., Class A office building located in downtown Albany, New York housing the Office of the State Comptroller’s operations. The building included a basement loading dock, a second floor full service kitchen and cafeteria and multiple third floor mainframe type computer areas. A mechanical penthouse and basement water service, electric service and telecommunications entrance rooms were included. The HVAC systems included a variable air volume type for general areas, redundant glycol computer room cooling system, a dedicated data and electric room cooling system and smoke purge and stairwell pressurization systems. Full primary and secondary voltage electric power distribution system, including underfloor power and data outlet system and emergency power and diesel generator systems, were utilized as were complete fire alarm, access control and CCTV specialty systems. The plumbing systems included a wet-stack type arrangement with multiple pressure zoned water distribution serviced by a pressure booster pump station. The building was completely sprinklered with a wet pipe system utilizing an electric driven fire pump, except in water sensitive areas where dry pipe and gaseous agent fire suppression systems were utilized.
In addition to complete Design and construction Administration Services, RAM-TECH was also directly involved with the start-up and testing of the HVAC and fire safety system.
The Office of the State Comptroller required state-of-the-art voice and data wiring applications for this building. The building was outfitted with a high speed, high bandwidth fiber backbone, Enhanced Category 5E horizontal cabling and Category 3 riser voice cabling to accommodate today’s need and the future needs of the users.
The high speed, high bandwidth fiber backbone consisted of two independent risers per telecommunications room, with each floor containing two telecommunications rooms, 4 risers total. Each independent riser consisted of 8 multimode plenum rated fibers, 16 fibers per telecommunications room, 32 fibers per floor. This arrangement was repeated on each floor, providing the users with an abundance of bandwidth.
Similarly, each telecommunications room received a 600 pair Category 3 voice riser, 1200 pair total per floor. The voice risers were terminated at 110-style punch-down blocks.
The telecommunications rooms housed the network hubs, switches, routers, fiber breakout and patch panels, Cat 5E patch panels, 110-style punch-down blocks and all cross-connect equipment.
Horizontal cabling to the workstations consisted of two Category 5E data and one Category 5E voice cable per workstation. Each individual workstation data outlet allowed future upgrading by accommodating the 2 data, 1 voice jacks, plus one spare Category 5E jack and providing room for a two fiber optic jack.

