Castle's New Home

[FG101C]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Nice! Man, I'd LOVE to work there.

+1, I'm a multifaceted individual with a good work ethic..........blah....blah....

That place looks great, looks like a great place to work.

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Nice! Man, I'd LOVE to work there.

My thoughts exactly, but I would only be qualified to clean the toilets and make coffee for the boss. I would make the coffee before I clean the toilets of course. That is one big, clean and soon to be well organized factory. Congratulations, you all deserve it.

[George16]

It would be nice to be able to see it but this goverment computer does not allow access to photobucket. I'll be able to see them once we pull into port during this deployment. Google up USS George Washington (CVN 73) and you'll know what we're doing :):).

Anyway, congrats!!!!

Wow... awesome! :)

[magman]

Congratulations Patrick your company surely deserves this!

Is the building brand new? It looks like it.

[Pdelcast]

Originally Posted by magman

Congratulations Patrick your company surely deserves this!

Is the building brand new? It looks like it.

No the building is over 20 years old. It was originally built by King Radio. My wife (Brenda) and I both worked in the building years ago. Brenda started there when it was still King Radio, and I worked there after King was bought out by Allied Signal Aerospace. Allied Signal eventually merged with Honeywell, and then they built a new facility.

The building was then occupied by several different companies that came and went.
Sprint spent $9million upgrading and renovating the building just a couple years ago, then moved out after only 18 months.

It had everything we needed for our production (power distribution buses, 2 x 100hp air compressors and air distribution, a 2 MW whole-building UPS system and 2 MW diesel generator, complete air-handling with chilled-water AC system and air filtration, etc.)

Because there is a TON of commercial space available in KC (much of it vacated by Sprint) we were able to lease the space very cheap.

We were very lucky to find such a nice space that had everything we needed -- and find it for a good price.

[sikeston34m]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

No the building is over 20 years old. It was originally built by King Radio. My wife (Brenda) and I both worked in the building years ago. Brenda started there when it was still King Radio, and I worked there after King was bought out by Allied Signal Aerospace. Allied Signal eventually merged with Honeywell, and then they built a new facility.

The building was then occupied by several different companies that came and went.
Sprint spent $9million upgrading and renovating the building just a couple years ago, then moved out after only 18 months.

It had everything we needed for our production (power distribution buses, 2 x 100hp air compressors and air distribution, a 2 MW whole-building UPS system and 2 MW diesel generator, complete air-handling with chilled-water AC system and air filtration, etc.)

Because there is a TON of commercial space available in KC (much of it vacated by Sprint) we were able to lease the space very cheap.

We were very lucky to find such a nice space that had everything we needed -- and find it for a good price.

Congratulations Patrick!

You sound very excited about the new building and very understandably so!

You and your company deserve it.

I hope you out grow it too!

Is there an ICE HV line going in there somewhere?

[TexasSP]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

It had everything we needed for our production (power distribution buses, 2 x 100hp air compressors and air distribution, a 2 MW whole-building UPS system and 2 MW diesel generator, complete air-handling with chilled-water AC system and air filtration, etc.)

I think I am officially jealous now.

The compressors alone are worth a pretty penny. Nice find for sure.

[Bondonutz]

Impressive sight to see, good for you Pat and all of Castle's crew !

With all that polished concrete it's just beggin' for some drifting !

[snellemin]

Nice Nice Nice. That is a good size building to grow into for sure.

Very nice indeed but damn, that cubicle area with the retro 70's orange and yellow paint has got to go

[rabosi]

Congratulations and good luck. Hope you got a nice long lease if you plan on staying a while.

[hemiblas]

WOW. I design electrical distribution systems for buildings for a living and this one sounds pretty impressive. 2MW of whole building UPS backup is not cheap. Its probably sized to carry the load until the gen kicks in but thats still a lot of batteries. The UPS systems probably have bypass switches to re-route power in case of failure.
A lot of the telecom carriers also believed in multiple levels of redundancy for a lot of their systems and didnt skimp. You may even find that some or possibly all loads are backed up by multiple sources of power so in case of a failure you just reroute power within your building to a different distribution panel or switchboard. They might have even talked the utility into dual services fed from indepenant utility transformers. Your generators are probably paralleled so that if one goes down the other kicks in.
That is truly a great find.

[suicideneil]

Wow, that place looks huge- plenty of room to stockpile escs for the summer rush

Nice score on getting it so cheap & freshly rennovated, cant say no to deal like that.

[Dadx2mj]

Congrats on the new building. I gotta tell ya I was cringing a little as I had sent in a motor for warranty service and then heard you were moving during the same time frame. I thought it would take a long time to get my motor replaced but I was wrong. Even with the move going on you guys had a great turn around time on my warranty motor. Thanks for the great service during what I am sure was a very hectic time for the entire Castle staff.