TRO Jung Brannen, a local architecture, engineering, interior design and master planning firm, has revealed its design for the state’s new 115,000-square-foot data center in Springfield.

Tier 3, N + 1 Springfield Data Center will be built on the site of the former Technical High School in Springfield. The project is expected to create more than 200 construction jobs and 35 permanent jobs. Officials expect to break ground in the spring.

The facility will assist more than 170 agencies and public authorities and will operate on a constant basis servicing mission critical applica¬tions. It will permit high-speed site-to-site backup and recovery systems for long-term storage and operations, and become the primary information tech¬nology disaster recovery site for the Commonwealth.

The Springfield Data Center is targeted to achieve LEED Gold certification. The data center will be located in Springfield’s Quadrangle Mattoon Historic District, adjacent to the new federal courthouse.

"We are proud of our collaboration with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to create the State’s first green data center which also preserves an historic feature of Springfield." said Neil Middleton, principal at TRO Jung|Brannen.

Team members include Cosentini Assoc. as the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineer; D.G. Jones as the cost estimator; Lim Consultants as the structural engineer; Nitsch Engineering as the civil engineer; Preservation Technology as the historic preservation consultant; Epsilon Assoc. as the enabling consultant; and Strategic Building Consultants, as the commissioning agent. Skanska is the general contractor.