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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2009 Contact: Linda Hudwalker Bowman, Public Relations Coordinator, (319) 290-7865 or linda@visionmedia-services.com Kate Miller, Business Development Director, TEAM Companies, (319) 266-1700 ext. 1234 or Kate.Miller@teamnet.net TEAM COMPANIES “GO GREEN” AS CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON WAUKEE DATA CENTER WAUKEE – Environmentally friendly construction is underway on a $15 million TEAM Companies data center where Iowa Health System will occupy 3,500 square feet of space for computerized records storage. Site excavation and placement of concrete storm sewer piping began Apr. 14 with the contractor using recycled crushed concrete for pipe bedding material. For long-term energy savings, TEAM will use motion-activated light switches. Data room lighting will be controlled by individual rows of cabinets, rather than having an entire room lit at once. TEAM has also selected carpet made from recycled material, along with counters and desks made from crushed sunflower seeds; the furniture’s metal frames are made from recycled steel. “This makes sense to us because our company has been green from the beginning,” explains Mark Kittrell, TEAM vice president of business development, “We’re consistently working to test and perfect our modular design. It is benchmarked against the best in the industry for energy efficiency, security and overall design.” TEAM data centers are each designed from the ground up to minimize environmental effects on the surrounding land. Each is built to the technically rigorous LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification specifications developed by the U. S. Green Building Council. The construction timeline calls for the concrete foundation to be poured the week of May 4, weather permitting, followed by electrical work beginning in mid-May. Anticipated completion date is Nov. 1, just less than a year after ground was broken. The Waukee location is on Alice’s Road north of Hickman Road. Iowa Health System’s records will occupy approximately half of this first phase of the state-of-the-art data center, with the remaining space available for use by other businesses. ### About TEAM Companies: TEAM Technologies started as a data center company in 2004. It also operates data centers in Cedar Falls, and in Fitchburg, Wisc., a suburb of Madison. TEAM recently made the Inc. 500 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. TEAM is ranked 212th on that list overall and 21st in the category of Information Technology companies. About LEED®: LEED is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
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