The Home Depot - Store Support Center

Home improvement retail giant Home Depot commissioned Heery Design to provide planning services for three million SF of corporate headquarters space on 43 acres in Atlanta. The campus consolidated existing offices scattered across the city and housed the company’s rapidly expanding business and support services. Plans for the complex included seven mid-to-high rise buildings, roadways and parking facilities.

Three of the buildings—Buildings B, C and D—were constructed in record time from 1995 to 2001. When Home Depot executive management and the marketplace experienced changes, further construction was put on hold.

Overall design of The Home Depots complex reflects the companys utilitarian purpose for the store support center. The cost-effective and energy efficient exterior building materials are an alternative to traditional corporate office complex exteriors. 

Heery also developed and executed a commissioning plan for the 40,000 SF store support data center, command center, call center and a 600,000 SF office building. All data center systems are at least N+1. The HVAC systems included a dedicated data center chiller plant backed-up with four separate levels of automatic redundancy.  The electrical system consists of two utility sources, parallel generators, double ended utility switchgear and two isolated redundant UPS systems. Each UPS system consists of three 750 KVA modules. Commissioning included testing each level of redundancy in each operating mode.

Heery developed functional tests for all systems, coordinated commissioning activities, verified submittal data and equipment installation. Heery also witnessed site and functional tests and coordinated and validated integrated tests of all building systems. Systems commissioned included: central chilled water plants; CRAC units; air handling systems; building automation system; electrical power distribution; UPS systems; generators and paralleling systems.