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In 2011, Kohl's, a specialty department store headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., racked up an impressive $1 billion in web sales. Predicting even greater online sales growth for 2012, the retail giant recently built its fourth distribution center dedicated solely to fulfilling purchases through its website.
The approximately 950,000-sq-ft facility - which is located in DeSoto, Texas, to serve customers in Central and Midwestern states - is large enough to hold a professional basketball arena yet was completed in less than a year.
"This project had an extremely tight deadline and called for some pretty complex electrical installations," says Doug Garrett, project manager for the Dallas division of Austin, Texas-headquartered FSG Electric, the distribution center's electrical contractor. "We were awarded the contract on Feb. 17, 2012, and we started work the very next day."
Electrical installations performed by FSG Electric included the lighting control, voice and data, and fire alarm systems; three 5,000A distribution switchgear units; three 3,000A temporary generator connection cabinets; a 500kW backup diesel generator; and an 80kVA UPS for the IT room with full backup to the 500kW generator.
"The facility requires heavy power usage because it is completely climate controlled and contains a sophisticated automated...