Code Red Consultants

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University of Houston John M. O’Quinn Law Building

The University of Houston offers its students a leading interdisciplinary legal education program that is ranked one of the best in the country. This program has been accentuated through the construction of a new 5-story, 178,600 sf Law Center designed and led by Shepley Bulfinch. Named after the prominent Texas Trial Lawyer, the John M. O’Quinn Law building includes instructional spaces, advocacy skills labs, student areas, courtroom and event facilities, faculty and administration offices, student services, legal clinics, and a law library. In addition, the building also features a series of multi-story floor openings and stairways to enhance the communication amongst all floors in the building.

Code Red Consultants was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the University of Houston’s Fire Marshal’s Office. Code Red Consultants’ provided building, fire, and accessibility code consulting to ensure compliance with the University’s Fire and Life Safety code while meeting the design teams goals of providing a modern, student-focused environment. Most notably, Code Red Consultants’ assisted the design team in developing a unique code approach for a series of unenclosed vertical openings including several double height spaces as well as a 2- and 3-story communicating stairway.

Location

Houston, TX

Size

178,600 SF

Cost

$93 million

Completion

2022

Photography Credit

Dror Baldinger, FAIA
Architectural Photography

University of Houston John M. O’Quinn Law Building

The University of Houston offers its students a leading interdisciplinary legal education program that is ranked one of the best in the country. This program has been accentuated through the construction of a new 5-story, 178,600 sf Law Center designed and led by Shepley Bulfinch. Named after the prominent Texas Trial Lawyer, the John M. O’Quinn Law building includes instructional spaces, advocacy skills labs, student areas, courtroom and event facilities, faculty and administration offices, student services, legal clinics, and a law library. In addition, the building also features a series of multi-story floor openings and stairways to enhance the communication amongst all floors in the building.

Code Red Consultants was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the University of Houston’s Fire Marshal’s Office. Code Red Consultants’ provided building, fire, and accessibility code consulting to ensure compliance with the University’s Fire and Life Safety code while meeting the design teams goals of providing a modern, student-focused environment. Most notably, Code Red Consultants’ assisted the design team in developing a unique code approach for a series of unenclosed vertical openings including several double height spaces as well as a 2- and 3-story communicating stairway.

The Bon, Boston, MA

The Bon on Boylston Street in Boston, MA is a newly constructed residential high-rise building with ground floor retail and space for a future black box theater. The project was part of the BPDA’s Compact Living pilot program, providing residents with efficient living units and large amenity areas for socializing and living.

For the design phase of the project, Code Red Consultants served as the project’s code consultant to Gensler, to provide Fire Protection, Life Safety and Accessibility Consulting Services.  Our involvement included discussions with the City of Boston and securing state variances.

During the construction, Code Red Consultants, in collaboration with SCAPE USA and Suffolk Construction, developed a NFPA 241 Construction Fire Safety Plan, provided turnover services, and served as the smoke control special inspector.

Location

Boston, Mass.

Size

16,000 SF

Completion

2022

Rendering Credit

Gensler

The Bon, Boston, MA

The Bon on Boylston Street in Boston, MA is a newly constructed residential high-rise building with ground floor retail and space for a future black box theater. The project was part of the BPDA’s Compact Living pilot program, providing residents with efficient living units and large amenity areas for socializing and living.

For the design phase of the project, Code Red Consultants served as the project’s code consultant to Gensler, to provide Fire Protection, Life Safety and Accessibility Consulting Services.  Our involvement included discussions with the City of Boston and securing state variances.

During the construction, Code Red Consultants, in collaboration with SCAPE USA and Suffolk Construction, developed a NFPA 241 Construction Fire Safety Plan, provided turnover services, and served as the smoke control special inspector.

Sacred Heart University Martire Family Arena

The Martire Family Arena is the new premier hockey and skating arena at Sacred Heart University. The 3,600-seat facility houses both the men’s and women’s NCAA Division I hockey programs, the University’s nationally ranked figure skating team and men’s and women’s club ice hockey teams. The new arena also serves as a classroom for SHU students pursuing studies in the areas of sports communication & media, sport management, and others. Other building features include a eight rows of premium seating, youth activities on the concourse, suite and club levels for hosting events and corporate outings, a Pro Shop for Pioneer fan gear, equipment, and skate sharpening, and a 180-degree view overlooking Merritt Parkway through a state-of-the-art smart-glass wall system.

In close collaboration with JLG Architects and the SLAM Collaborative, Code Red Consultants worked as the code consultant on the project, assisting the design team in navigating complex code requirements relating to means of egress and the interconnection to the existing West Campus Building. Code Red Consultants also assisted with securing state code modifications relative to the number of plumbing fixtures and omitting fire proofing in the roof. The effort included creating a computational fluid dynamics analysis to evaluate severe case fire scenarios within the arena to determine the temperature and radiant heat flux to which the steel trusses would be exposed.

The following links highlight the new arena:

The Martire Family Arena – Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Walkthrough

Sacred Heart University College Hockey Gameday

 

Location

Fairfield, Conn.

Size

122,580 GSF

Cost

$70 million

Completion

2023

Photography Credit

JLG Architects
The SLAM Collaborative

Sacred Heart University Martire Family Arena

The Martire Family Arena is the new premier hockey and skating arena at Sacred Heart University. The 3,600-seat facility houses both the men’s and women’s NCAA Division I hockey programs, the University’s nationally ranked figure skating team and men’s and women’s club ice hockey teams. The new arena also serves as a classroom for SHU students pursuing studies in the areas of sports communication & media, sport management, and others. Other building features include a eight rows of premium seating, youth activities on the concourse, suite and club levels for hosting events and corporate outings, a Pro Shop for Pioneer fan gear, equipment, and skate sharpening, and a 180-degree view overlooking Merritt Parkway through a state-of-the-art smart-glass wall system.

In close collaboration with JLG Architects and the SLAM Collaborative, Code Red Consultants worked as the code consultant on the project, assisting the design team in navigating complex code requirements relating to means of egress and the interconnection to the existing West Campus Building. Code Red Consultants also assisted with securing state code modifications relative to the number of plumbing fixtures and omitting fire proofing in the roof. The effort included creating a computational fluid dynamics analysis to evaluate severe case fire scenarios within the arena to determine the temperature and radiant heat flux to which the steel trusses would be exposed.

The following links highlight the new arena:

The Martire Family Arena – Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Walkthrough

Sacred Heart University College Hockey Gameday

Nashua Center for the Arts

The Nashua Center for the Arts is a new performing arts center located in the heart of Main Street in Nashua, NH which previously housed Alec’s Shoe Store. The center provides a 753-seat, flexible event space. The audience chamber orchestra level has a 430-seat telescopic seating system that can be retracted to create a flat floor venue for general admissions for up to 1000 people or a banquet set up for 270 people. The center has two entrances, one on Main Street and the second on W. Pearl Street with a glass-walled concourse connecting them running along W. Pearl Street. On Main Street, the lobby is viewed through large windows at street level and an outdoor terrace located at the third floor overlooks downtown.

Code Red Consultants served in the role of fire protection, life safety, and accessibility code consultant on the project. Working closely with the ICON Architecture & OTJ Achitects, the design team was able to develop a unique code approach to achieve vertical connectivity through the building and egress strategies for the various layouts that met the functional needs of the owner and life safety goals of the code.

Location

Nashua, NH

Size

53,340 GSF

Cost

$25 million

Completion

2023

Rendering Credit

Exterior: ICON Architects
Interior: OTJ Architects

Nashua Center for the Arts

The Nashua Center for the Arts is a new performing arts center located in the heart of Main Street in Nashua, NH which previously housed Alec’s Shoe Store. The center provides a 753-seat, flexible event space. The audience chamber orchestra level has a 430-seat telescopic seating system that can be retracted to create a flat floor venue for general admissions for up to 1000 people or a banquet set up for 270 people. The center has two entrances, one on Main Street and the second on W. Pearl Street with a glass-walled concourse connecting them running along W. Pearl Street. On Main Street, the lobby is viewed through large windows at street level and an outdoor terrace located at the third floor overlooks downtown.

Code Red Consultants served in the role of fire protection, life safety, and accessibility code consultant on the project. Working closely with the ICON Architecture & OTJ Achitects, the design team was able to develop a unique code approach to achieve vertical connectivity through the building and egress strategies for the various layouts that met the functional needs of the owner and life safety goals of the code.

101 Cambridge Park Drive

101 Cambridge Park Drive is a new, 6-story, 160,000 SF lab building located in Cambridge, MA within walking distance of the Red Line stop at Alewife Station. The building houses companies that focus on labs and life science. The building also houses First Floor space for multiple retail tenants, flexible gathering spaces, indoor bike storage, and below-grade parking with EV charging stations.

Code Red Consultants worked with King Street Properties to serve as the Special Inspector for the project. Code Red was in charge of reviewing documentation of building integrated life safety systems, before developing and executing an integrated testing strategy for these systems. This involved developing system-specific Test Plans, conducting field inspections, and verifying system performance to both Code and Local AHJ requirements. Code Red Consultants also performed Third-party Firestopping Special Inspections and prepared NFPA 241, Construction Fire Safety Plans.

Code Red worked closely with the general contractor, Consigli, as well as various subcontractors across multiple disciplines to ensure that all the building smoke control and integrated life safety systems operated as expected. At the end of construction, Code Red assisted with demonstrating the performance of these systems to the City of Cambridge Building and Fire Departments.

Location

Cambridge, Mass.

Size

160,000 SF

Completion

2022

Photography Credit

King Street Properties

101 Cambridge Park Drive

101 Cambridge Park Drive is a new, 6-story, 160,000 SF lab building located in Cambridge, MA within walking distance of the Red Line stop at Alewife Station. The building houses companies that focus on labs and life science. The building also houses First Floor space for multiple retail tenants, flexible gathering spaces, indoor bike storage, and below-grade parking with EV charging stations.

Code Red Consultants worked with King Street Properties to serve as the Special Inspector for the project. Code Red was in charge of reviewing documentation of building integrated life safety systems, before developing and executing an integrated testing strategy for these systems. This involved developing system-specific Test Plans, conducting field inspections, and verifying system performance to both Code and Local AHJ requirements. Code Red Consultants also performed Third-party Firestopping Special Inspections and prepared NFPA 241, Construction Fire Safety Plans.

Code Red worked closely with the general contractor, Consigli, as well as various subcontractors across multiple disciplines to ensure that all the building smoke control and integrated life safety systems operated as expected. At the end of construction, Code Red assisted with demonstrating the performance of these systems to the City of Cambridge Building and Fire Departments.

Omni Hotel, Boston, MA

Code Red Consultants worked closely with Davis, John Moriarty Associates (JMA), and Shawmut Design & Construction (Shawmut) on the new Omni Boston Hotel at The Seaport development project in Boston, Massachusetts. The project consists of two 22 story hotel towers connected by five (5) stories of podium space which includes Ballrooms, Pre-function, and Conference space, seven (7) unique food and beverage experiences and a spa.

Code Red Consultants collaborated with ownership and the GC’s in developing and implementing a complex NFPA 241, Construction Fire Safety Plan for the project, including its coordination between the main hotel construction performed by JMA and the two-specialty restaurant fit-outs constructed by Shawmut.

Location

Boston, Mass.

Size

22 stories
1,054 rooms

Cost

$550 million

Completion

2021

Omni Hotel, Boston, MA

Code Red Consultants worked closely with Davis, John Moriarty Associates (JMA), and Shawmut Design & Construction (Shawmut) on the new Omni Boston Hotel at The Seaport development project in Boston, Massachusetts. The project consists of two 22 story hotel towers connected by five (5) stories of podium space which includes Ballrooms, Pre-function, and Conference space, seven (7) unique food and beverage experiences and a spa.

Code Red Consultants collaborated with ownership and the GC’s in developing and implementing a complex NFPA 241, Construction Fire Safety Plan for the project, including its coordination between the main hotel construction performed by JMA and the two-specialty restaurant fit-outs constructed by Shawmut.

UMass Amherst Men’s Hockey Locker Room

As an NCAA Division 1 hockey team, UMass has built a program that has made them a perennial contender in the Hockey East Conference and winners of the Frozen Four national tournament in 2021. Code Red Consultants is proud to have served as the Code Consultant for a renovation project that resulted in a new locker room designed to unite and inspire the team — and its top recruits. Code Red Consultants worked with Jones Architecture to re-imagine a 4,000 sf space within the Mullins Center to provide locker, shower, and amenity facilities for the team, with consideration for fire protection, life safety, and accessibility compliance.

Location

Amherst, Mass.

Size

4,000 SF

Cost

$1.4 million

Completion

2021

Photography Credit

William Home Photography

UMass Amherst Men’s Hockey Locker Room

As an NCAA Division 1 hockey team, UMass has built a program that has made them a perennial contender in the Hockey East Conference and winners of the Frozen Four national tournament in 2021. Code Red Consultants is proud to have served as the Code Consultant for a renovation project that resulted in a new locker room designed to unite and inspire the team — and its top recruits. Code Red Consultants worked with Jones Architecture to re-imagine a 4,000 sf space within the Mullins Center to provide locker, shower, and amenity facilities for the team, with consideration for fire protection, life safety, and accessibility compliance.

Sacred Heart University: Pioneer Village

Pioneer Village is the newest residential campus located at Sacred Heart University that is comprised of six residential halls and a dining facility. The first of the dormitories to open was Pierre Toussaint Hall in 2018, which was converted to a dormitory after being acquired from the former Jewish Home for the Elderly. Toussaint Hall houses 170 students primarily in two-bedroom/four-person pods, with a limited number of single rooms.

Elie Wiesel Hall & Pier Giorgio Frassati Hall were the next buildings constructed on-site and opened in January 2020. These dormitories provided an additional 64 apartments-style suites, housing over 240 students. Each apartment has a shared bathroom, living room and kitchen with atrium-style common areas.

More recently, Teresa of Calcutta Hall, Frances Xavier Cabrini Hall, and Thea Bowman Hall were constructed and opened in the Summer of 2021.

These buildings have a variety of housing including apartment-style and two-bedroom/four-person pods with common areas, study rooms, and lounges/kitchenettes. Thea’s Abbey is a state-of-the-art dining facility that is open seven days a week and open to everyone on campus with a large indoor seating area, outdoor seating and an outdoor grill utilized for programming in special events.

Code Red Consultants served as the code consultant on the design and construction of these halls, assisting the S/L/A/M Collaborative in navigating complicated code requirements relating not just to individual buildings, but the entire complex. In addition to working closely with the design team to establish and coordinate the code compliance strategy, Code Red Consultants also met with the Town of Fairfield’s Building and Fire Departments on multiple occasions to review the various construction phases and verify their agreement with both the design and construction of the buildings.

In September 2021, Sacred Heart University was listed as number 4 on College Magazine’s top 10 list of best college campuses on the East Coast.

Location

Fairfield, Conn.

Size

5 New Buildings
1 Existing Building

Completion

Summer 2021

Sacred Heart University: Pioneer Village

Pioneer Village is the newest residential campus located at Sacred Heart University that is comprised of six residential halls and a dining facility. The first of the dormitories to open was Pierre Toussaint Hall in 2018, which was converted to a dormitory after being acquired from the former Jewish Home for the Elderly. Toussaint Hall houses 170 students primarily in two-bedroom/four-person pods, with a limited number of single rooms.

Elie Wiesel Hall & Pier Giorgio Frassati Hall were the next buildings constructed on-site and opened in January 2020. These dormitories provided an additional 64 apartments-style suites, housing over 240 students. Each apartment has a shared bathroom, living room and kitchen with atrium-style common areas.

More recently, Teresa of Calcutta Hall, Frances Xavier Cabrini Hall, and Thea Bowman Hall were constructed and opened in the Summer of 2021.

These buildings have a variety of housing including apartment-style and two-bedroom/four-person pods with common areas, study rooms, and lounges/kitchenettes. Thea’s Abbey is a state-of-the-art dining facility that is open seven days a week and open to everyone on campus with a large indoor seating area, outdoor seating and an outdoor grill utilized for programming in special events.

Code Red Consultants served as the code consultant on the design and construction of these halls, assisting the S/L/A/M Collaborative in navigating complicated code requirements relating not just to individual buildings, but the entire complex. In addition to working closely with the design team to establish and coordinate the code compliance strategy, Code Red Consultants also met with the Town of Fairfield’s Building and Fire Departments on multiple occasions to review the various construction phases and verify their agreement with both the design and construction of the buildings.

In September 2021, Sacred Heart University was listed as number 4 on College Magazine’s top 10 list of best college campuses on the East Coast.

Loyola University’s Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning

Originally constructed on the Campus of Loyola University in 1992, Beatty Hall was transformed into The Fernandez Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning through a substantial renovation and expansion project led by Shepley Bulfinch. The newly renovated building serves as the central hub for the campus community and features active learning classrooms, creative labs and innovation spaces, career centers, interactive lounges, and a café.  In addition, the building also features a four-story atrium to enhance the communication amongst all floors in the building.

Code Red Consultants was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the City of Baltimore’s Building and Fire Departments. Code Red Consultants’ services included building, fire, and accessibility code consulting as well as performance-based design analysis of the atrium smoke control system using a computational fluid dynamics computer model.

Location

Baltimore, Maryland

Size

61,600 GSF

Cost

$40 million

Completion

Winter 2021

Photography Credit

Shepley Bulfinch

Loyola University’s Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning

Originally constructed on the Campus of Loyola University in 1992, Beatty Hall was transformed into The Fernandez Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning through a substantial renovation and expansion project led by Shepley Bulfinch. The newly renovated building serves as the central hub for the campus community and features active learning classrooms, creative labs and innovation spaces, career centers, interactive lounges, and a café.  In addition, the building also features a four-story atrium to enhance the communication amongst all floors in the building.

Code Red Consultants was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the City of Baltimore’s Building and Fire Departments. Code Red Consultants’ services included building, fire, and accessibility code consulting as well as performance-based design analysis of the atrium smoke control system using a computational fluid dynamics computer model.

Boynton Yards – 101 South Street

101 South Street in Somerville, MA is the first of three, state-of-the-art life science buildings on the Boynton Yards campus. The building is nine-stories in height, with a footprint area of approximately 35,000 square feet.  It contains four levels of below grade parking, a ground floor lobby and future retail space(s), shell and core future offices/labs on levels 2-9, and two mechanical penthouse levels. Code Red Consultants worked closely with the Architect (SGA), Developer (Leggat McCall Properties), and General Contractor (Shawmut Design and Construction) to provide a full suite of fire protection and life safety consulting services over the course of both the design and construction phases of the project.

For the design phase of the project, Code Red Consultants served as the project code consultant to SGA to provide fire protection and life safety code consulting services. Our involvement included navigating the various code requirements related to the building with an objective of meeting the project’s design intent.

During the construction phase of the project, Code Red Consultants assisted in the development of a NFPA 241 Construction Fire Safety Plan to provide the Somerville Fire Department with key life safety site and system information necessary in the event of a fire or other emergency. The document summarized the logistics associated with site access and active fire protection and life safety systems at the time of response. In collaboration with Leggat McCall, Code Red Consultants also worked to develop an owner’s master construction fire safety program for the initial shell and core occupancy of the building. Lastly, Code Red Consultants was responsible for serving as the Smoke Control Special Inspector (SCSI) for the building’s pressurized stairways. During inspection, the SCSI verified that the smoke control equipment and system complied with the requirements contained within the applicable codes. To achieve this, Code Red Consultants performed drawing reviews of shop submittals, participated in meetings with the design team and AHJ’s, conducted site visits to witness duct leakage testing and to review damper locations and installation, and piloted comprehensive integrated testing of the smoke control, fire alarm, fire protection systems, and electrical systems. The systems were accepted by the Somerville Fire Department on the first acceptance test, helping Shawmut and Leggat McCall complete the project.

Location

Somerville, Mass.

Size

35,000 SF
9 Stories

Completion

Winter 2021

Boynton Yards – 101 South Street

101 South Street in Somerville, MA is the first of three, state-of-the-art life science buildings on the Boynton Yards campus. The building is nine-stories in height, with a footprint area of approximately 35,000 square feet.  It contains four levels of below grade parking, a ground floor lobby and future retail space(s), shell and core future offices/labs on levels 2-9, and two mechanical penthouse levels. Code Red Consultants worked closely with the Architect (SGA), Developer (Leggat McCall Properties), and General Contractor (Shawmut Design and Construction) to provide a full suite of fire protection and life safety consulting services over the course of both the design and construction phases of the project.

For the design phase of the project, Code Red Consultants served as the project code consultant to SGA to provide fire protection and life safety code consulting services. Our involvement included navigating the various code requirements related to the building with an objective of meeting the project’s design intent.

During the construction phase of the project, Code Red Consultants assisted in the development of a NFPA 241 Construction Fire Safety Plan to provide the Somerville Fire Department with key life safety site and system information necessary in the event of a fire or other emergency. The document summarized the logistics associated with site access and active fire protection and life safety systems at the time of response. In collaboration with Leggat McCall, Code Red Consultants also worked to develop an owner’s master construction fire safety program for the initial shell and core occupancy of the building. Lastly, Code Red Consultants was responsible for serving as the Smoke Control Special Inspector (SCSI) for the building’s pressurized stairways. During inspection, the SCSI verified that the smoke control equipment and system complied with the requirements contained within the applicable codes. To achieve this, Code Red Consultants performed drawing reviews of shop submittals, participated in meetings with the design team and AHJ’s, conducted site visits to witness duct leakage testing and to review damper locations and installation, and piloted comprehensive integrated testing of the smoke control, fire alarm, fire protection systems, and electrical systems. The systems were accepted by the Somerville Fire Department on the first acceptance test, helping Shawmut and Leggat McCall complete the project.