Code Red Consultants
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Experience: Market: Corporate

MathWorks Lakeside Campus

MathWorks, the leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists, significantly increased its office space with the opening of its new Lakeside Campus, the company’s second campus in Natick, Mass. The new campus features 513,000 SF of office space on 31 acres, with amenities including a café, dry cleaning, barber shop, a fitness and wellness center, and a one-mile walking path. The four-story office building will house 1,000 MathWorks employees, with some moving from the company’s nearby Apple Hill corporate headquarters campus.

Code Red Consultants provided building, fire, and accessibility code consulting to the project team, and was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the Natick Building and Fire Departments. Due to the size of the building and anticipated number of employees in the facility, Code Red Consultants worked with the fire department to address concerns regarding the impact of a full building evacuation on responding fire departments. Through the use of Code Red Consultants’ life safety/egress drawings, the design team, led by architecture firm Gensler, was able to work with the building and fire departments to implement a partial evacuation strategy that ensured both the safety of building occupants and improved the site conditions for the responding fire departments in the event of a fire emergency.

Location

Natick, Mass.

Size

513,000 SF

Cost

$250 million

Completion

2018

MathWorks Lakeside Campus

MathWorks, the leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists, significantly increased its office space with the opening of its new Lakeside Campus, the company’s second campus in Natick, Mass. The new campus features 513,000 SF of office space on 31 acres, with amenities including a café, dry cleaning, barber shop, a fitness and wellness center, and a one-mile walking path. The four-story office building will house 1,000 MathWorks employees, with some moving from the company’s nearby Apple Hill corporate headquarters campus.

Code Red Consultants provided building, fire, and accessibility code consulting to the project team, and was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the Natick Building and Fire Departments. Due to the size of the building and anticipated number of employees in the facility, Code Red Consultants worked with the fire department to address concerns regarding the impact of a full building evacuation on responding fire departments. Through the use of Code Red Consultants’ life safety/egress drawings, the design team, led by architecture firm Gensler, was able to work with the building and fire departments to implement a partial evacuation strategy that ensured both the safety of building occupants and improved the site conditions for the responding fire departments in the event of a fire emergency.

Gillette World Shaving Headquarters

Gillette’s South Boston Manufacturing Center contains 26 interconnected buildings totaling 1.65 million SF located on the historic Fort Point Channel in Boston Harbor. The 40-acre multi-use campus is the headquarters for P&G’s Global Grooming Business, which includes Gillette, Venus, Braun and The Art of Shaving, including four of P&G’s billion dollar brands – Fusion, MACH3, Prestobarba/Blue and Gillette.

Code Red Consultants was retained by Gillette to provide code consulting services to develop a fire protection masterplan that addresses overall fire protection and life safety goals for the facility. The firm developed a Master 241 Program for the entire campus to address requirements pertaining to construction projects in the buildings. Other work included reviewing inspection, testing, and maintenance documentation from vendors associated with various fire protection and life safety systems to ensure compliance with Massachusetts State Building Code, NFPA, and P&G codes and standards.

Code Red Consultants worked with Gillette’s fire protection leaders to help ensure all testing forms, frequencies, and procedures are in compliance with the applicable codes. The firm’s consultants routinely provide training for Gillette’s staff on timely fire protection topics such as construction fire safety, fire protection permitting, hot work, and more.

Location

Boston, Mass.

Size

26 buildings, 1.65 million SF

Cost

N/A

Completion

Ongoing

Photography Credit

Code Red Consultants

Gillette World Shaving Headquarters

Gillette’s South Boston Manufacturing Center contains 26 interconnected buildings totaling 1.65 million SF located on the historic Fort Point Channel in Boston Harbor. The 40-acre multi-use campus is the headquarters for P&G’s Global Grooming Business, which includes Gillette, Venus, Braun and The Art of Shaving, including four of P&G’s billion dollar brands – Fusion, MACH3, Prestobarba/Blue and Gillette.

Code Red Consultants was retained by Gillette to provide code consulting services to develop a fire protection masterplan that addresses overall fire protection and life safety goals for the facility. The firm developed a Master 241 Program for the entire campus to address requirements pertaining to construction projects in the buildings. Other work included reviewing inspection, testing, and maintenance documentation from vendors associated with various fire protection and life safety systems to ensure compliance with Massachusetts State Building Code, NFPA, and P&G codes and standards.

Code Red Consultants worked with Gillette’s fire protection leaders to help ensure all testing forms, frequencies, and procedures are in compliance with the applicable codes. The firm’s consultants routinely provide training for Gillette’s staff on timely fire protection topics such as construction fire safety, fire protection permitting, hot work, and more.

The Auerbach Center at Boston Landing

Located at 40 Guest Street, The Auerbach Center at Boston Landing is the new world-class practice and training facility of the Boston Celtics. Code Red Consultants provided building and fire code consulting services for the six-story, 160,000 SF mixed-use building, which includes 5,700 SF of ground-floor retail, 190 parking spaces across one level at grade and two levels above grade, and two stories of shell space designated for offices and laboratories. The top two floors house the 70,000 SF practice facility for the Boston Celtics, featuring two NBA regulation basketball courts, a locker room, hospitality space, kitchen facilities, offices, and common areas. A 40-foot glass wall enclosing the practice courts offers prime visibility of the basketball practice facility from the adjacent Massachusetts Turnpike.

Code Red Consultants completed a performance-based analysis to remove fireproofing from steel trusses located above the Celtics practice court. The effort included creating a computational fluid dynamics analysis to evaluate severe case fire scenarios within the double height basketball court to determine the temperature and radiant heat flux to which the steel trusses would be exposed. This study was used to win approval of a state code appeal allowing the desired fireproofing to be removed.

Boston Landing is a 15-acre mixed-use development in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston that includes the new world headquarters of New Balance Athletics, Inc. and the Boston Bruins practice facility. In addition, the development includes a commuter rail station, additional office buildings, retail and restaurant space, a hotel, and a sports complex.

The project team for the Auerbach Center includes NB Development Group, Elkus Manfredi Architects, and John Moriarty & Associates General Contractors.

Location

Boston, Mass.

Size

160,000 SF

Cost

$70 million

Completion

2018

The Auerbach Center at Boston Landing

Located at 40 Guest Street, The Auerbach Center at Boston Landing is the new world-class practice and training facility of the Boston Celtics. Code Red Consultants provided building and fire code consulting services for the six-story, 160,000 SF mixed-use building, which includes 5,700 SF of ground-floor retail, 190 parking spaces across one level at grade and two levels above grade, and two stories of shell space designated for offices and laboratories. The top two floors house the 70,000 SF practice facility for the Boston Celtics, featuring two NBA regulation basketball courts, a locker room, hospitality space, kitchen facilities, offices, and common areas. A 40-foot glass wall enclosing the practice courts offers prime visibility of the basketball practice facility from the adjacent Massachusetts Turnpike.

Code Red Consultants completed a performance-based analysis to remove fireproofing from steel trusses located above the Celtics practice court. The effort included creating a computational fluid dynamics analysis to evaluate severe case fire scenarios within the double height basketball court to determine the temperature and radiant heat flux to which the steel trusses would be exposed. This study was used to win approval of a state code appeal allowing the desired fireproofing to be removed.

Boston Landing is a 15-acre mixed-use development in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston that includes the new world headquarters of New Balance Athletics, Inc. and the Boston Bruins practice facility. In addition, the development includes a commuter rail station, additional office buildings, retail and restaurant space, a hotel, and a sports complex.

The project team for the Auerbach Center includes NB Development Group, Elkus Manfredi Architects, and John Moriarty & Associates General Contractors.

Warrior Ice Arena at Boston Landing

The Warrior Ice Arena complex at 80-90 Guest Street is part of the larger 15-acre Boston Landing development constructed by New Balance. The new, 10-story mixed-use building contains 230,000 SF of Class A office and laboratory space, 12,000 SF of ground-floor retail, three levels of garage parking, and the 55,000 SF Warrior Ice Arena – the official practice facility of the Boston Bruins.

Code Red Consultants’ services for this building included a third-party design review and special inspection of the building’s smoke control systems, which included two pressurized stair enclosures, pressurized elevators, and an atrium smoke control system. Code Red Consultants worked closely with the construction team to complete inspections in a timely manner in preparation for inspections and testing to be performed by the Boston Fire Department and Inspection Services Department.

The project team includes NB Development Group, Elkus Manfredi Architects, and John Moriarty & Associates General Contractors.

Location

Boston, Mass.

Size

486,000 SF

Cost

$100 million

Completion

2017

Photography Credit

Robert Benson Photography

Warrior Ice Arena at Boston Landing

The Warrior Ice Arena complex at 80-90 Guest Street is part of the larger 15-acre Boston Landing development constructed by New Balance. The new, 10-story mixed-use building contains 230,000 SF of Class A office and laboratory space, 12,000 SF of ground-floor retail, three levels of garage parking, and the 55,000 SF Warrior Ice Arena – the official practice facility of the Boston Bruins.

Code Red Consultants’ services for this building included a third-party design review and special inspection of the building’s smoke control systems, which included two pressurized stair enclosures, pressurized elevators, and an atrium smoke control system. Code Red Consultants worked closely with the construction team to complete inspections in a timely manner in preparation for inspections and testing to be performed by the Boston Fire Department and Inspection Services Department.

The project team includes NB Development Group, Elkus Manfredi Architects, and John Moriarty & Associates General Contractors.

Blueprint Medicines Lab/Office Interior Fit-Out

Code Red Consultants served as the code consultant for Blueprint Medicines’ new 100,000 SF headquarters at 45 Sidney Street in Cambridge, Mass. Featuring a mix of lab, office, and amenity spaces, the project included renovations to portions of the existing building on each of the five floors. Code Red Consultants consulted to The Richmond Group (design/builders) to review existing conditions in the building and prepare an existing building code analysis that identified any retroactive upgrades triggered in the existing building based on the proposed scope of work. Additionally, Code Red Consultants assisted The Richmond Group and TRIA, the project architect, in developing a control area strategy in accordance with the Massachusetts State Building code based on the presence of regulated chemicals utilized in the laboratory spaces within the building.

Location

Cambridge, Mass.

Size

100,000 SF

Cost

N/A

Completion

2018

Photography Credit

Ben Gebo Photography

Blueprint Medicines Lab/Office Interior Fit-Out

Code Red Consultants served as the code consultant for Blueprint Medicines’ new 100,000 SF headquarters at 45 Sidney Street in Cambridge, Mass. Featuring a mix of lab, office, and amenity spaces, the project included renovations to portions of the existing building on each of the five floors. Code Red Consultants consulted to The Richmond Group (design/builders) to review existing conditions in the building and prepare an existing building code analysis that identified any retroactive upgrades triggered in the existing building based on the proposed scope of work. Additionally, Code Red Consultants assisted The Richmond Group and TRIA, the project architect, in developing a control area strategy in accordance with the Massachusetts State Building code based on the presence of regulated chemicals utilized in the laboratory spaces within the building.

Arsenal Linx – New R&D Lab/Office Complex

Linx is a new office and lab core/shell building in Watertown’s revitalized Arsenal area. Code Red Consultants worked with architecture firm SGA to provide fire protection and life safety code consulting services for the major renovation and construction of this two-story, two-building complex connected by a dramatic atrium lobby. Detailed consulting was provided for the coordination and design of a structurally-independent fire wall sub-dividing the building to meet the building code area limitations. Boylston Properties is the developer and landlord of Linx.

Location

Watertown, Mass.

Size

185,000 SF

Cost

$32 million core/shell

Completion

2017 for core/shell

Photography Credit

Spagnolo Gisness & Associates

Arsenal Linx – New R&D Lab/Office Complex

Linx is a new office and lab core/shell building in Watertown’s revitalized Arsenal area. Code Red Consultants worked with architecture firm SGA to provide fire protection and life safety code consulting services for the major renovation and construction of this two-story, two-building complex connected by a dramatic atrium lobby. Detailed consulting was provided for the coordination and design of a structurally-independent fire wall sub-dividing the building to meet the building code area limitations. Boylston Properties is the developer and landlord of Linx.

100 Binney Street – High-rise Lab/Office

Owned by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, 100 Binney Street in Cambridge’s bustling Kendall Square neighborhood is a 10-story, Class A lab and office building that was completed in fall 2017. Code Red Consultants served as the smoke control special inspector responsible for commissioning the building’s two stair and four elevator pressurization life safety systems. To meet strict project schedule requirements, Code Red Consultants worked through the final night of testing in order for the building to receive its Certificate of Occupancy on the following day. The timely completion of the base building paved the way for interior fit-outs of tenant spaces to begin. Fully leased, the 431,500 SF building is now home to primary tenants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Facebook as well as four venture-backed biotech startups: Foghorn Therapeutics, Sigilon Therapeutics, Tango Therapeutics, and TCR2 Therapeutics.

Elkus Manfredi Associates was the architect and John Moriarty & Associates was the project’s general contractor. Northstar Project and Real Estate Services served as the owner’s project manager.

Location

Cambridge, Mass.

Size

431,500 SF

Cost

$485 million

Completion

2017

Photography Credit

Code Red Consultants

100 Binney Street – High-rise Lab/Office

Owned by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, 100 Binney Street in Cambridge’s bustling Kendall Square neighborhood is a 10-story, Class A lab and office building that was completed in fall 2017. Code Red Consultants served as the smoke control special inspector responsible for commissioning the building’s two stair and four elevator pressurization life safety systems. To meet strict project schedule requirements, Code Red Consultants worked through the final night of testing in order for the building to receive its Certificate of Occupancy on the following day. The timely completion of the base building paved the way for interior fit-outs of tenant spaces to begin. Fully leased, the 431,500 SF building is now home to primary tenants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Facebook as well as four venture-backed biotech startups: Foghorn Therapeutics, Sigilon Therapeutics, Tango Therapeutics, and TCR2 Therapeutics.

Elkus Manfredi Associates was the architect and John Moriarty & Associates was the project’s general contractor. Northstar Project and Real Estate Services served as the owner’s project manager.