Code Red Consultants
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Experience: Service: Fire Protection & Life Safety Code Consulting

Boston Medical Center Campus Expansion

Boston Medical Center’s campus redesign project consists of various renovation and addition projects to the Menino and Moakley Buildings as well as renovations to the Yawkey Building to accommodate services from the East Newton campus. Providing services directly to Boston Medical Center, Code Red Consultants prepared construction fire safety and NFPA 241 programs, performed smoke control special inspections, conducted firestopping and fire door inspections, and provided healthcare regulatory compliance consulting services.

Within the individual projects, Code Red Consultants also served as the code consultant to architect SmithGroup (formerly TRO) on the Menino project, which consists of a 75,000 SF addition to the existing building plus a substantial renovation to approximately 275,000 SF on the basement and five floors of the building. An IPD team project, Code Red Consultants developed a comprehensive code compliance approach for the project and created life safety drawings for the 20+ phases of construction to illustrate continuous compliance with the Authorities Having Jurisdiction. Code Red Consultants also served as the code consultant to Tsoi Kobus Design for the renovation of the Yawkey Building’s fifth floor, transforming it from an outpatient medical office space to an inpatient hospital floor. Serving in various capacities, Code Red Consultants maintained a weekly on-site presence for a five-year duration of the project.

Location

Boston, Mass.

Size

Various Campus Projects

Cost

$300 million

Completion

2019

Photography Credit

Dave Pires

Boston Medical Center Campus Expansion

Boston Medical Center’s campus redesign project consists of various renovation and addition projects to the Menino and Moakley Buildings as well as renovations to the Yawkey Building to accommodate services from the East Newton campus. Providing services directly to Boston Medical Center, Code Red Consultants prepared construction fire safety and NFPA 241 programs, performed smoke control special inspections, conducted firestopping and fire door inspections, and provided healthcare regulatory compliance consulting services.

Within the individual projects, Code Red Consultants also served as the code consultant to architect SmithGroup (formerly TRO) on the Menino project, which consists of a 75,000 SF addition to the existing building plus a substantial renovation to approximately 275,000 SF on the basement and five floors of the building. An IPD team project, Code Red Consultants developed a comprehensive code compliance approach for the project and created life safety drawings for the 20+ phases of construction to illustrate continuous compliance with the Authorities Having Jurisdiction. Code Red Consultants also served as the code consultant to Tsoi Kobus Design for the renovation of the Yawkey Building’s fifth floor, transforming it from an outpatient medical office space to an inpatient hospital floor. Serving in various capacities, Code Red Consultants maintained a weekly on-site presence for a five-year duration of the project.

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.

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.

Billerica Memorial High School

Designed by Perkins + Will and currently under construction by Shawmut Design and Construction, the new Billerica Memorial High School will accommodate more than 1,600 students from grades 8 through 12 as well as a 200-student pre-k program. The new $175 million high school will be one of the largest in the state, spanning upwards of 325,000 SF. Code Red Consultants served as the code consultant on the project and worked closely with the design team as well as Billerica building and fire officials throughout the design of the project.

This groundbreaking project will be one of the first to be designed and constructed under the new 9th Edition of 780 CMR, which is based on the 2015 International Building Code. In addition to the classrooms, the building also features a three-story atrium under a heavy timber roof in the commons area where Code Red Consultants provided CFD fire/smoke modeling. The performance-based design for the atrium reduced mechanical exhaust rates and lowered make-up air requirements beyond what would have been required using prescriptive code calculations. This atrium approach reduced construction costs and architectural implications on the building design. During construction, the firm will also provide third party special inspection services for the atrium smoke control system.

Location

Billerica, Mass.

Size

325,000 SF

Cost

$175 million

Completion

2019

Rendering Credit

Perkins + Will

Billerica Memorial High School

Designed by Perkins + Will and currently under construction by Shawmut Design and Construction, the new Billerica Memorial High School will accommodate more than 1,600 students from grades 8 through 12 as well as a 200-student pre-k program. The new $175 million high school will be one of the largest in the state, spanning upwards of 325,000 SF. Code Red Consultants served as the code consultant on the project and worked closely with the design team as well as Billerica building and fire officials throughout the design of the project.

This groundbreaking project will be one of the first to be designed and constructed under the new 9th Edition of 780 CMR, which is based on the 2015 International Building Code. In addition to the classrooms, the building also features a three-story atrium under a heavy timber roof in the commons area where Code Red Consultants provided CFD fire/smoke modeling. The performance-based design for the atrium reduced mechanical exhaust rates and lowered make-up air requirements beyond what would have been required using prescriptive code calculations. This atrium approach reduced construction costs and architectural implications on the building design. During construction, the firm will also provide third party special inspection services for the atrium smoke control system.

Beach House – Luxury Apartment Building

Beach House is a new luxury apartment building prominently situated on a 2.2-acre site along Revere Beach. Offering resort-style living and hotel-inspired amenities with ocean views, the stylish and modern Beach House features 234 luxury apartment residences in a five-story, 234,000 SF building, with one level of below-grade parking.

Code Red Consultants was engaged for NFPA 241 compliance consulting for the new ground-up, stick-built over podium-style residential building. The firm worked with Baystone Development, ICON Architecture, and general contractor Plumb House Inc. to develop a plan that met the requirements of NFPA 241, the expectations of the City of Revere, the construction methods of the contractor, and the schedule and design-related objectives of the developer.

Throughout the project, Code Red Consultants’ role morphed from NFPA 241 planning to construction administration-related assistance and management on an as-needed basis to ensure that the project remained on track to achieve the target occupancy date.

Location

Revere, Mass.

Size

234,000 SF

Cost

$50 million

Completion

2018

Photography Credit

Code Red Consultants

Beach House – Luxury Apartment Building

Beach House is a new luxury apartment building prominently situated on a 2.2-acre site along Revere Beach. Offering resort-style living and hotel-inspired amenities with ocean views, the stylish and modern Beach House features 234 luxury apartment residences in a five-story, 234,000 SF building, with one level of below-grade parking.

Code Red Consultants was engaged for NFPA 241 compliance consulting for the new ground-up, stick-built over podium-style residential building. The firm worked with Baystone Development, ICON Architecture, and general contractor Plumb House Inc. to develop a plan that met the requirements of NFPA 241, the expectations of the City of Revere, the construction methods of the contractor, and the schedule and design-related objectives of the developer.

Throughout the project, Code Red Consultants’ role morphed from NFPA 241 planning to construction administration-related assistance and management on an as-needed basis to ensure that the project remained on track to achieve the target occupancy date.

Baystate Medical Center

Baystate Medical Center (BMC) is a 716-bed academic medical center and a training site for the University of Massachusetts Medical School. BMC is the regional hospital for Baystate Health, a not-for-profit, integrated health care system serving more than 800,000 people throughout western New England. Baystate Health turned to Code Red Consultants to help maintain life safety compliance with the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for BMC’s main campus in Springfield, Mass.

Code Red Consultants’ services included performing on-site life safety inspections for compliance with the 2012 Edition of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code for the entire main campus as well as the D’Amour Center for Cancer Care, Baystate Orthopedic Surgery Center, and Baystate Chestnut Surgery Center. Our firm also performed a documentation review in accordance with NFPA codes and standards for all fire protection and life safety inspection, testing, and maintenance requirements, and master life safety plans were developed and updated as a result of recent renovation and fit-out projects. The services Code Red Consultants provides are part of the consistent life safety compliance approach Baystate Health has developed system-wide to reduce risk and ensure compliance is continually maintained in their facilities.

Location

Springfield, Mass.

Size

1.8 million SF

Photography Credit

Baystate Health

Baystate Medical Center

Baystate Medical Center (BMC) is a 716-bed academic medical center and a training site for the University of Massachusetts Medical School. BMC is the regional hospital for Baystate Health, a not-for-profit, integrated health care system serving more than 800,000 people throughout western New England. Baystate Health turned to Code Red Consultants to help maintain life safety compliance with the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for BMC’s main campus in Springfield, Mass.

Code Red Consultants’ services included performing on-site life safety inspections for compliance with the 2012 Edition of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code for the entire main campus as well as the D’Amour Center for Cancer Care, Baystate Orthopedic Surgery Center, and Baystate Chestnut Surgery Center. Our firm also performed a documentation review in accordance with NFPA codes and standards for all fire protection and life safety inspection, testing, and maintenance requirements, and master life safety plans were developed and updated as a result of recent renovation and fit-out projects. The services Code Red Consultants provides are part of the consistent life safety compliance approach Baystate Health has developed system-wide to reduce risk and ensure compliance is continually maintained in their facilities.

Baystate Children’s Hospital Pediatric Procedure Unit and Sadowsky Center for Children

Baystate Children’s Hospital (BCH), a 110-bed and 57-bassinette hospital located within Baystate Medical Center, is the only accredited full-service children’s hospital in western Massachusetts and provides primary and advanced medical care to babies, children, and adolescents and their families.

For BCH’s new 15,000 SF pediatric procedure and infusion suite at Baystate Medical Center, Code Red Consultants served as the code consultants to Steffian Bradley Architects during project design. Code Red Consultants was responsible for preparing the code compliance approach and life safety drawings for the project. During construction, the firm worked for Baystate Medical Center as third-party inspector to review the construction of the project for compliance with the Massachusetts State Building Code and NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code. These inspections included detailed reviews of the construction of fire-rated walls, firestopping, fire doors, and the means of egress serving the newly constructed space.

Location

Springfield, Mass.

Size

15,000 SF

Cost

N/A

Completion

2017

Photography Credit

Bruce T. Martin Photography

Baystate Children’s Hospital Pediatric Procedure Unit and Sadowsky Center for Children

Baystate Children’s Hospital (BCH), a 110-bed and 57-bassinette hospital located within Baystate Medical Center, is the only accredited full-service children’s hospital in western Massachusetts and provides primary and advanced medical care to babies, children, and adolescents and their families.

For BCH’s new 15,000 SF pediatric procedure and infusion suite at Baystate Medical Center, Code Red Consultants served as the code consultants to Steffian Bradley Architects during project design. Code Red Consultants was responsible for preparing the code compliance approach and life safety drawings for the project. During construction, the firm worked for Baystate Medical Center as third-party inspector to review the construction of the project for compliance with the Massachusetts State Building Code and NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code. These inspections included detailed reviews of the construction of fire-rated walls, firestopping, fire doors, and the means of egress serving the newly constructed space.

Assembly Row – New Mixed-Use Development

Opened in 2014, Assembly Row is a new mixed-use development on 45 waterfront acres in Somerville, Mass. Located on a previously underdeveloped site on the Mystic River, Assembly Row’s master plan was conceived and coordinated by developer Federal Realty Investment Trust, which retained Code Red Consultants to provide fire protection and life safety code consulting for the retail and restaurant interior fit-outs. The firm worked closely with the client and various retail tenants to solve code compliance challenges, providing code reports, drawing reviews, and meeting with building and local fire officials to develop alternative compliance methods. The Assembly Row neighborhood will include 972,000 SF of retail space by the time the multi-phased development is complete.

Location

Somerville, Mass.

Size

323,000 SF retail

Cost

N/A

Completion

Ongoing

Photography Credit

Federal Realty

Assembly Row – New Mixed-Use Development

Opened in 2014, Assembly Row is a new mixed-use development on 45 waterfront acres in Somerville, Mass. Located on a previously underdeveloped site on the Mystic River, Assembly Row’s master plan was conceived and coordinated by developer Federal Realty Investment Trust, which retained Code Red Consultants to provide fire protection and life safety code consulting for the retail and restaurant interior fit-outs. The firm worked closely with the client and various retail tenants to solve code compliance challenges, providing code reports, drawing reviews, and meeting with building and local fire officials to develop alternative compliance methods. The Assembly Row neighborhood will include 972,000 SF of retail space by the time the multi-phased development is complete.

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.

Amherst College Science Center

Designed to promote interaction among students in the sciences, across departments, and with the campus, the new Science Center at Amherst College creates an open and accessible learning environment for the entire campus community. The program is organized into five building elements: two high energy laboratory wings tucked into the hillside along the east edge of the site, and three pavilions of low intensity program set in the landscape to the west, towards campus.

The lab wings and pavilions open to a glass-enclosed commons that serves as a gathering space and point of connection for the community. A new campus “living room” is the social centerpiece, which is balanced by a science library and a café. A more intimate sunken garden provides respite for quiet study and introspection. The Amherst College New Science Center is a state-of-the-art teaching and research facility containing the departments of biology, biochemistry and biophysics, chemistry, computer science, physics and astronomy, neuroscience, and psychology.

Serving as the project’s code consultant, Code Red Consultants was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the Town of Amherst’s Building and Fire Departments. Working with architect Payette Associates, Code Red Consultants’ services included building, fire, accessibility and hazardous materials code consulting as well as performance-based design analysis of the atrium smoke control system using a computational fluid dynamics computer model.

Location

Amherst, Mass.

Size

255,000 SF

Cost

$250 million

Completion

2018

Photography Credit

Chuck Choi

Amherst College Science Center

Designed to promote interaction among students in the sciences, across departments, and with the campus, the new Science Center at Amherst College creates an open and accessible learning environment for the entire campus community. The program is organized into five building elements: two high energy laboratory wings tucked into the hillside along the east edge of the site, and three pavilions of low intensity program set in the landscape to the west, towards campus.

The lab wings and pavilions open to a glass-enclosed commons that serves as a gathering space and point of connection for the community. A new campus “living room” is the social centerpiece, which is balanced by a science library and a café. A more intimate sunken garden provides respite for quiet study and introspection. The Amherst College New Science Center is a state-of-the-art teaching and research facility containing the departments of biology, biochemistry and biophysics, chemistry, computer science, physics and astronomy, neuroscience, and psychology.

Serving as the project’s code consultant, Code Red Consultants was responsible for developing and presenting the building’s code compliance approach to the Town of Amherst’s Building and Fire Departments. Working with architect Payette Associates, Code Red Consultants’ services included building, fire, accessibility and hazardous materials code consulting as well as performance-based design analysis of the atrium smoke control system using a computational fluid dynamics computer model.