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NECA Member teams with GC: John Moriarty & Associates, Winchester, MA; Architect: CBT Architects, Boston, MA; Developer: HYM Investment Group, Boston, MA

Cambridge, MA – J&M Brown Company, Inc., based in Jamaica Plain, MA, is underway with comprehensive electrical construction of Northpoint Twenty/20, the new 20-story luxury high-rise apartment tower at 20 Child Street in Cambridge.  The NECA Boston contractor is handling core and shell electrical construction at the 400,000 square-foot building, which entails installation of the structure’s primary and emergency power, lighting and lighting control, fire alarm and security systems.

The project scope also includes J&M Brown’s electrical fit-out of Northpoint’s 355 residential units, fitness center, café, 9,000 square feet of office space, and five retail locations at street level.

J&M Brown is teaming with CBT Architects of Boston and general contractor John Moriarty & Associates of Winchester.  Designed to achieve LEED Silver certification, Northpoint Tweny/20 is scheduled for completion in early 2015.

Steve Feldman, Director of Spectrum IT, the low-voltage division of J & M Brown, talks about security trends happening in the industry with Electrical Contractor magazine.

Article: The Business of Security

February 27, 2014 – Boston, MA – The white hot life science market in Boston will feature a dynamic new, nine-story research facility in the heart of the Longwood Medical area by the fall of 2014, as the 11-story, 414,000 square-foot Longwood Center tower is nearing peak construction at the intersection of Longwood and Brookline Avenues.  J&M Brown Company, based in Jamaica Plain, Mass., is the project’s primary electrical contractor, providing the state-of-the-art facility’s shell and core electrical construction, including installation of power distribution, lighting and lighting control, and fire alarm systems.

Concurrently, the NECA contractor is handling electrical fit-out for the Longwood Center’s anchor tenant, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  Dana-Farber will occupy 154,000 square feet of cutting-edge laboratory space on four levels of the mixed-use life science center.  The building, designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects of Boston, will feature nine floors of lab, research, and medical office space, with retail at street level.  Two mechanical floors will accommodate laboratory requirements and the facility will have three floors of underground parking.

J&M Brown is serving on a project team headed by general contractor John Moriarty & Associates, of Winchester, MA.

The Longwood Center is a a joint venture consisting of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., National Development of Newton, Mass., Charles River Realty Investors, of Newton Lower Falls, Mass., and Clarion Partners of New York.