50 Post Office Square (185 Franklin Street)
Size: 400,000 sq. ft.
GC: Suffolk Construction
Electrical Crew: 40 at peak
Scope: Comprehensive electrical renovation of historic, 18-story high-rise. This massive electrical separation project, included revising the building’s power distribution system and paring it down to a base building system for tenant use. Installation of new power distribution system, emergency power, lighting control system, upgrades to fire alarm system. 12 floor electrical fit-out for primary tenant, Brown Brothers Harriman.
Highlights
- Installation of 4 electric vaults, working in tandem with NSTAR
- All new power distribution to electrical motors, new life safety generator, and emergency distribution system
- Demolition of 12 floors, plus lobby, followed by 400,000 sq. ft. build-out of state-of-the-art office space for primary tenant, Brown Brothers Harriman
- Electrical installations in renovated lobby
- Updating building’s entire electrical and fire alarm systems, bringing them up to code
- Upgrading fire alarm system to state-of-the-art
- Installation of new lighting and lighting control system
- Parking garage lighting installations
- Timeline: 2 years, including 6 months electrical separation off peak of cooling season
