Re: Verizon Building Tower
Apparently, Tishman did Phase 1, and Suffolk is doing phase 2.
http://www.tishmanconstruction.com/index.php?q=node/1128
Tishman apparently did all the serious interior work which essentially created two buildings within one skin:
Verizon retains a substantial telecom presence at 185 Franklin including adding additional back-up generation and cooling on the roof top -- they needed to strengthen the roof to support the new loads
"Boston, MA, February, 2011 – Tishman Construction Corporation of Massachusetts (TCC-MA) is nearing the completion of a project that will provide Verizon Communications, Inc. with its own dedicated systems infrastructure for network communications equipment within the historic, 18-story New England Telephone & Telegraph Building at 185 Franklin Street in Boston’s financial district......Tishman Construction personnel are separating Verizon Communications’ mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems from those that serve the overall building, in order to give Verizon its own dedicated systems on floors that house its office spaces and its network communication equipment.......Another challenge is working over live telecom space. This meant that Tishman project managers had to coordinate the protection of Verizon switchgear and large telephone switchgear batteries. To accommodate these procedures, Tishman built scaffolding out of wood (instead of metal scaffolding, which could arc with the batteries) over the entire work area.....The project’s scope of work also includes the installation of two 1-megawatt generators on the roof, a 350-ton cooling tower, seven new air-handling units, and vast amounts of infrastructure to support the new systems. The roof had to be reinforced in order to support the additional weight.
Other work in the building includes:
• Interior building alterations on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors, and the 14th floor roof to build out HVAC and electrical infrastructure to provide ownership separation to isolate Verizon space from the rest of the building.
• New air-handling units on floors 1, 2, 3 and 4 and an associated ductwork distribution system, and DDC controls to serve existing and future Verizon equipment, with ventilation for battery areas.
• New fuel pumps in the basement with supply and return piping to the 14th floor generator modules.
Simultaneously, Tishman renovated more than 200,000 square feet of office and administrative space on four floors of the building, where Verizon maintains its base of operations in the Boston area."
http://www.tishmanconstruction.com/?q=print/1128
The rest of the building being renovated inside and out by Suffolk -- will become generic office -- although I wouldn't doubt that many likely client for the space might want to take advantage of the incredibly dense fiber net (and underground channels for more fiber conduits) already in place in the building
