Envoy Hotel
Boston – Maiuri Electrical Corporation, based in North Andover, has completed comprehensive electrical construction of the new Envoy Hotel, at 70 Sleeper Street in the Seaport District.
Overlooking Fort Point Channel and Rowes Wharf, and with sweeping views of the Boston skyline, the six-story, 88,000sf, 136-room Envoy Hotel, complete with its rooftop Lookout Bar and function area, opened in May.
Mauiri teamed up with GC Lee Kennedy Company, Inc., Quincy; architect ADD Inc., Boston; EE R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, Boston; and owner Norwich Partners, Lebanon, N.H.
Lean construction practices were employed throughout to ensure the cost-effective quality construction and project delivery.
The project entailed installation of the hotel’s primary power system, bringing a 1600A – 480/277V electrical service to the building, as well as installing the facility’s 250KW rooftop emergency generator.
For life safety, the Envoy is equipped with a new, addressable Simplex Grinnell fire alarm system. The boutique hotel’s custom interior lighting package is controlled via an advanced Lutron Dimming System in the lobby and also on the rooftop deck bar and restaurant.
The NECA contractor also installed exterior lighting, including façade lighting and city of Boston lighting poles. In addition, emergency phone/egress systems in elevator lobbies were installed.
Maiuri’s electrical crew, comprised of 10 IBEW Local 103 electricians, was headed by project manager Thomas Buckley and foreman John Downing.
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The Envoy’s extremely tight 20,000sf site, which serves as the gateway to Seaport Square, presented significant logistical challenges adeptly met by Maiuri and the entire construction team. Located across from the Moakley Federal Courthouse, the project faced ongoing road closures which impacted daily material deliveries, and despite these challenges the NECA Boston contractor completed construction of the 18-month project as scheduled, in May 2015. .
“The Lee Kennedy project team, headed by Sr. PM Dan Lebiedz and PM Marc Buchan, provided a great, cooperative working environment, which was critical to Mauiri Electric’s ability to meet the many logistical challenges and was key to the project’s success,” said PM Buckley.
Maiuri Electrical also provided fit-out of the hotel’s new ground level 4,000 square-foot restaurant, Outlook Kitchen + Bar, which opened September 15th.
The Envoy Hotel is a Marriott Signature Series property.
