Ora Seaport Apartments

899 Congress St, Boston, MA, 02210

The Ora Seaport Apartments is a 13 story luxury apartment building located in the Seaport District Boston with a rooftop generator and a single level underground parking garage shared with the neighboring Hyatt Place. All switchgear (including equipment/elevator disconnects and bus plugs) and light fixtures were coordinated with sizes and clearances specified in cutsheets/per code. Light fixtures outside of grid ceilings were laid out on the slab utilizing the file exported from the Revit model onto the Trimble Total Station and and lasered up to the deck above to ensure fixtures were installed in coordinated locations. One bus duct riser serving the east portion of the building was coordinated only running horizontally on the 1st/Mezzanine levels until reaching the location it was coordinated to rise through the rest of the levels in the east electric rooms. The second run of bus duct was coordinated horizontally on 1st/Mezzanine and 2nd levels until reaching the location it was coordinated to rise through the rest of the levels in the east electric rooms. Slab openings for bus duct risers and pads for spring hangers were laid out prior to the pour with the Trimble. All power, FA, TD, and incoming utility conduits were coordinated throughout the building with risers in the electrical and Teledata closets on each floor. Conduit sleeves and slab openings below switchgear, stub ups for underground/in-slab MC cable feeding the islands in the units, and threaded rod anchors were coordinated and laid out with Trimble prior to the pour of each slab with the equipment pads being laid out with Trimble post pour. The bolts to secure the generator were laid out using the Trimble prior to equipment pad pours. The SER cables feeding the subpanels in each unit was coordinated in the ceiling of the hallway on each floor. All conduit/cabling racks were prefabricated per shop drawings generated as part of the coordination services. With Suffolk as the GC coordination of the Ora Seaport Apartments started in 2017 and was opened in 2020.