海角视频

400 Summer and 350 Summer

Boston, USA

Unlocked after a decade of development and $22bn of public investment, Boston鈥檚 Seaport District is now home to an ecosystem of more than 350 companies, from global leaders in technology and biotech, to ground-breaking start-ups.

海角视频 has been engaged to provide multidisciplinary consultancy across a broad range of services through multiple phases of the regeneration project.

Spanning between Congress Street and Summer Street in Boston, Massachusetts, 350 and 400 Summer Street are two 16 and 17-story research buildings built over a three-level parking garage.

We are providing MEP and fire protection engineering, low-voltage engineering (AV, IT, Security), sustainability consulting, energy analysis, and facades engineering.

The project is aspiring for LEED Platinum certification.

350 and 400 Summer Street are two 16 and 17-story research buildings built over a shared three-level parking garage.

The buildings are estimated to have a 40% energy reduction and 30% greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction compared to a code-compliant building.

Challenge

Our second project with WS Development in the Boston Seaport District, 400 Summer Street is a core and shell research building constructed for Foundation Medicine, Inc., a global genomic testing company.

The 16-floor, 630,000ft² tower also includes 30,000ft² of retail at the lower floors to support the mixed-use development by activating the streetscape.

海角视频 provided building services (MEP and fire protection) engineering, low-voltage engineering (AV, IT, Security), sustainability consulting, energy analysis, and facade engineering design, working with both Morris Adjmi as the design architect and Stantec as the architect of record.

The development was constructed in part on air rights over existing highway infrastructure, which created unique engineering challenges by requiring careful considerations around the integration of buildings services and facades engineering.

Our team is also supporting WS Development and the same design team with the adjacent 350 Summer building. This project is fully designed and permitted as a core and shell research facility. This 17-story, 430,000ft² tower will also include more than 20,000ft² of retail at the ground floor.

Solution

A key design focus for 400 Summer is the carbon impact of the new building. The project is expected to achieve LEED Platinum certification and our experts worked closely with various project stakeholders and the wider design team to develop and study a range of energy conservation measures (ECMs) to incorporate into the basis of design.

These include heat recovery ventilation units, chilled beams as a radiant-based heating and cooling system, and an optimized window-wall ratio to reduce peak heating and cooling loads while improving thermal comfort.

400 Summer was constructed with a high-performance, prefabricated and unitized curtain wall system that will reduce energy consumption to a third of the national average for similar laboratory buildings.

The 400 Summer project also included the construction of the Summer Steps, an iconic public gathering place located between 350 and 400 Summer Street that will also provide a major new pedestrian connection from Summer Street to Congress Street at the southern gateway of Harbor Way, leading to the edge of Boston Harbor.

Value

400 Summer Street was completed in 2024. Our broad multidisciplinary team of experts played key roles in enabling the realisation of the client鈥檚 vision for 400 Summer, which now stands at the southern gateway to Boston鈥檚 Seaport district.

The project exceeds all the energy targets set out by the City. It is estimated to have a 40% energy reduction and 30% greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction compared to a code-compliant building; this is in support of the City鈥檚 Article 37 process as well as the owner鈥檚 goals for energy use intensity (EUI) savings and GHG emissions reduction.