Yawkey Center for Cancer Care

CLIENT: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

LOCATION: 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 

PROJECT PARTNERS: Walsh Brothers, Inc.

PROJECT SIZE: $30 million electrical construction

PROJECT MANAGER: E.G.S. Joe Carey & LCN Bob Bennett

COMPLETED: 2011

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The project included shell and core electrical installations as well as electrical fit-out: primary and emergency power, fire alarm, lighting and lighting control, and security systems for the tower building and its 7-story below-grade parking facility. The NECA firm also provided temporary power to the site in the project’s earliest phase.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:

  • 275,000 sq/ft
  • More than 7,000 light fixtures
  • Primary power: 15KV switchgear service feeding four 13,800V transformers and two main-tie-main double-ended 480V substations
  • Approximately 1 million feet of copper cable and 7,000 feet of fiber optic cable (144-strand, 12-strand and 24-strand)