The Newbry
501 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
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501 Boylston Street, also known as The Newbry, is located in Bostons historic Back Bay District. Built in 1940 as the headquarters of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, The Newbry is located on Boylston, Newbury and Clarendon Streets. Since 2007 the building has been owned by TIAA-CREF. The building is comprised of 467,375 square feet of office space located on the upper eight levels, as well as 140,049 square feet of retail space located on the lower two floors and in the basement, for a total of 607,424 square feet.
The buildings historic Art Deco design mixes fluently with its high ceilings and oversized windows providing all office levels exceptional natural light and dramatic views of Bostons Financial District, the Back Bay, and the Charles River. The Newbry is home to office tenants, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Pearson Education. Current retail tenants include Borders, Filenes Basement, H&M, Victorias Secret, Guess?, Citibank, Sunglass Hut, and Boston Sports Club.
In recent years the building has undergone major improvements such as restoration to the main lobby walls and ceiling, creating a more inviting atmosphere for visitors at both the Boylston and Newbury Street entrances. By refurbishing the lobbys coffered ceiling appearance The Newbry went back in time to reestablish its grand entrance as a remarkable focal point of the buildings interior.
In addition, the expansion of the retail component created an effective arrangement of one and two story shops with new storefronts and landscaping. This design, made possible by the buildings previous structural expansion to the edge of both Newbury and Clarendon Streets, helps better link this considerable retail portion with the Back Bays abundant offering of fashion, dining, and art galleries.
Additional upgrades have recently been made to the office HVAC system, which consists of air systems with on-floor air handlers and VAV boxes. The fans have all been fitted out with variable frequency drives for energy efficiency. This system gives greater flexibility and control in the tenant office areas which is consistent with a Class A office buildings.
The existing retail cooling tower has been converted to a supplemental cooling tower for office tenants. A new 800T cooling tower was recently installed to serve the retail tenant heat pumps. The tenants are provided with hot water for heating from the building boilers and condenser water from the cooling tower. All pumps for this new system are fitted with variable frequency drives for energy efficiency.
The existing Honeywell pneumatic system has been converted to a Siemens DDC system for all critical and new equipment. This new system allows for greater optimization of the building chiller plant and features a paging system to alert building engineering when there are pieces of equipment that need to be serviced.
Each tenant is tied into the bulk main of the buildings sprinkler system via a connection with their own flow valve assembly. By having each tenant on their own individual system, the building engineers and emergency personnel can better respond to an emergency by knowing the location of an incident with more accuracy. Having the systems on individual valves also allows for easier maintenance and testing.
The fire alarm system for the retail spaces provides tenants with a retail transponder cabinet, which gives the tenants additional point, booster and amplification capability. The arrangement is a fully addressable system. A sub-meter network is in place to facilitate the proper allocation of electrical, hot water, condenser water, chilled water, domestic water and steam usage in the building for each of the office and retail tenants.
As awareness and implementation of energy conservation methods gain momentum our building management and staff continually take advantage of effective educational and training opportunities. The goal of our staff is to educate ourselves so we can realize energy efficiency opportunities within the building benefiting tenants and ownership. Through CBREs partnership with BOMA, management personnel and the chief building engineer participate in the BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP) through the use of weekly modules provided by CBREs employee website. Building engineers are trained on Siemens Apogee Building Automation System for effective use and control of the system.
Communications:
Recipient of the Energy Star Award for 2005, 2007, and 2009.
2008 Renovated Building of the Year winner as voted on by BOMA Boston.
2009 Historical Building of the Year winner as voted on by BOMA Boston.
Testimonial:
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Please note: Narrative information in this profile has been provided by TIAA-CREF or a representative of this facility. Other building information was verified and submitted to EPA at the time of application. Building energy performance, operating characteristics, and ownership/management may be subject to change over time.
Building Owner:*
TIAA-CREF
Property Manager:*
CBRE-NE
Year(s) Labeled (Rating):
2012 (77)
2011 (76)
2010 (79)
2009 (75)
2007 (75)
2005 (76)
Facility Type: Office
Total Floorspace: 682117 sf
Year Constructed: 1940
Contract Type: None
Technologies Used:
| Stage 1-Recommissioning |
| Stage 2-Lighting |
| Stage 3-Load Reductions |
| Stage 4-Fan Systems |
| Stage 5-Heating and Cooling Plant |
| Other Technologies/Strategies |
For More Info:
Kevin Huther
Assistant Property Manager
Boston,
MA
02116
617-247-3676
kevin.huther@cbre-ne.com