High-Rise Commercial

1 million square foot, 40-story retail and commercial office building located at 55th Street and 8th Avenue in NYC.  E-J’s scope of supply encompasses all facets requisite of a modern core and shell commercial high-rise project.  This includes comprehensive 5- 6000A main entrance service line-ups, a 2500kw Emergency Generator with associated building-wide emergency power distribution including a 2000A Emergency Bus Riser, full core lighting, a Class E Fire Alarm System, three staggered 4000A Bus Duct Risers, a Certified Master Label Lightning Protection System, comprehensive Telecom Pathway Backbone infrastructure, grounding and complete Main Building Mechanical Power, and temporary light and power. Installation also included the installation of a fully automated base-building lobby lighting dimming system.

The recently completed 11 Times Square building represents an additional 1.1 million square foot of commercial office and retail space in heart of the Times Square District.  Located on the corner of 42^nd Street and 8^th Avenue and rising 40 stories, this marquee commercial office project also includes more than 55,000 Square feet of prime retail space.  The Project Sponsors retained E-J at the early stages of the foundation work to engineer and install extremely complex underground power and communication conduit systems.  E-J’s scope of supply encompassed all facets requisite of a modern core and shell commercial high rise project including comprehensive Temporary Light & Power, five (5) 6000A Main Entrance Service line-ups, a 1500kw Emergency Generator with associated building wide emergency power distribution, full Core Lighting, a Class E Fire Alarm System, four (4) staggered 4000A Bus Duct Risers, a Certified Master Label Lightning Protection System, comprehensive Telecom Pathway Backbone infrastructure, Grounding and complete Main Building Mechanical Power.  Additionally, E-J provided and installed a fully automated base building lobby lighting dimming system.  E-J was an integral member of a construction team that delivered this LEED© Certified Project on time and under budget in one of the most turbulent eras of New York City commercial development and construction.

This 30-story, 350,000-square-foot speculative commercial office building is located in the heart of midtown Manhattan featuring between 11,500 and 16,500 square feet of tenant space, a tenant health club, private dining room, golf simulator and the only swimming pool in a Manhattan commercial office building.  Striving to receive a LEED® Gold certification, some green features of the building include providing four times more filtered natural air to working spaces than required by code and floor-to-ceiling, low-e windows, reflective roof surfaces, plus fresh air louvers that are waterproof.  E-J’s electrical services consist of the installation of 3-Con Ed 465 volt network compartments supporting 2-6000 Amp 465 volt distribution boards and 2-1,250 kilowatt emergency generators located on the 30th floor and the roof. The building power distribution is accomplished via 2-30 story bus duct systems; a 2500 amp duct for building services and a dedicated 1250 amp duct dedicated to tenant use via an emergency generator for critical loads as well as a Life Safety System consisting of a Class E addressable Fire Alarm System.

New 1.54 million sq. foot 52-story Hi-Rise project consisting of (3) units: the retail space about 20,000 square feet, the commercial office space about 600,000 square feet, and the NY Times headquarters about 845,000 square feet. The balance of the 75,000 square feet were common areas. There is extensive outside lighting of the tower portion performed and ornamental screening around the tower, as well as a 300 foot mast for communications systems. In addition, there will be (2) 750kW natural gas cogeneration sets. They will run in parallel for a total capacity of 1500kW. This power will be used as the primary power plant with utility (ConEd) power as a “peaking” unit for the NY Times portion of the building. Through a series of automatic transfer switches, this cogeneration power can be isolated or integrated with the building’s power network.

Installed all power, lighting and communication systems for the company’s new 37-story office tower at 550 Madison Avenue. Systems included fire alarm, sound systems, security and emergency power.

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel is a 5-Star hotel consisting of 251 rooms, located at Columbus Circle within the Time Warner building. Work consisted of electrical installation for the 20 floor building including a restaurant, a sky lobby, a spa, swimming pool, three kitchens, and a Grand Ballroom.

New 11-story, 137,000 sq. foot building on southwest corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 76th Street. The new site includes everything from a nursery school, to a senior center, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, exercise facilities, auditorium, banquet facilities, library, photography lab, culinary arts center, teen center and a spiritual contemplation area. The building has eight above ground floors and three levels below ground.

The completion of this 55-story hotel, consisting of 150 hotel suites, two restaurants and one parking facility which E-J Electric was awarded after original contractor could not fulfill their obligation to builders. E-J was awarded the project at ten percent electrical completion and worked to meet the demands of a high-rise construction project.

23-story building consulate headquarters where we installed power, communications, fire alarm, security, CCTV systems and an emergency 150kW generator. Project required finite coordination to fit all systems into an extremely tight building foot print.