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Downtown Hotel - Two Roof CampaignsA hotel
A hotel
that never
closed.
Crown replaced the EPDM roof on a working downtown hotel opposite the Aquarium, phasing the work around guests and threading a new membrane through vents, HVAC curbs, and skylights.
- Location
- State Street, downtown Boston
- Building
- Occupied high-rise hotel
- Scope
- EPDM replacement, phased
- Relationship
- Two campaigns, same client
The ChallengeGuests inside,
Guests inside,
traffic
below.
A high-rise hotel in the middle of downtown Boston, full of guests, with the work happening several stories above one of the city's busiest streets.
Starting conditions
The existing membrane was crowded with penetrations - vents, HVAC units, skylights - and every one of them needed a flashing built for it, not approximated in the field.
The hotel stayed open the whole time. Staging, deliveries, and tear-off debris all had to move through a dense downtown block without taking the street or the lobby out of service.
The ApproachHow Crown
How Crown
built it.
Documented, sequenced, and largely self-performed. Here is how the work came together on site.
- 01
Plan the penetrations
Every vent, curb, and skylight was detailed before tear-off, so each one got a flashing designed for it rather than a field improvisation.
- 02
Phase around guests
The roof was replaced in sections, each phase timed to periods of lower guest activity, with noise-reducing methods used to keep the hotel quiet.
- 03
Work the urban site
Access and staging were planned around downtown traffic and pedestrian flow, with safety controls sized for work that high off the street.
- 04
Finish the building
Crown's first campaign here installed a new-construction rubber roof when the hotel was expanded by two stories. A later campaign replaced the remaining older section.
The ResultOne hotel,
One hotel,
one roof,
no
closures.
The Harborside Inn is covered end to end by roofs Crown installed, across two campaigns, without the hotel ever going offline.
ZeroNights closed
2Roof campaigns, one client
EPDMFull membrane replacement
- EPDM field replaced in phases while the hotel stayed open and operating.
- Vents, HVAC curbs, and skylights individually detailed and flashed.
- The expansion's new-construction rubber roof and the older section now run as one system.
- Energy efficiency improved alongside weather protection.
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