The City of Boston recently revised CAL133, a fire code dealing with upholstered furniture. Now, CAL133 does not apply to business or mercantile occupancies if they are fully sprinkled and protects, even if they have residential occupancy in upper floors. Assembly use groups in a business use group must comply with CAL133.
To learn more about the revised code, the City of Boston has provided a detailed document, Regulation of Upholstered Furniture: BFD IX-10.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.