Flagpole installation inBoston, MA

Flagpoles in Boston

The commercial and institutional centre of New England: an office core, teaching hospitals and universities, and a Seaport built on fill and filling up with hotels and laboratory buildings. We cover Boston and the Suffolk County area, including Beacon Hill and Back Bay, the Financial District and Post Office Square, the Seaport and Fort Point, Faneuil Hall and the North End, Charlestown Navy Yard, the Longwood Medical Area and the Fenway.

Wind here. Boston sits in a dense urban and harbour-facing area, which works out to roughly 120 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Review comes before engineering in Boston. The Landmarks Commission covers city-designated property, and Beacon Hill and Back Bay each answer to an architectural commission of their own that has to approve anything visible from a public way before Inspectional Services will issue the permit. The ground is the second question. Back Bay, Bay Village, the South End and the Fenway are made ground, and the older buildings on them stand on wood piles that rot once the water table drops. That is what the Groundwater Conservation Overlay District exists to prevent, and inside it real digging becomes a designed detail rather than an auger hole. Downtown adds the part no map carries: the towers between Post Office Square and the waterfront send the wind down the street instead of over it, so a pole at the foot of one is sized for more than the mapped 120. And if the pole or its footing reaches the pavement, the Public Improvement Commission controls that ground, not the building owner.

Most of the people who call us from Boston are hotels and office towers, teaching hospitals and university buildings, city facilities and fire houses, churches and parish schools, veterans posts, and brownstone and condominium associations.