Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences to Open Spa

The Spa at Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans will open this week on April 20th. The spa facility is over 5k square feet and features 8 treatment rooms, a relaxation room, a steam room, and also locker rooms. They will offer massages, facials, wraps and treatments for skin, brows and eyelashes.

The Four Seasons in New Orleans first opened in August 2021, and they began accepting guest reservations in early September. In addition to the Spa the hotel has 341 rooms and suites, a fitness center, a rooftop pool, and 29k square feet of event space. The hotel also has two restaurants, Miss River and Chemin a la Mer, and five bars which includes The Chandelier Bar in the lobby.

Moses Engineers provided the Four Seasons Hotel with the following mechanical engineering features:

HVAC with Bi-Polar Ionization, Heat Refrigerant Recovery as well as specialized attention to airborne viruses requiring MERV 13 Filters in all return air systems
Hot & Cold Domestic Water Systems with multi-stage hi-rise pumping systems
Central Plant with Heating Hot and Chilled Water Systems
Domestic Water Distribution
Sanitary Waste using Sovent single pipe for both vent and waste

Moses Engineers also provided the Four Seasons Hotel with the following electrical engineering features:

Power throughout the residences
Lighting design
Fire alarm
Lighting Control System Integration

New Orleans CityBusiness — By: CityBusiness staff reports on April 8, 2022

Photo courtesy Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences

Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences is adding a spa to its array of amenities.
Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences to open spa | New Orleans CityBusiness

Former Oil & Gas Building Reopens as Canopy by Hilton Hotel

The former Oil & Gas Building at 1100 Tulane Ave has undergone a historic renovation to become the Canopy by Hilton Hotel. The Canopy Hotel offers 176 guest rooms, 1,700 square feet of meeting space, a fitness center, and a terraced outdoor patio. It also offers restaurant Ginger Roux and craft cocktail bar The Herbalist. Canopy by Hilton is a boutique brand that launched in 2014 designed to have an urban neighborhood vibe. They also focus on sustainability and are dog friendly.

MEP Services for Canopy by Hilton Provided by Moses Engineers

Moses Engineers provided the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for the building with a focus on sustainability and safety. The MEP design uses state of the art variable refrigerant flow, heat recovering technology, and a dedicated outside air system. This system substantially reuses the energy usage of the building through energy recovery, and it also maintains ventilation for occupants throughout the hotel. The plumbing system uses variable speed pumps with variable frequency drives. This ensures the hotel keeps adequate pressure while still minimizing energy usage. Moses’s design also includes condensing style water heaters to increase efficiency and reduce natural gas usage for the building’s water heating systems.

Safety & Sustainability Design Features

To ensure safety for all hotel occupants Moses Engineers also included a fire pump and sprinklers throughout the building’s design. A voice-evacuation fire alarm system used with an on-site Fire Command Center ensures that in the case of an emergency, hotel occupants will be notified and able to exit the building. Alarm sensors also monitor the refrigerant as an added safety measure in case a refrigerant leak would ever occur.

Moses Engineers also provided a building automation system to operate the building’s equipment in the most efficient manner. It also allows for incorporating programming that will reduce the overall energy usage of the hotel. The hotel has a modern electrical system with generator backup. The entire design complies with all applicable building codes and the brand standards of Canopy by Hilton. The building also uses energy efficient LED lighting and automatic lighting controls to lessen the electrical load.

Article by Andrew Valenti, Reporter. Posted on March 30, 2022

Canopy by Hilton, the newest hotel to join the downtown New Orleans market, has opened to guests. The historic renovation of the former Oil & Gas Building at 1100 Tulane Ave. offers 176 guest rooms that range from 300 square feet to 450 square feet and average around $250 per night.
Former Oil & Gas Building reopens as Canopy by Hilton hotel | New Orleans CityBusiness

Audubon Aquarium to be Upgraded in Riverfront Revamp

The Audubon Aquarium of the Americas is being upgraded with a new entrance and lobby area, a Butterfly Garden, and an Insectarium. In addition to these new features there will also be significant upgrades to the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, audiovisual and security systems.

Moses Engineers provided all of the electrical and mechanical engineering designs for adapting the building systems for the new Insectarium. The Insectarium features over 110 individual exhibits, two new large fish tanks, a new lobby and redesigned gift shop, and a new event space and lobby entrance. The mechanical designs included all of the HVAC, fire protection and plumbing systems. The electrical designs included all of the power, back of house lighting, fire alarm and special systems. Moses Engineers also coordinated the exhibit designs of C7 Architects and their lighting design consultant EOA with both the new and existing building systems.

Work continues on a $34 million renovation at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas – just one of several redevelopments at the foot of Canal Street where the Four Seasons Hotel opened last year, site prep for Caesars New Orleans is underway and upgrades to the Canal Street ferry terminal are ongoing.
Riverfront revamp includes $34M upgrade to Audubon Aquarium | New Orleans CityBusiness

MSJE Grabs National Honor

USA TODAY’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice travel awards honors The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in the “Best New Attraction” category. The MSJE opened in May 2021 here in New Orleans at 818 Howard Ave. Since opening it has become a popular tourist destination and an important education facility. It’s also a vibrant center for cultural exploration and understanding.

Moses Engineers provided the MSJE the design of their interior lighting, exhibit-theatre lighting, and lighting control systems. We also designed their power systems, standby power generator system, cooling/heating system, and interior plumbing systems. Moses Engineers also designed modifications to the existing building fire protection system and expand their previous fire alarm system.

The only Louisiana attraction and highest-ranking museum to be honored in the “Best New Attraction” category in USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice travel awards, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience may not be somewhere you’re familiar with yet as it just opened last May, but if it’s not, it should be. This week we chat with Executive Director Kenneth Hoffman about what is it about the museum that’s attracting all the attention.
Episode 88: City’s Newest Museum Grabs National Honor – The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience – Biz New Orleans

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