At this year’s annual Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) International Conference, Roger Duffy, SOM Design Partner, and Chris McCready, SOM Managing Director, will present the University Center at The New School. The bold urban landmark, located in Greenwich Village, opened this January. The session, titled “The Inside-Out, Diagonal Campus at The New School,” … Continued
On May 21, Managing Director of SOM Christopher McCready and Director of its Education Lab, will participate in a discussion on net-zero energy educational buildings in New York City. Hosted at the Center for Architecture, the event will spotlight SOM’s P.S.62, the first net-zero energy school in New York City and the Northeastern United States. The building … Continued
On November 5, 2015, ?a ceremony at Denver Union Station marked the project’s national recognition in the 2015 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS2) awards program. ?Charles Besjak, Director of Structural Engineering in SOM’s New York office, attended the event to accept the award, alongside members of the project team representing Trammell Crow Company, Kiewit, Schuff Steel, and LPR Construction. Given annually … Continued
The SOM-designed Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has received an Outstanding Project Award from the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA). Charles Besjak, SOM Director of Structural Engineering, and Preetam Biswas, SOM Associate Director of Structural Engineering, accepted the award on September 19, 2014, at a ceremony in New Orleans. Located in … Continued
The American Society of Civil Engineers Metropolitan Section Infrastructure Group and Polytechnic Institute of New York University Department of Civil Engineering present “New Trends in Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit,” a technical seminar and exhibition being held at NYU POLY’s Metrotech campus. Over the course of the two-day event, practicing structural engineers and educators will discuss … Continued
In March, SOM Director Charles Besjak will be among the presenters at the Value of Design 2014 Symposium in the Netherlands. The theme of this year’s symposium is “from bits to buildings” and Besjak’s lecture will focus on the use of new technologies, such as parametric modeling, and how these tools can be used to … Continued
Charles Besjak, SOM Director of Structural Engineering, will present three papers at the American Society of Civil Engineers Structures Congress in April. Besjak will speak about three SOM buildings: Busan Lotte Town Tower, Pearl River Tower, and Shenzhen Shum-Yip Tower One. On Thursday, in a session titled “Integrated Design of Tall Buildings,” Besjak will discuss … Continued
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2016 Jury of Fellows has elevated two SOM Directors—Charles Besjak and Nicole Dosso—to its College of Fellows, a prestigious honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the profession. Founded in 1952, the Fellowship program is one of the highest honors the AIA can bestow upon a member. Election to … Continued
San Francisco-based architect Carrie Byles is a partner at global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, where she specializes in sustainable, research-based design. She recently completed laboratory projects at Harvard and Rice University, both collaborative environments designed to bring advanced scientific research and technology into the design fold.
On September 23, SOM Partner Carrie Byles will participate in a panel discussion about the UCSF Sandler Neurosciences Center at the P3 Summit, where experts will share best practices related to public-private partnerships (P3s). The state-of-the art facility in San Francisco, which houses several of the world’s leading neuroscience research programs, stands as the result … Continued