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Syska Hennessy key staff members regularly contribute technical articles on a variety of topics to leading industry publications. In addition, Syska Hennessy projects are often the recipient of industry awards for excellence in design and construction. You may contact any number of our experts for more information.

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Engineered Systems
Rehab on the Fast Track
See how the Syska project team worked swiftly on-site to bring dehumidification, displacement ventilation, and other HVAC elements into line to support a mulifaceted that truly supports the troops.
appeared in Engineered Systems

GreenSource
Santa Monica Library
A City Turns the Page:The city of Santa Monica goes green with its high-performance main public library.
appeared in GreenSource

Government Computer News
Throwing Off Heat
In the last few years, data power consumption per square foot has skyrocketed due to increasing cooling capacity challenges in data centers. This article discusses solutions and following industry best practices to mitigate the problems.
appeared in Government Computer News

Plumbing Systems & Design
Nanotechnology Plumbing Design
Learn the basics of designing the plumbing systems for a nanotech laboratory.
appeared in Plumbing Systems & Design

Electrical Contractor
U.S. Patent Office Breaks the Mold
Power Solutions and Sachs Electric earn seal of approval with efficient new systems
appeared in Electrical Contractor

SpaceRef.com
NASA Awards California Construction Services Contracts
NASA has selected six companies to provide construction services at NASA's Ames Research Center and Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif.
appeared in SpaceRef.com

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Communicating When There is No Time to Lose
A new emphasis on communication during emergencies has led to fresh thinking about mass notification systems
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Archi-Tech
Force of Nature
Earth's elements are cornerstone of EPA's new Denver digs
appeared in Archi-Tech

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Chilled Beam Ceiling Systems Promise Energy, Maintenance Savings
While chilled beam technology has been used in commercial space in Europe for more than a decade, it is just beginning to take root in the U.S.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

SearchDataCenter.com
Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Hinge On the Right Philosophy
Key strategies for ensuring that your business operations are fully reliable and adequately prepared for any potential threats to uptime.
appeared in SearchDataCenter.com

Real Estate Weekly
GOING BEYOND LEED: Engineering today’s green buildings into tomorrow’s climate-responsible projects
LEED guidelines are accepted so widely today that the USGBC and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) are writing a standard to be adopted into the International Building Code. So, what’s next? What is the next level of building green?
appeared in Real Estate Weekly

Environmental Design + Construction
New Public Library Confirms Santa Monica’s Commitment to Sustainability
The City of Santa Monica's new public library likely contributed to a recent report of a 5.7 percent decrease in its Ecological Footprint, an index that tracks a location’s use of the earth’s resources in terms of water and land area.
appeared in Environmental Design + Construction

Building Design & Construction
Silver Award: Rehabilitation Center Rebuilds Wounded War Heroes
The Center for the Intrepid provides hope for injured veterans, as well as important research into the rehabilitation of modern war injuries.
appeared in Building Design & Construction

Engineered Systems
When Critical Meets Green
The federal government has called upon the EPA to initiate a study of the power consumption of facilities by passing HR-5646 during the 109th Congress. The study will fall under the auspices of the EPA’s “Energy Star” program.
appeared in Engineered Systems

Earth Times
GSA Design Excellence Awards Honor 18 Projects
Exemplary work in public design took center stage today as the U.S. General Services Administration honored 18 projects for excellence during its Design Awards ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
appeared in Earth Times

Real Estate Journal
Optimizing Security and Life/Safety for Commercial High-Rise Buildings
Given the events of 9/11, it only makes sense that managers of high-rise office buildings would be particularly interested in doing everything possible to protect their building tenants.
appeared in Real Estate Journal

Northeast Real Estate Business
GREEN DESIGN: THE NEW STANDARD
Why your next project should be green.
appeared in Northeast Real Estate Business

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Top Grade for USDA
State-of-the-art life safety systems are a key part of a major upgrade for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's headquarters complex.
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

The Data Center Journal
Syska Hennessy Forms Green Critical Facilities Committee (Green CF)
Being industry leaders in the design and construction of Critical Facilities and Sustainable and High Performance Building Technology, we recognize the need to integrate these practices and look beyond traditional design.
appeared in The Data Center Journal

Real Estate Journal
Integrated Technologies Provide an Enhanced Approach to Building Security
Integrated systems bring all building security data together into one place. This information can include not only who enters and exits, but where it occurs.
appeared in Real Estate Journal

Buildings.com
USPTO Makes Its Mark with Consolidation
Citation of Excellence in Buildings’ New Construction Awards 2006: U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Headquarters, Alexandria, VA, submitted by Syska Hennessy Group Inc.
appeared in Buildings.com

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Flexible Design Can Improve Fire Safety
An alternative to prescriptive building codes, performance-based designs are tailored for specific facilities
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

The Data Center Journal
Syska Hennessy: Interview with CEO, John Magliano
Today, we find plenty of activity occurring as organizations find it necessary to upgrade their reliability expand or consolidate. In the middle of this activity has been Syska Hennessy’s critical facility group a highly respected consulting and design/build firm since it was founded in 1928.
appeared in The Data Center Journal

Real Estate Weekly
Integrated Technologies Enhance Building Security
Advances in security technologies are enabling facilities to implement more effective security strategies at a lower cost…
appeared in Real Estate Weekly

Real Estate Journal
Meeting the Requirements of Local Law 26
It is about people not buildings.
appeared in Real Estate Journal

Building Design & Construction
Rehabilitation Center for Wounded Veterans Taking Shape at Fort Sam Houston
SmithGroup has designed the Center for the Intrepid's National Armed Forces Physical Rehabilitation Center at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The four-story, 65,000-sf center will provide patients with severe extremity injuries, amputations, and burns sustained during service in Iraq the opportunity to regain their pre-injury abilities.
appeared in Building Design & Construction

Environmental Design + Construction
Studio: A “Model Approach” to Sustainable Design
Working with the architects, the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership and Opus Northwest LLC, Los Angeles-based Syska Hennessy Group performed energy simulations to determine the optimal site orientation and massing of the building to reduce energy consumption and capture daylight for quality of life benefits, as well as the architectural aesthetic of the building envelope.
appeared in Environmental Design + Construction

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Smart Moves
Implementing a single-card access control system can streamline security system management.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Engineered Systems
Trademark Design
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office complex in Alexandria, VA, includes 2.5 million sq ft of space in five- to 10-story buildings.
appeared in Engineered Systems

Journal of Property Management
Building For Defense
Developers and owners design properties to minimize loss in event of terrorist attacks
appeared in Journal of Property Management

Real Estate Journal
Security Considerations for Today's Facilities
Security planning has evolved into a business necessity, an essential requirement of any commercial real estate development. Corporate tenants are not only concerned with the standard security issues – safety for their offices and people -- they must now worry about creating highly secure environments for their IT operations, data centers and critical facilities.
appeared in Real Estate Journal

Interior Design
Santa Monica Library Seeks LEED® Silver
The two-story building has over three levels of underground parking.
appeared in Interior Design

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Taking Security To the Next Level
With increasing focus on real-world concerns, a broad business perspective on risk and response is needed.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
New Codes Aim For Safer High-Rises
Chicago and New York prepare to comply with new rules, including expanded requirements for sprinklers
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
BAS/EMS: Performance-based system specs spell success.
With faster hardware, more sophisticated software, Internet access and open protocols, building automation systems promise a range of benefits that includes improvements in comfort, control, flexibility, operating costs and productivity.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
CBR Threats May Demand Higher Levels of Security
Choices about HVAC design, security procedures and hardware, and architecture can help minimize the harm if an attack were to occur.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Today's Facility Manager
SHOWCASE: USDA Choice
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) South Building is undergoing a massive renewal.
appeared in Today's Facility Manager

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
NYC Courthouse Gets a Lift
Complex Manhattan civil court renovation requires a total team effort to pull off M/E reconstruction amid ongoing judicial operations.
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

Engineered Systems
Optimization Of Air-Handling Systems For Federal Buildings
The GSA commissioned a study to evaluate the performance of variuos AHU systems in federal buildings. Here are their findings.
appeared in Engineered Systems

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Experts Talk About Key Security Issues in Planning, Technology and Terrorism
Security gets a lot of ink in newspapers and magazines, but it can be hard for facility executives to get behind the headlines. This report takes a close look at four questions that illustrate the diversity of security challenges — within the organization, nationally and internationally.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Engineering News-Record
Pentagon Priming the Pump For the Flow of Cash to Iraq
Prospects are improving for firms angling for U.S. government funded Iraq reconstruction work. Syska Hennessy is part of one of ten teams selected to compete for forthcoming U.S. Central Command task orders.
appeared in Engineering News-Record

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Zoned Security: A New Solution
In the face of varied threats, a zoned approach can protect the facility from the inside out.
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet
Homeland Security Hits Home
How war in Iraq and a Code Orange alert brought tighter facility security
appeared in Building Operating Management/FacilitiesNet

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
What's Changed in Building Design Since 9/11?
On the 10-year anniversary of the first attack on World Trade Center, a group of designers, builders and code officials met to discuss what has changed for those who design, construct and operate buildings since September 11.
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

The Military Engineer
Guarding Against "ChemBio" Attack
A building's vulnerabilities to chemical and biological agents, and the means to reduce them, depend on architectural and engineering features and sound operational security systems.
appeared in The Military Engineer

New York Daily News
Firms' silver-and-gold lining
As many New York businesses brace for even tougher times with the nation at war, a handful of local companies is reaping big profits from Operation Iraqi Freedom.
appeared in New York Daily News

Washington Business Journal
GSA chooses HQ team, narrows courthouse list
GSA selects Syska Hennessy Team from field of 28 teams to complete renovations to GSA Headquarters Building…
appeared in Washington Business Journal

Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Hot Sun, Cold Justice
Syska helps cool U.S. Courthouse in New York with innovative approach
appeared in Consulting-Specifying Engineer

Engineered Systems
Bent-watertube design makes heating system shipshape
Greater reliability, maximized safety, and increased automation to reduce operating and maintenance costs are some of the desires of the Navy for their Great Lakes Naval Training Center boiler system.
appeared in Engineered Systems

Engineering News-Record
Chemical, Biological Threats Pose New Design Challenges
Many building owners and developers are demanding that design criteria for their projects include security master plans.
appeared in Engineering News-Record

Area Development
Business Strategies for the Worst-Case Scenario
six questions that every senior-level executive should ask when it comes to emergency preparedness - the answers could save your business
appeared in Area Development

Engineering News-Record
Damage Assessment - Focus Shifting to Scrutiny of Utilities of WTC-Area Buildings
MEP: attention is starting to focus on the conditions of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems in the affected buildings.
appeared in Engineering News-Record

Engineered Systems
A Court with Appeal
Planning a Government facility? Learn how Syska Hennessy used natural light to create an open feeling Federal Courthouse with enhanced energy efficiency...
appeared in Engineered Systems

Engineering News-Record
Pentagon Hires Engineer For Building Systems Assessment
Syska Hennessy Group Inc. has been contracted to perform a condition survey of the building systems serving Pentagon Wedges I and II.
appeared in Engineering News-Record


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