- Assembly including ecclesiastical, restaurant, theaters and fitness centers.
- Commercial including office and mercantile.
- Residential – single and multiple units, for affordable to luxury markets.
- Veterinary, scientific and educational facilities.
- Utility including storage, detention, motor vehicle repair, parking and manufacturing.
- Steel, concrete, wood, and masonry structure design.
- Adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of old structures.
- Design with archaic materials including: plaster and lath, balloon framing, cast iron, thatch.
- Design with retained extant or recycled materials.
- Photo-voltaic electric generation; ground sourced geothermal heat pump integration
- Energy conservation retrofit, application of “green” and LEED standards.
Special professional services:
- Programming space needs and relationships
- Construction budget analysis
- Pre-design services.
- Preservation of historic sites and structures.
- Historic site tax credit research and support documents.
- Old building condition reports, energy and accessibility retrofit.
- Site master plans for property development, site plan approval including drainage, soils, and traffic impact and representation before agencies and committees.
- Variance relief application for zoning code and compliance.
- Variance relief application for building code and compliance.
- Building safety analysis under archaic codes.
Special design services:
- Site specific furniture, casework, paneling, shelving and other fittings of custom function.
- Signage, logos, tourist oriented signage, directory sign programs.
- And other unique and special purpose site elements.
Special consulting services:
- On-site architect from the simple to the most complex multi-story non-combustible construction. Coordination of and collaboration with: mechanical, electrical, fire suppression and civil engineering consultants; landscape and other collaborating architects; technical firms providing geologic analysis, soil testing and hazardous material analysis and abatement.
- Representation before agencies: community planning, zoning boards; Dutchess County Departments of Planning and Health and NYS Building Codes Division; NYS Parks and Historic Preservation Office, Condominium, Division of Housing and Community Renewal and Dormitory Association.
- Financial industry facilitation FHA/HUD certification and problem solving.
Other abilities:
- Effective communication of architectural concepts to all levels of technical understanding.
- Experience in the delivery of projects requiring no interruption to occupancy, existing conditions or finishes and where facilities must be protected to allow their efficient use.
- Able to serve the client’s need when no general contractor is tasked; scheduling or defining work, prepare material purchase orders, project close out documents, review and approval of payment requisitions and certificates of substantial completion.
